The following statement does not necessarily reflect the beliefs or feelings of all writers of the Gleaner: Rutgers-Camden Student-run newspaper

–Editors of the Gleaner

December 4, 2023

We, the undersigned faculty and staff members at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, strongly condemn the many recent expressions of antisemitism on our campuses and call on the entire community to reject antisemitism in all its forms. 

Following the horrific October 7, 2023, massacre of over 1200 people in Israel by Hamas, an acknowledged terrorist organization that has called for the violent destruction of the Jewish state and the deaths of Jews worldwide, there has been an alarming rise in antisemitic hate in America and around the globe. On college campuses and online Jews are being attacked, harassed, intimidated, and vilified. At Rutgers, an undergraduate has been arrested and charged after making a death threat against Israeli students at the AEPi (predominantly Jewish) fraternity. Student groups at Rutgers have called Hamas’s massacre of Jews in Israel “justified” and have organized events expressing support for its heinous actions. Posters calling attention to the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas in Gaza (now still over 120) are being torn down. Many Jews and Israelis on our campuses feel betrayed and alienated by colleagues and peers, who, consciously or not, repeat age-old antisemitic tropes, such as the notions that Jews are overly powerful, bloodthirsty, or vengeful. 

Muslim and Arab students have also reported being intimidated and harassed on campus. We condemn any expressions of anti-Arab or anti-Muslim sentiment, just as we condemn antisemitism, and affirm the rights of all members of the Rutgers community to walk their campuses without fear. 

We affirm our commitment to free and open exchange. In that spirit, we refuse to yield the public discourse at our university to those who promote dishonest narratives, engage in vilification and slander in lieu of reasoned debate, or support, excuse, or remain silent about terror or antisemitism. At its core, the mission of the university is to increase knowledge and understanding and to seek truth in all its complexity. Faculty and students must be able to talk to one another honestly and civilly about deeply challenging issues. 

We call upon members of the Rutgers community to stand against the murderous regime of Hamas and to recognize the right of both the Palestinian people and the Israeli people to live in safety within secure borders. We ask the university administration to create a comprehensive plan to address antisemitism specifically, and we ask our colleagues to commit to fostering open, honest inquiry, free of hate and demonization, on the Israeli-Hamas conflict and all other related issues at our university. 

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1. Ronnee A. Ades, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
2. Ari Afilalo, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School–Camden
3. Janet Alder, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 
4. Kara Amoratis, Director; Global Travel Safety and Security, Rutgers Global
5. Marc Aronson, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
6. Elena Ashkinadze, MS, CGC, Licensed Genetic Counselor, Supervision, Perinatal Genetics, Assistant Professor, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
7. Robyn Auerbach, Program Coordinator, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Department of Jewish Studies, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
8. Joshua Avondoglio, PhD, NJSP Clinician Supervisor, University Correctional Health Care, Rutgers–New Brunswick
9. Ross K. Baker, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers–New Brunswick
10. Risa Barisch, Manager of Arts Marketing, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers–New Brunswick
11. Tamar Barkay, Distinguished Professor Emerita, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
12. Haim Baruh, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
13. Hannah Batren, Program Coordinator for Assessment and Community Engagement, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick
14. Douglas Behan, DSW, LCSW, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, School of Social Work, Rutgers–New Brunswick
15. Bernard W. Bell, Professor of Law & Herbert Hannoch Scholar, Rutgers Law School–Newark
16. Alisa Belzer, Professor, Program Coordinator, EdM in Adult and Continuing Education, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick
17. Jason Belzer, Lecturer and Adjunct Professor, Global Sports Business, Rutgers–New Brunswick and Sports Law–Rutgers Law School
18. Azi Ben-Rephael, Associate Professor of Finance, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
19. Haym Benaroya, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
20. Barbara E. Bender, Senior Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies
21. Dan Benderly, Associate Director, New Ventures, Office for Research
22. Irina Benenson, Associate Professor, Division of Advanced Nursing Practice, Rutgers School of Nursing
23. Vera Bergelson, Distinguished Professor of Law and Robert E. Knowlton Scholar, Rutgers Law School–Newark
24. Hila Feldman Berger, Assistant Vice President for Research Regulatory Affairs, Office for Research 
25. Alison Bernstein, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
26. Donna Binstein, Conference Services Manager, Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center–New Brunswick
27. Elizabeth Binstein, Manager of Administrative Services, Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
28. Amy Bitterman, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law–Newark
29. Morit Blank, PhD, Rutgers Office of Organizational Leadership
30. Carey Bloom, Business Manager, Rutgers Institute for Nicotine and Tobacco Studies
31. Robert S. Boikess, Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers–New Brunswick
32. Galina Bolden, Professor of Communication, Rutgers–New Brunswick 
33. Kevin Bott, Director, Rutgers Arts Online, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers–New Brunswick
34. Emily Bosk, PhD, LMSW, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers–New Brunswick
35. William Bottega, Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
36. Marissa Botwinick, DO, MS, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
37. Tamar C. Brandler, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Pathology, Director, Division of Cytopathology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
38. Rebecca Brenowitz, Manager of Event Services, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers–New Brunswick
39. Kenneth J. Breslauer, Linus C. Pauling Distinguished University Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Founding Dean of Life Sciences, Founding Vice President for Health Science Partnerships, Advisory Board and Member, Rutgers Cancer Institute, Rutgers–New Brunswick
40. Ivan Brick, Dean’s Professor of Business, Finance and Economics, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
41. Cheryl Brown, RN, MS, APN-C, Nurse Practitioner, Rutgers University Student Health Services Bush-Livingston Health Center
42. Mojgan Bruzios, Pre-Award Manager, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
43. Joshua Bucher, MD, Associate Professor Department of Emergency Medicine, Rutgers RWJMS
44. Evan Cadoff, MD, Professor Emeritus, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
45. Ruifeng (Ray) Cao, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School  
46. Michael Carrier, Board of Governors Professor, Rutgers Law School
47. John W. Chambers II, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, Rutgers–New Brunswick
48. Stuart Charmé, Professor of Religion, Rutgers–Camden
49. Dalya Chefitz, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Faculty Advisor, Gold Human Honors Society, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 
50. Anat Chemerinski, Rutgers Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health, New Jersey Medical School
51. Lisa Pincus Clark, Collections Assistant, Digitization, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
52. Ryon J. Cobb, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Chancellor’s Scholar for Inclusive Excellence in Research on Black Americans, Rutgers–New Brunswick
53. Dr. Paul Cohen, Lecturer, Classical Saxophone, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers–New Brunswick
54. Rick I. Cohen, PhD, Director, High Resolution Microscopy Core, Director, Stem Cell Training Course and Research Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
55. Sheva Cohen-Weiss, PsyD, Assistant Teaching Professor, Assistant Director of Clinical Training, School Psychology Program, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
56. Aviva Cohn, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
57. Phillip B. Cohn, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Marketing, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
58. Peter Cole, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Embrace Kids Foundation Endowed Chair, Chief, Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Medical Director of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Cellular Therapies, RWJBarnabas Health, Director, New Jersey Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Research Center of Excellence (NJ PHORCE), Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
59. Adam Coopersmith MBA, Assistant Dean of Recruitment and Admissions, Office of Graduate Admissions, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
60. Ashley Conway, Assistant Teaching Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers – New Brunswick
61. Rebecca Cypess, Professor of Music and Faculty Affiliate in Jewish Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
62. Perry Dane, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
63. Morris A. Davis, PhD, Paul V. Profeta Chair of Real Estate and Professor of Finance and Economics,Academic Director, Rutgers Center for Real Estate, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
64. Tracy Davis, PhD, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
65. Edward P. DeMauro, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
66. Elin Diamond, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Department of English, Rutgers–New Brunswick
67. Kristin DiFoglio, Associate Dean, Development, Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick
68. Joseph L Dixon, Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
69. Claire Dominick, Special Education Teacher, Rutgers Day School, University Behavioral Healthcare
70. Richard Dool, DMgt, Teaching Professor, Graduate Program Director, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
71. Richard Drachtman, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Section Chief, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
72. David Dreyfus, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
73. Filip Dul, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
74. Ravit Golan Duncan, Professor of Learning Sciences, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick
75. Isaac Edery, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers–New Brunswick
76. Richard L. Edwards, PhD, Interim Dean, School of Social Work, Chancellor Emeritus, Distinguished University Professor, Rutgers–New Brunswick
77. Maurice J. Elias, Professor of Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
78. Ronald D. Ennis, MD, FASTRO, Professor and Vice Chair of Network Integration and Quality, Department of Radiation Oncology, Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and New Jersey Medical School
79. Richard Epstein, Associate Professor, Departments of English and Communication, Rutgers–Camden
80. Yakov M. Epstein, Professor Emeritus, Department Psychology, Former Director, Rutgers Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick
81. Evelyn S. Erenrich, Associate Dean, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
82. Paul G. Falkowski, Bennett L. Smith Professor of Business and Natural Resources and Board of Governors Professor, Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
83. Alexander Feldman, DO, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatal Perinatal Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
84. Lauren Feldman, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
85. Valeriya Feygina, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
86. Mitchell Fillet, Assistant Professor, Finance and Economics, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick 
87. Jennie Fine, Associate Director of Executive Education, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
88. Bonnie L. Firestein, PhD, Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers–New Brunswick
89. Daniel B. Fishman, Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
90. Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Rutgers–New Brunswick
91. Melissa Freedman, Director of Assessment and Accreditation, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick
92. Steven F. Friedell, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
93. Jeff Friedman, Professor of Dance Studies, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers–New Brunswick
94. Michele Frishberg, Program Coordinator, Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers–New Brunswick
95. Sandy Freund, Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School–Newark
96. Nathan Fried, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Biology, Rutgers–Camden
97. Joanna Fuhrman, Assistant Teaching Professor, English/Creative Writing, Rutgers–New Brunswick
98. Thomas Fulton, Professor, Department of English, Rutgers–New Brunswick
99. Marc Gartenberg, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
100. Ruthe A. Geardino, Program Support Specialist, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
101. Marina Gelfand, Assistant Teaching Professor and Internship Coordinator, Department of Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
102. Eugene C. Gentile, Director, Office of Career Management, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
103. Arnold Glass, Professor, Department of Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
104. Victor Glass, Professor of Professional Practice, Director and CRRI Scholar, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
105. Susan Goldberg, Health Tech, Rutgers Student Health Services, Rutgers–New Brunswick 
106. Carol S. Goldin, PhD, Senior Associate Dean for Planning and Assessment, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers Health
107. Gerald A. Goldin, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, Department of Physics and Astronomy (School of Arts and Sciences), Dept. of Learning and Teaching (Graduate School of Education), Rutgers–New Brunswick
108. Alan Goldman, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
109. Orna Goldman, Coordinator of Hebrew Language Program, Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
110. Michael S. Goldrich, MD, FACS, Clinical Professor of Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
111. Jay Goldring, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Professional Science Master’s Program, Division of Continuing Studies, Rutgers University
112. Sheldon Goldstein, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
113. Beth Goodman, MD FAAP, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Director, Pediatrics Clerkship and Director, Pediatric Bootcamp, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
114. Ellen P. Goodman, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School
115. James Goodman, Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers–Newark
116. Derek Gordon, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
117. Laura Gordon, Web Developer, School of Arts and Sciences–IT Office, Rutgers–New Brunswick
118. Adam J. Gormley, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
119. Laurie Granieri, Director of Communications, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers–New Brunswick
120. Barth Grant, Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers–New Brunswick
121. Stuart Green, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers Law School
122. Rebecca Greenbaum, Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers–New Brunswick
123. Ryan Greenbaum, Director, HRM Undergraduate Program, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers–New Brunswick
124. David Greenberg, Professor of History and Journalism, Rutgers–New Brunswick
125. Martha Greenblatt, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
126. Emily Greenfield, Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers–New Brunswick
127. Lauren Grodstein, Professor of English, Rutgers–Camden
128. Roman Groisberg, MD, Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology, Department of Melanoma and Sarcoma, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
129. Martin Grumet, PhD, Professor, Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers–New Brunswick
130. Anu Gupta, Assistant Dean, Global Academic Programs, Rutgers Global
131. Mark Guthner, Associate Professor of Financial Practice, Rutgers Business School–New Brunswick
132. Charles Haberl, Professor, African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers–New Brunswick
133. Liti Haramaty, Laboratory Researcher, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
134. Carol Hartman, Clerical Assistant, Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
135. Alexa Hepburn, Research Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
136. Florence Herman, Career Counseling Officer, Office of Career Management, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
137. Milton Heumann, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Rutgers–New Brunswick
138. Sharon Hellman, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School, Newark and New Brunswick
139. Thomas Hill, Assistant Dean of Recruitment and Admissions, Office of Graduate Admissions, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
140. Gal Hochman, Professor, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
141. Barbara Hoffman, Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School–Newark
142. Steven Horwitz, MD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Medical Director of Pediatric Transport RWJBarnabas
143. Brian J. Householder, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Communication, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
144. Shu C. Hsu, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Rutgers–New Brunswick
145. E. Goldblatt Hyatt, Associate Professor of Professional Practice for Reproductive Justice, School of Social Work, Rutgers–New Brunswick
146. Margaret Ingate, Associate Teaching Professor, Psychology Department, Rutgers–New Brunswick
147. Elizaveta Iofel, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
148. Sharon L. Ippolito, Business Assistant, Rutgers Global−Study Abroad, Rutgers–New Brunswick
149. Azriela Jaffe, Professor of Public Speaking, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick 
150. Miriam Jaffe, Associate Teaching Professor, Writing Program, English Department, Rutgers–New Brunswick 
151. Victor Shengkan Jin, PhD, Professor, Pharmacology Department, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
152. Lee Jussim, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Acting Chair, Anthropology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
153. Marc H. Kalan, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Marketing, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
154. Paul B. Kantor, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
155. Lisa S. Kaplowitz, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Finance, and Executive Director, Rutgers Center for Women in Business, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
156. Stephanie Karpoff, RN, MPH, OCN, Transplant Coordinator, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
157. Carla Katz, Esq., Associate Teaching Professor, Labor Studies and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers–New Brunswick
158. Vikki Katz, Emeritus Associate Professor, School of Communication, Rutgers–New Brunswick
159. Robert Kaufman, Distinguished Professor, Department of Political Science, Rutgers–New Brunswick
160. Terri R. Kurtzberg, Professor of Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick
161. Emrah Efe Khayyat, Associate Professor, African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Rutgers–New Brunswick
162. Michael K.-H. Kiessling, Professor of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers–New Brunswick; member of the faculty, John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics, Hvar, Croatia. 
163. Steven Kirshblum, MD, Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
164. David Kirshenbaum, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopedics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
165. James Kizhnerman, Instructional Technology Supervisor, College Ave., Digital Classroom Services, Rutgers–New Brunswick
166. Eric Klein, Associate Professor of Biology, Rutgers–Camden
167. Kevin Kolben, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Supply Chain, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
168. Alex Kontorovich, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
169. Anat Kreimer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Resident Faculty, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Rutgers University
170. Kenneth Kressel, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Rutgers–Newark
171. Melanie Kwestel, Lecturer, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
172. Kristen S. Labazzo, PhD, MBA, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University – New Brunswick
173. Farrokh Langdana, Professor and Director, Rutgers Executive MBA, Rutgers Business School
174. Jerome A. Langer, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
175. Noshir A. Langrana, Distinguished Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
176. Michael Lawton, Associate Professor, Department of Plant Biology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick 
177. Robert Lebeau, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
178. Joel Lebowitz, GW Hill Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Departments of Mathematics and Physics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
179. Paul Lehrer, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
180. Ellen Leibowitz, Music Undergraduate Advisor, MGSA Office of Advising and Student Success
181. Aliza Leiser, MD, FACOG, FACS, Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey 
182. Dafna Lemish, Distinguished Professor and Interim Dean, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
183. Emanuel D. Lerner, MD, Professor, Section Chief of Primary Care Services in PopQuIS, Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
184. John Leubsdorf, Distinguished Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
185. Jeffrey P. Levine, MD, MPH, Professor and Director of Reproductive & Gender Health Programs, Co-Director, Reproductive Health Care and Advocacy Fellowship, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Master Educators’ Guild, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
186. Steven J. Levin, MD, Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
187. Jordan Lieberman, MD, Central Regional Director of Psychiatry, Rutgers University Correctional Health Care, Clinical Instructor, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
188. Ray Leibman, Adjunct Professor, Marketing, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
189. Jennifer Lerner, MSN, APN, AGNP-C, AOCNP, Nurse Practitioner, Hematologic Malignancies Group, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
190. Jeffrey P. Levine, MD, MPH, Professor and Director of Reproductive & Gender Health Programs, Co-Director, Reproductive Health Care and Advocacy Fellowship, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Master Educators’ Guild, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
191. Amy Lewis, Associate Teaching Professor, Program Coordinator, Eary Childhood and Elementary Education, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick
192. Robert C. Like, MD, MS, Emeritus Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
193. Jacquelyn Litt, Professor,  Departments of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
194. Peter Lobel, Professor Emeritus, Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
195. John M. Longo, PhD, CFA, Distinguished Professor of Practice, Finance and Economics, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
196. Richard Lyons, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
197. Kiran Madura, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
198. Jenny Mandelbaum, Professor Emerita, Department of Communication, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
199. Michael Manhart, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
200. Paul Manowitz, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
201. David J. Margolis, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers–New Brunswick 
202. Rebecca Mark, Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
203. Naomi Marmorstein, Professor, Department of Psychology, Rutgers–Camden
204. Ian Marshall, MD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Chief, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
205. Matthew Matasar, MD, Professor of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and Chief of Blood Disorders, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
206. Conor McClenaghan, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Resident Faculty in the Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
207. Judith L. M. McCoyd, PhD, LCSW, Associate Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD and DSW) and Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers–New Brunswick
208. James McGlew, Professor and Chair, Department of Classics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
209. Benjamin Melamed, Distinguished Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
210. Flora McVay, Program Manager, Office of International Academic Support – Rutgers Global, Rutgers–New Brunswick
211. Stanley B. Messer, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
212. Jessica Methot, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, PhD Program Director, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University – New Brunswick
213. Peter Methot, Associate Dean, Executive Education and Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick
214. Steven Miller, Professor of Professional Practice, Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
215. Audrey Minden, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Biology, School of Pharmacy, Rutgers–New Brunswick
216. Gary Minkoff, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
217. Bruce Mizrach, Professor of Economics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
218. Scott Moerdler, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
219. Lesley Mandel Morrow, Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Literacy Development, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick
220. Joseph Naus, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
221. Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers–New Brunswick
222. Felicia Norott, Assistant Dean, Rutgers Business School-New Brunswick
223. Yehoshua November, Associate Teaching Professor of Creative Writing, Rutgers–New Brunswick
224. Karen Hundert Novick, Associate Dean, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
225. Roger Nussbaum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics,  Rutgers–New Brunswick
226. Rosa Oppenheim, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
227. Alicia Ostriker, Professor Emerita, Department of English, Rutgers–New Brunswick
228. Randi Ostrove, Lecturer, Department of Learning and Teaching, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick
229. Nicole Ostrowsky-Fabisch, MPH, CCRP, Director, Clinical Research Operations, Office of Human Research Services, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
230. Lori Palfreyman, DHSc, PA-C, Associate Professor, Program Director, Physician Assistant Program, Department of PA Studies and Practice, School of Health Professions, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
231. Dan Palmon, William J. von Minden Professor of Accounting, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
232. Oded Palmon, Professor Emeritus, Department of Finance and Economics, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
233. Daniel Panner, Lecturer, Department of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers–New Brunswick
234. Dennis Patterson, Board of Governors Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School–Camden
235. John V. Pavlik, Professor, Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
236. John Pintar, Professor, Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Rutgers – New Brunswick
237. Sarah Portilla, Program Coordinator, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers–New Brunswick
238. Jonathan Potter, Distinguished Professor, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
239. Mary Ellen Presa, Business Specialist, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
240. Barry V. Qualls, University Professor of English Emeritus, Rutgers–New Brunswick
241. Samuel Rabinowitz, Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, Area Head-HR/OB/MKT, Rutgers School of Business–Camden, Faculty Representative to the Rutgers–Camden Board of Directors
242. Arnold B. Rabson, MD, Professor and Director, The Child Health Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
243. Ilya Raskin, Distinguished Professor, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick, President, Global Institute for BioExploration (GIBEX)
244. Michal Raucher, Associate Professor, Department of Jewish Studies Rutgers University New Brunswick
245. Steven M. Reich, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
246. Gary A. Rendsburg, Distinguished Professor, Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History, Departments of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers–New Brunswick
247. Steven Richman, Professor, Professional Science Masters Department, Rutgers School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
248. Michael Aaron Rockland, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
249. Todd Rosen, MD, Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
250. Gilah Rosenberg, Athletic Academic Advisor, Academic Services for Student-Athletes
251. Helane S. Rosenberg, Rutgers University, Associate Professor of Creative Arts Education, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers–New Brunswick
252. Joseph G. Rosenstein, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
253. Abbe Rosenthal, MA, PCC, DYL Coach, Assistant Director, Executive Coach, Instructor, Rutgers Professional Science Master’s Program, Rutgers – New Brunswick
254. Yair Rosenthal, Distinguished professor, Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
255. Monica Roth, Professor, Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
256. Loren W. Runnels, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
257. Sari Ruskin, Teaching Instructor, Theater Department, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers–New Brunswick
258. Joshua Salamon, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Mathematics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
259. Elie Salomon, Administrative Assistant, Center for Mathematical Sciences Research, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
260. Cynthia Saltzman, Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers–Camden
261. Hal Salzman, Professor, E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, J.J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers–New Brunswick
262. Benjamin Adam Samuels, PhD, Associate Professor, Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience Area Coordinator, Department of Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
263. Louis Sass, Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University
264. Mark V. Sauer, MD, MS, Professor and Chair, Senior Associate Dean for Women’s Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
265. Robyn Schafer, Assistant Professor, Advanced Nursing Practice, School of Nursing, Rutgers–Newark; Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 
266. Lee Ann Schein, PhD, ACUE, Chairman, Preclerkship Course Director Subcommittee, Preclerkship Course/Block Director, Foundations in Medical Sciences, Program Director, Medical Physics Certificate Program, Course Director, MBS Program, Department of Pharmacology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 
267. Jorge Reina Schement, Emeritus Vice Chancellor, Dean, Distinguished Professor of Communications Policy, Affiliated Faculty, American Studies and Latino Studies, Department of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
268. Devora S. Schiff, RTS III, Radiation Oncology Laboratory Manager, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
269. Rene Schloss, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
270. Ethan D. Schoolman, Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
271. Steven M., Schonfeld, MD, Clinical Professor of Radiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
272. Sergei Schreider, Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Vice Chair, Department of Management Science and Information Systems, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
273. Rosario Schroeder, Program Coordinator, Department of French, Rutgers–New Brunswick
274. Sydell Ruth Schulman, Associate Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
275. Benjamin Schuster, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
276. Marcy Schwartz, Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers–New Brunswick
277. Stacy Smollin Schwartz, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Department of Marketing, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
278. Susan J. Schurman, Distinguished Professor, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers–New Brunswick
279. Abe Schwartzbard, Lecturer and Adjunct Professor of Marketing, Rutgers Business School–New Brunswick
280. Tracy E. Scott, PhD, Special Projects Coordinator, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences-New Brunswick/Piscataway
281. Elena Segal, Business Specialist, Institutional Planning and Operations
282. Jeff Segal, Psy.D., Visiting Clinical Supervisor, Center for Psychological Services, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
283. Daniel Shain, Professor, Biology Department, Rutgers–Camden
284. Shauna Lani Shames, Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers–Camden
285. Andrew Shankman, Professor of History, Rutgers–Camden
286. Matthew A. Shapiro, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
287. David J. Shernoff, Director, Center for Mathematics, Science, and Computer Education, and Associate Professor, Dept. of School Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
288. Elisa Shernoff, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
289. Robert Sherrell, Professor, Departments of Marine and Coastal Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences
290. Noa’a Shimoni, MD MPH, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
291. George Shoane, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
292. Steven Shoen, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
293. Michelle Shostack, Associate Dean and Director, Educational Opportunity Fund Program, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
294. Hannah Aura Shoval MD, Clinical Associate Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
295. Alyssa Siegel, Program Administrator, Department of Radiation Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
296. Jane Siegel, Professor of Criminal Justice, Rutgers–Camden
297. Phyllis Siegel, Associate Professor, Management and Global Business, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
298. Matthew Sills, Professor of Professional Practice, Professional Science Master’s Program, School of Graduate Studies, Rutgers–New Brunswick
299. Deborah Silver, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
300. Cassandra Simmel, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor & Director, PhD Program, School of Social Work, Rutgers–New Brunswick
301. Jim Simon, Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology, Director, New Use Agriculture and Natural Plant Products Program (NUANPP), Director, Center for Agricultural Food Ecosystems (RUCAFE), The New Jersey Institute of Food, Nutrition & Health, Co-Director, Center for Sensory Sciences and Innovation (CSSI), School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
302. Mitchell Simon, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of General Diagnostic Radiology and the Section of Pediatric Radiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
303. Nancy Sinkoff, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers–New Brunswick
304. Francine Sinofsky, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
305. Karen Small, Managing Director, The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, Rutgers–New Brunswick
306. Randi Small, Senior Athletic Trainer, Rutgers Athletics Department of Sports Health
307. Levi Sokol, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
308. Amy H. Soled, Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School, Rutgers–Newark
309. Jay A. Soled, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Accounting and Information Systems, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
310. Rayman L. Solomon, University Professor and Dean Emeritus, Rutgers Law School
311. Shirly Solouki, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
312. Ben Sopranzetti, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Finance and Economics, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
313. Menahem Spiegel, Professor Department of Finance and Economics, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
314. Deborah M. Spitalnik, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Family Medicine and Community Health, Executive Director of The Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
315. Mark Steigelman, Operations Manager, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers–New Brunswick
316. Lyra Stein, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
317. Mark H. Stein, MD, Professor Emeritus, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
318. Louis Steinberg, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Rutgers–New Brunswick
319. Judith M. Stern, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Psychology, Rutgers–New Brunswick
320. Lea P. Stewart, Professor, Department of Communication, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
321. Judith Storch, Professor, Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
322. Jack Stroh, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
323. Jacob Sturm, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, 

Rutgers–Newark 

324. Michael Sturman, Distinguished Professor, Department of Human Resource Management, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University–New Brunswick
325. Larry Temkin, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Rutgers–New Brunswick
326. George Thomas, Board of Governors Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School–Newark
327. Jay A. Tischfield, PhD, FFACMG, Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Founding Director, Human Genetics Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
328. Max A. Tischfield, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Rutgers–New Brunswick
329. Colleen M. Tolan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rutgers Center for Women in Business, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
330. Dawn Tortajada, MSN, RN, PNP-BC, Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurse, Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology Clinic, Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Rutgers – New Brunswick
331. Wade Trappe, Associate Dean, School of Engineering, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
332. Sharon J. Underberg-Davis, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Radiology, Chief of Pediatric Radiology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
333. Joyce Kasman Valenza, Associate Professor of Teaching, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
334. Alessandro Vettori, Professor, Department of Italian, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
335. Nina Wacholder, Associate Professor, Department of Library and Information Science, Department of Library and Information Science
336. John Warren, Assistant Teaching Professor, Writing Program, English Department, Rutgers–New Brunswick
337. Mark Wasserman, Professor of History Emeritus, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
338. Daniel G. Weaver, Professor of Finance and Economics, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
339. Matthew Weber, Associate Professor of Communication, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers–New Brunswick
340. Dayna Weintraub, Executive Director for Student Affairs Strategic Initiatives, Planning, and Assessment, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Rutgers–New Brunswick
341. Alan Weller, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
342. Lauren Winogron, Assistant Director, Rutgers Global–Study Abroad
343. Jeana Wirtenberg, Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Management and Global Business, Executive Director, Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation, Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick
344. Harriet S. Worobey, Instructor (Retired),  Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
345. John Worobey, Professor Emeritus, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
346. Azzan Yadin-Israel, Professor of Jewish Studies and Classics, Rutgers–New Brunswick
347. Nir Yakoby, Professor, Department of Biology, Rutgers–Camden
348. Itzhak Yanovitzky, Professor of Communication, Rutgers–New Brunswick
349. Martin Yarmush, Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers–New Brunswick
350. Sarah Yavelberg, MD, FAAP, RBHS, Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
351. Jeffrey Zahn, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers – New Brunswick
352. Mikel Zaratiegui, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Division of Life Sciences, School of Arts and Science, Rutgers–New Brunswick
353. Liping Zhao, Eveleigh-Fenton Chair of Applied Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Rutgers–New Brunswick
354. Shoshana Zitter, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School  
355. Dora D. Zuker, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine / Pediatric Anesthesia, Director Medical Student Education, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
356. Karen A. Zurlo, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers–New Brunswick

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The following statement does not necessarily reflect the beliefs or feelings of all writers of the Gleaner: Rutgers-Camden Student-run newspaper

–Editors of the Gleaner

November 27, 2023

To the executive board of the Rutgers University Adjunct Faculty Union,
and the executive council of the Full-Time Rutgers University Faculty Union:

We are writing to object to statements issued by the executive board of the Rutgers University Adjunct Faculty Union and by the executive council of the Full-Time Rutgers University Faculty Union. After Hamas’s October 7 massacre of 1,200 innocent people, mostly civilians, both unions released statements that we consider to be flawed on factual, political, and moral grounds. These statements have angered and alienated a large portion of the memberships of both unions, as well as of the larger Rutgers community. To maintain their claim to represent their memberships, we ask both unions to withdraw these statements.

In response to the Hamas massacres, the executive board of the adjunct faculty union, representing about 3,000 faculty, endorsed a statement from a radical anti-Israel group called Jewish Voice for Peace. JVP, taking the extreme position that Israel should no longer exist as a Jewish state, promotes one-sided propaganda to delegitimize Israel. Its statement about October 7 touched only glancingly on the massacres and instead focused on Israel’s response. The statement falsely and outrageously described that response as “genocidal.” Using an age-old antisemitic trope, it accused Israel of having brought about the terrorist attacks on its own citizens. It made no mention of widely acknowledged legal and moral differences between deliberately targeting civilians, which Hamas does, and accidentally killing civilians in wartime,which Israel has done.

As problematic as the statement endorsed by the lecturers’ union was the undemocratic procedure following in making the endorsement. The executive board of the adjunct faculty did not consult its membership before making its decision, and it ignored suggestions to follow a more moderate path, such as endorsing the statement of the national AAUP. It has also ignored calls to withdraw or change its statement.

The Full-Time Faculty Union has likewise let down its membership with its own statement. In late October, the executive council announced that it was considering a statement and convened a Zoom “office hours” session for members to discuss a draft. The draft was badly one-sided, omitting or misstating the nature of the conflict in significant ways and prescribing political and military policies aligned with Hamas’s goals. Among the flaws: the draft statement spoke of a “crisis in Gaza” but not in Israel; failed to mention Hamas or terrorism; endorsed a letter by a self-selected group of Rutgers professors critical of President Jonathan Holloway’s heartfelt concern for the lives lost on October 7; and waded into foreign policy, calling on President Biden to broker a ceasefire in the war without conditioning that ceasefire on either Hamas’s release of some 240 innocent hostages or on the surrender of Hamas’s leaders.

Almost every single union member who spoke at the October 25 Zoom “office hours” meeting criticized the statement on these and other grounds. Members urged the executive council either to discard it or to modify it significantly. They proposed specific revisions to address the shortcomings. Executive committee leaders promised attendees that their criticisms would be taken into account. But several days later the executive committee issued a statement that was virtually unchanged from the controversial draft. They had made six revisions, largely cosmetic.The final statement retained the implicit endorsement of the anti-Holloway letter and a call for a ceasefire that was not explicitly conditioned to the release of hostages or on bringing Hamas leaders to justice.

The union has every right and even a duty to weigh in on matters of academic freedom and the campus climate. But it should not be issuing statements on geopolitics and foreign policy, especially when it is obvious that no consensus among the membership exists on the issues. Rather than follow the reasonable and decent path of confining its statements to areas where consensus exists, the unions took stands that they knew stood in opposition to many members’ views. For the sake of comity, and to retain their claim to faithfully represent their members, the union leadership should withdraw these statements.

On behalf of the faculty of Rutgers JFAS (Jewish Faculty, Administration, and Staff)
David Greenberg
Professor of History and of Journalism & Media Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Martha Greenblatt
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University-New
Brunswick
Cynthia Saltzman
Lecturer in Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University-Camden

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The first stop on the train ride around haunted spots near campus is the Chancellor’s Office. Located at 303 Cooper Street, this office was built in 1867 and is the former home of South Jersey statesman Isaiah Woolston. The building’s charming vintage facade hides the inconspicuous grave markers lying just behind. With ghostly whispers echoing down its halls and possessed, moving objects, the infamous third floor is considered to be one of our campus’s most haunted places.  Stories from the early 2000s about this office range from minor to terrifyingly creepy, but no new updates have since been reported.

Our next stop, right next to our nursing building, is the Camden City Hall Jail on 530 Federal Street. As frighteningly early as 2014, the Philadelphia Inquirer covered a haunting and invited the all-volunteer South Jersey Ghost Researchers to investigate. The sixth floor raised many red flags, with the researchers’ equipment signaling a presence lurking nearby. This presence was later identified as Ed. The chilling discovery somewhat relieved the staff, whose suspicions had been roused while working there.

Perched on the Delaware River is our next stop, the Battleship New Jersey. Now a museum, the famed warship sits on the Camden Waterfront, right across from Philadelphia. Previously investigated on the popular TV show “Ghost Hunters,” this ship has been rumored to house the wandering ghosts of soldiers on her top deck. Itching to see if this rumor is true? Take a tour of the ship this season and see for yourselves. For more information on tickets, go to https://www.battleshipnewjersey.org/

Schools are not spared such horrors. Visitors to H. H. Davis Elementary School on 3425 Cramer Street have claimed to hear chains rattling and see a tall, dark figure lurking behind the school’s auditorium curtains. One has even heard through the grapevine that three people have died on the premises. 

Start the spooky season off right by touring these sites and enjoying different parts of Camden. Our sister city, one of the oldest in the U.S., has a boatload of history attached to it, and you can access it all just by crossing the Delaware River.

Per CBS News, the Eastern State Penitentiary is considered one of the world’s most haunted places. With over 500 testaments to its capacity to petrify, one of the oldest prisons in the U.S. is a hub for hauntings and a literal graveyard—there have been documented suicides and murders on its premises. Day tours are offered from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., as well as their famous Halloween Nights, which feature five different haunted houses inside the prison alongside themed bars and harrowing tours.

Excited (maybe a little scared) to visit these sites? The Paul Robeson Library is offering students a chance to visit the Penitentiary and other museums for free with free museum passes for students, faculty, and staff. Go with a group to visit the historic Eastern State Penitentiary if you’re scared to go by yourself. For more information on the passes, visit https://engage.camden.rutgers.edu/news/288598.

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By: Acer Paiste

This spring semester, our NJPIRG Students Chapter launched with the hopes of talking to thousands of our peers and making tangible change in our community. We’ve been able to make such significant progress on our work, and are so excited to go into the fall semester 

continuing to fight hunger in our communities and saving the bees in our home cities. Before we get to what’s coming, we want to highlight what we’ve been able to do this Spring. 

We start every semester with a Recruitment Drive. Through dozens of class announcements, hosting fun tabling events, and phone banking, we were able to reach thousands of Rutgers Camden students, and collected hundreds of interest cards from folks who wanted to get involved with our work. From there, we officially kicked off our campaigns. 

Save the Bees 

Bees are essential to our lives. They pollinate 75% of all of the foods we eat, and their pollination helps protect outdoor spaces we love, but we lost 51% of our bee colonies in 2021 due to multiple factors such as climate change, habitat loss, and pesticide use. That’s why in the fall semester we started a campaign to get the Mayor of Camden to declare the city a Bee Friendly City, per the Bee USA Standards. To broaden our efforts and to allow students to make an impactful change closer to their homes, we collected petitions not only for the city of Camden, but for other students’ home cities as well. Collectively, we set a goal of 300 petitions and ended up collecting 397, 111 of those petitions being designated to the city of Camden alone! We delivered these petitions to the city halls of the three cities that the most petitions were signed for: Camden, Cherry Hill, and Pennsauken. 

Hunger and Homelessness 

This semester, Rutgers – Camden students focused on giving what they could to local nonprofits to facilitate their volunteer efforts to fight hunger. Every Friday starting in March and continuing to the end of the spring semester, students hosted Art Parties to make centerpieces and

placemats for the dinner services for Cathedral Kitchen. The centerpieces were toilet paper rolls wrapped in construction paper so that dining service attendees could take them home. The students did an excellent job at making them creative and colorful! 

Affordable Textbooks 

Rutgers professors across all three campuses have taken strides to make textbooks affordable by partaking in the Open and Affordable Textbooks (OAT) Program. OAT is an incentive program that awards research funds to Rutgers faculty who make their courses more affordable for their students by using low-cost materials, library content, or Open Educational Resources (OERs). To date, the program has saved Rutgers students an estimated $6.25 million. The goal of the program is to support course material affordability at Rutgers, promote the use of open and affordable educational resources, and empower faculty to innovate their teaching through the use of open, free, or library-licensed materials and teaching aids. 

This semester, we sought to recognize the professors who make a difference in their class affordability and the librarians who make that possible by filming them for our OER “OERscars” video event, in which we gave faculty an Oscar statue and recorded these faculty and librarians speaking about what OERs and textbook affordability mean to them. We were delighted to award Professor Tracie Paulson an OERscar for her efforts in making her classes more affordable by providing no-cost materials to her students.

Looking Forward 

Now that we’ve secured our funding for the next three years, we’ll be diving right back into our campaign work. For the fall, our Chapter has voted to continue running our campaign to Save the Bees. Building on the hundreds of petitions we have from community members, we’ll be working to continue building support for Camden to become a Bee Friendly City. We’ll also be working to recruit and train more student leaders to build up our chapter! 

A Thank You 

All of this work is completely thanks to our team of students who dedicate so much of their time to making a difference. All of our work is so dependent on our community, and we could not have done the work we did without the entire Rutgers Community. From the professors who let us do class announcements, to the administrations who helped send out campus wide emails, to the staff who helped us reserve rooms, and of course the students who came to our tables and engaged with us, we are so appreciative of everyone’s support. 

We are looking forward to a Fall semester filled with fun campaign events, but above all, we can’t wait to continue making New Jersey and Rutgers a place where students can organize, and win.

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Here is the link for more information: https://www.rutgers.edu/openhearing

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On February 25th, the annual Polar Bear Plunge at Seaside Heights challenged over thousands of jumpers across the state to dive into freezing waters to raise awareness and funds for the Special Olympics of New Jersey. On the Polar Bear Plunge website, they managed to exceed their $2,150,000 goal, which as of now stands at over $2.6 million.

According to the Polar Bear Plunge’s website, for over 50 years, it has provided free annual sports training, competitions, leadership opportunities, and health screenings to over thousands of athletes. This is thanks to many fundraising events, like the Polar Bear Plunge at Seaside.

The primary goal of the Special Olympics is to create a new world of inclusion and community by providing a platform for others to show their skills regardless of ability or disability. With over 4 million athletes participating each year, their global movement only continues to expand with time.

Twelve of our Rutgers University Police Department officers joined in on the event as the Freezing Fuzz’s. With the support of their friends and family who traveled down, the Freezing Fuzz, along with thousands of other plungers, jumped into freezing Jersey waters, which reached roughly 43.5 degrees. Many people were dressed in costumes, furs, and special gear for the event. Shops and stands normally closed for the winter opened as many showed up for the annual event.

The RUPD has been participating every year since 2017. Currently, two officers of the RUPD have family members who would be considered for the Special Olympics. In an interview with both Officer Ronca and Officer Rodriguez,who participated in the event, they commented on their experience with the event and what it has meant to them.

Officer Ronca says,” It is a good way for us to rally behind our officers and raise awareness[ for the Special Olympics].”

Officer Rodriguez mentioned some of her family members were diagnosed with Down syndrome, including her older brother Angel, who participated twenty years ago in the Special Olympics. He competed in track, gavelin, shot put, and special Olympics bowling. The Polar Plunge meant a great deal, as she has always been active in donating and raising awareness for the cause. Rodriguez commented, “It means so much to participate in the polar plunge because, I would like to say, I have an athlete in the family.” Since she could remember, her family has been very supportive and active in her brother’s competitions.

If you are interested in participating in future events for the Polar Plunge, please visit their website for information on next year’s event:https://www.plungeseaside.org/event-information/.

In partnership with the FBI, the RUPD is hosting a Sextortion Seminar in the MPR room in the campus center on April 25th during free period. There will be refreshments and treats available for those interested in joining the presentation.

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On February 17th of 2023, President Jonathan Holloway released a Budget Address to the University concerning the university’s finances. 

A recent article done by Rutgers- New Brunswick alum-adjunct professor Hank Kalet commented on the contents of the address. It sheds light onto a somewhat rocky narrative painted by Holloway.

Holloway notes that the update falls in between good and bad. The university has reached more than 25% of research revenue since 2020 as well as nine faculty named fellows and numerous students be awarded academic and research awards. All seems promising but Holloway notes the challenging times ahead due to “financial headwinds”.

Kalet comments that this language generates uncertainty in the direction of where the university is headed. Since June 30th, the faculty and staff unions at Rutgers have been without a contract. The Union and faculty are asking for change especially in the way the university is run. Often in order to cut costs, faculty and staff wages are brought down as they make up much of the academic budget.

Kalet says “This is about priorities. Holloway and those around him are prioritizing austerity for faculty and students, while telling a story of a “beloved community” that just does not exist at this point.”

Rutgers is just an example of the wrongs done by the corporate model. This isn’t just a faculty issue but a problem potentially affecting students. The uneasiness felt by faculty is undeniable and its no doubt that students will feel the effects of this uncertainty. We as students are reliant on the aid of our professors and staff so by not providing them job security, to say the least it is troubling. How can we expect our professors to teach under severe circumstances? Who is to say that these cuts will stop at just lower wages for staff but limiting course selections and resources available on campus?

By keeping informed on the issue and raising awareness, this will keep the conversation ongoing and put a spotlight on the university to provide for their staff. For more information on the issue, please visit https://hankkalet.substack.com/ and https://rutgersaaup.org/. This is our fight, we stand with our professors and staff.

In recent news, the Rutgers AAUP-AFT is asking to cast votes to strike authorization for a fair contract for its faculty and staff. They are organizing two important panel discussions titled “Solidarity Beyond the University” and “Solidarity Within the University” that will be live-streamed on the union’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/RUaaup.

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News of the development of a South Jersey LNG Export Terminal has been circulating on media platforms.

The project will transport liquid methane (LNG) over a 200-mile truck and train route from Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, about an hour’s drive northwest of Scranton, to a port on the Delaware River in Gibbstown, New Jersey, where it will be loaded onto ships. 

According to RUC Green Thumbs, a Rutgers-Camden organization dedicated to spreading awareness about environmental issues, they have been advocating against this new development for the risks that it poses for Camden residents and the environment. They have started a petition with over 240 student signatures. Here is the link to the petition if you are interested in putting a stop to this development: https://rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_54EzpSLPprKYQ06.

This plan to develop this terminal was proposed by New Fortress Energy, and it will go through parts of South Jersey and East Pennsylvania. The issues of transporting LNG via train or truck could pose a threat to residents in low income and minority areas and even in our own backyard, as well as several childcare centers and schools like Rutgers University-Camden. LNG is a hazardous and explosive chemical and transporting this in highly populated areas will be disastrous. 

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on this development back in May of 2022. Statistics done by Delaware Riverkeeper Network estimates over 1.9 million people could be at risk. If the development continues, air-pollution levels will worsen in the South Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania area. Traffic-induced pollution is linked to various health concerns like heart attacks and hypertension, and pregnant women are at extreme risk as this could cause preterm birth, low birth weight, and stillbirths.

LNG is extremely unstable and a train derailment that happened in East Palestine, Ohio is evident of this danger awaiting the South Jersey area. These trains were transporting vinyl chloride, another highly explosive chemical. The accident damaged the environment and polluted the air and water supply for residents. This derailment shows the risks of transporting lethal explosive chemicals. 

Including the dangers of transporting LNG, climate change also needs to be considered. “The Building of new gas infrastructure propels the economy further away from clean energy and tethers us to the dirty, fossilized energy of the past,” said Elizabeth Cerceo and Tracy Carluccio, for The Inquirer.

Over 90 organizations have signed a letter asking Governor Phil Murphy to reject permits for the Gibbstown terminal. As a community, we must raise awareness of this important issue that will closely affect citizens. Another petition with more than 5,000 signatures is out by the STOP LNG BY RAIL PERMITS on Action Network.

Please reach out to RUC Green Thumbs on Instagram @ruc_greenthumbs for more updates and future events.

Photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy for NRDC

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The Digital Studies Center organized a discussion called Telling True Stories with its key speaker being Matt Fulton, BA/MA alum, filmmaker, and author of several books. He is currently working on a film that tells the story of the 1949 mass shooting in Camden. Matt was joined by Dr. Robert Emmons, a documentary filmmaker and head of the filmmaking program here on campus. They talked about challenges and resources to nonfiction storytelling and filmmaking. The event took place November 15th at the Digital Commons.

Mr. Fulton began discussing the 1949 mass shooting that happened right here in Camden. A World War II veteran, Howard Unruh, killed 16 people in Camden with a German pistol during a twelve minute walk. They played a historic film reel of the crime that showed the scene of the crime and the murderer being taken away for psychological evaluation to Cooper Hospital. The reel followed with testimony from several eyewitnesses with one stating, “The murderer was very calm and collected, not once ran.”

Inside the life of Howard before the shooting, he was secretly gay and had numerous relationships with men during his stay at a boarding house. The summer before the shooting he was dating a man named Van. There is no other information about Van besides his first name. The Night before the shooting, Howard was supposed to meet him at a theater but Van stood him up. He stayed for a few movies then later on went home. The next day he attempted to kill his mother with a knife then proceded to continue on his murder spree.

Picture of A Dark Horse Comic Issue #23 of Gateway to Hell: the Howard Unruh Story

Now Mr. Fulton’s first discovery of the case, he was at a family party and a family friend, Paul, approached him and said casually that the first mass shooting was in Camden. This caught the attention of Fulton, his friend then continued on recounting the details of the case.

Difference in approach to film making on this project, Matthew wanted to write a screenplay about the crime. Researching the story which then required him to look into all the police records and news clipping. Mostly all the information he used in his research was all in writing as the records were not digitized. His approach to creating the screenplay was to not only be authentic but to understand “it’s not what’s wrong with you but what happened to you?”

Both Mr. Fulton and Dr. Emmons discussed the ethics about telling true stories. Fulton on the subject said, “I am figuring it out as I go along when it comes to ethically documenting this story.” Fulton acknowledges that he does make up some parts of the story when it comes to Howards’ day to day as long as it does not contradict a historical record. He says “I am writing about people who died violently. I want to write to keep it as authentic as possible.”

Fulton referenced the new Jeffrey Dahmer netflix show. He believed “it is a prime example of what not to do.” Wrestling with this idea of being true yet neutral is difficult when it comes to storytelling. In the Dahmer series, the protagonist is somewhat given redeemable qualities which distracts from the crime the culprit has committed. He had an issue with this portrayal of Dahmer. With memes and news covering the new show, Netflix recently came under fire for labeling the show as an LGBTQ+ story because it portrays gay men in a bad light. Fulton believes having that label is not a bad thing as it is a part of Dahmer’s story and “we should not pick and choose what representation is out there.”

Going back to the Howard case, Fulton noted there seems to be no key reason for the attack. It seems Howard was upset about his gate being damaged the night before after his date stood him up. He did add that one of his victims was the wife of Thomas Cohen and some members of his family. It was known that Howard had issues with Thomas and went into his pharmacy looking for him. A survivor of the attack was a 13 year old Charles Cohen who hid in a closet. 

What was interesting is his sexuality was not publicly reported yet his psychological records discussed his first gay experiences with a cousin. Below is a copy of the records of his psychiatric evaluation.

One of the attendees asked, How do we separate the killer from the man? Fulton’s approach is to show the feelings of Howard and his struggles with accepting his sexuality. By not focusing on all the bad but the life before the attack, this allows a full picture of the subject instead of a narrow view. It is not meant to pity the subject but to provide the facts and the truth of the individual. 

This event is the last of the alumni speakers for the semester. For more information on upcoming spring events, please follow the English Department page on the Rutgers website.

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“Comparison of urban problems between Korea and the United States through quantitative data analysis”

As part of the Fall 2022 Seminar Series by The Center of Urban Research and Education (CURE), guest speaker Dr. Yoonhwan Park discussed the similar problems both Americans and South Koreans face regarding urbanization on Thursday, December 8th.

An advanced technological and ever-expanding country like South Korea still faces a handful of disadvantages to its growth, including urban composition, poverty and inequality between classes, gentrification, transportation, housing, and fertility rates.

Technology seems to be the driving force behind its growth and a way for the country to connect seamlessly with others. Unfortunately, this has brought a wave of people from rural areas flocking into the big cities, primarily Seoul, the country’s capital. Seoul, a flourishing city filled with vibrant culture and an infinite scope of opportunities, faces many challenges, among them being overpopulation.

Photography by Justin Harris

According to Dr. Yoonham Park, roughly 9 out of 10 Koreans live in the city. With almost 10 million people residing in Seoul, it remarkably surpasses the 8 million people dwelling in the NYC metropolitan area. Of course, this growth was not overnight but started back in the early 20th century, when Korea was considered one of the poorest countries on the map and, as it is now, one of the most powerful countries in the world.

Change came shortly after the devastation of the Korean War in the 1950s. In such a short amount of time, South Korea implemented in the 1960s ways of modernization by moving away from agriculture. The South was able to fully recover from the effects of war and advance their way of life.

Due to this transformation, architecture and, most importantly, transportation improved, allowing more citizens to travel from the suburbs and rural areas to the cities. Interestingly, suburban areas are very different from the ones Americans are familiar with. Most people picture a picket white fence with a big yard, but in South Korea, it consists of apartment buildings. Dr. Yoonham Park stated that the suburbs resembled more like cities than the typical standard American suburbs. This design is an environmental effort done by the government to conserve more energy.

In previous years, Seoul was experiencing suburban growth, which reached its highest between 1990 and 2000 at 120% population by provincial level jurisdiction. This growth rapidly decreased as more people migrated to Seoul and other major cities. Recently, to reduce congestion, the government has decided to elect Sejong as the country’s administrative capital to spread out the influx of population.

The battle isn’t over, as the government must tackle the dangerously low fertility rates. As most of the population lives in cities, the cost of living is one of the main contributing factors to the decline. Another factor in the decline is the high cost of childcare. An apartment in Seoul can go for over $1 million. Ultimately, the newer generations are more focused on earning a higher living; they simply cannot afford to live in the city and have a traditional family at the same time. The Korean government has spent $200 billion on combating this issue.

Now the cities have more older generations than younger ones, which is of grave concern. Korea has one of the highest poverty rates in the world, alongside the United States. 40% of the poverty rate consists of the elderly. Curious on the subject, I asked Dr. Yoonham more about the issue. For context, he earlier explained that the poor, especially the elderly who are homeless, are a top priority, and the country has made ways in which to provide aid or assistance. Those who are over 65 years old are allowed to ride the transit for free.

I said, “It seems South Korea has a somewhat positive view compared to the very negative and criminalized approach the United States has toward those who are homeless, specifically the elderly. Is there a reason why that is?”

Dr. Yoonham Park responded, “Korean culture has this respect for the elderly and feels it is their duty to help. Most of the homeless people there do not sleep on the street, do drugs, or commit crimes. They do not cause trouble.”

According to a 2020 study by Statistics Korea and the Supreme Prosecutors´ Office, the crime rate in South Korea lay at about 3,311 crimes per 100,000 people. Several regions showed crime rates above the national rate, led by Jeju, which recorded about 4,371 crimes per 100,000 population.

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