utgers UniversityNew Brunswick

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For the University as a whole, see Rutgers University. For other uses of
"Rutgers", see Rutgers (disambiguation).
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Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick

Former names

Queen's College
Rutgers College
Rutgers University

Motto

Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra

Motto

Sun of righteousness, shine upon the

in English

Type

West also.

Flagship
Research University
Land-grant
Public

Established

November 10, 1766

Endowment

$1.009 billion (2015)[1]

Chancellor

Richard L. Edwards

President

Robert L. Barchi

Academic staf

2,080[2]

Administrative

5,340[2]

staf

Students

40,720 (2016)

Undergraduat

32,206 (2016)[3]

es

Postgraduates

8,514 (2016)

Location

New Brunswick-Piscataway, New

Jersey, U.S.

Campus

Urban/Suburban 2,688 acres

(10.88 km2)

Alma Mater

On the Banks of the Old Raritan

Colors

Scarlet[4]

Athletics

NCAA Division I Big Ten

Nickname

Scarlet Knights

Mascot

Scarlet Knight

Website

nb.rutgers.edu

Rutgers University New Brunswick is the oldest campus of Rutgers University, the others being
in Camden and Newark. It is primarily located in New Brunswick and Piscataway. The campus is
composed of several smaller campuses: College Avenue, Busch, Livingston, Cook, and Douglass, the

latter two sometimes referred to as "Cook/Douglass," as they are adjacent to each other. Rutgers
New Brunswick also includes several buildings in downtown New Brunswick. The New Brunswick
campuses include 19 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, including the School of Arts
and Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, School of Communication,
Information and Library Studies, the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public
Policy, School of Engineering, the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, the Graduate School, the
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, the Graduate School of Education, School
of Management and Labor Relations, the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the College of Nursing,
the Rutgers Business School and the School of Social Work.
While several student centers, libraries, commercial venues, and dining halls are found on the
various campuses, each campus has a unique environment created by the academic departments and
facilities it hosts.
Contents
[hide]

1History

2Campuses
o

2.1Facilities

3Academics

4Residence life
o

4.1Graduate family housing

5Student life

5.1Newspapers

5.2Greek life

5.3Traditions

5.4Bus system

5.5Public safety

6Athletic heritage

7See also

8Footnotes

9External links

History[edit]

Main article: History of Rutgers University

This section needs
expansion. You can help
by adding to it. (January 2017)

Campuses[edit]

New Jersey Hall houses the economics department at Rutgers.

Busch: Busch Campus is located entirely within Piscataway Township,

New Jersey. The campus is named after Charles L. Busch (19021971), a
wealthy benefactor, who unexpectedly donated $10 million to the University
for biological research at his death in 1971. The campus was formerly known
as "University Heights Campus" and the land was donated to the University
by the state in the 1930s. The land was formerly a country club and the
original golf course still exists on the campus. The campus is home to
the High Point Solutions Stadium, and provides a high-tech and suburban
atmosphere focusing on academic areas primarily related to the natural
sciences; Physics, Engineering, Mathematics & Statistics, Pharmacy,
Chemistry, Geology, Biology and Psychology. The Rutgers Medical School
was also built on this campus in 1970 but a year later was separated by the
State to create the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
(now UMDNJ). The two universities continue to share the land and facilities
on the campus in a slightly irregular arrangement. The medical school was
returned to Rutgers in 2014.

College Avenue: This campus includes the historic seat of the

university, a block known as Old Queens campus. It is within walking
distance of shops, restaurants, and theaters in downtown New Brunswick, as
well as the NJ Transit train station which provides easy access to New York
and Philadelphia. Many classes are taught in the Voorhees mall area.

Cook: Farms, gardens, and research centers are found on the George H.
Cook Campus, including the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
(formerly Cook College), the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences,
Rutgers Gardens, and the Center for Advanced Food Technology. It is also
home to community improvement programs, such as Rutgers Against
Hunger, the New Brunswick Community Farmer's Market and statewide
programs under the Rutgers Cooperative Extension.

Douglass: Adjacent to New Brunswick's second ward, it shares many of

its open fields with Cook, as they share a campus. The school has many
stately buildings with traditional architecture. Douglass Campus is home to
the Douglass Residential College for women and has four women's-only
housing options.

Livingston: Livingston Campus is home to many of the social science

departments and the Rutgers Business School. The Louis Brown Athletic
Center (commonly known as "the RAC"), the student-founded Livingston
Theater, and the Rutgers Ecological Preserve are also found here. The
campus is situated in Piscataway Township although it extends into parts of
Edison Township and Highland Park. Livingston Campus was recently
expanded and renovated.

Facilities[edit]

The Zimmerli Art Museum on College Avenue

Transportation: The campus bus and shuttle system is a service

provided as a means to travel between campuses. Multiple bus lines
between campuses exist due to the sheer passenger volume and distances
involved.

Computing centers: Student accessible computers are mainly

concentrated within computer labs. Rutgers has many computing centers to
serve the university community.

Meals: The dining services claim to be the third largest student dining
operation in the USA, serving 4.5 million meals annually. There are four
student dining facilities which also provide catering for over 5000 University
events yearly. The dining halls on Busch, College Avenue, and Livingston
campuses also have faculty dining rooms. Dining halls provide various
"event nights" including a midnight breakfast during exams week and King
Neptune Night. All student centers also provide food services, mostly "fast
food" style.

Health centers: Rutgers has 3 health centers/pharmacies which provide

primary care to Rutgers students. The RUHS nurse line is available at no
charge to Rutgers University students when the Health Centers are closed.
Hurtado Health Center is located on the College Avenue campus,[5] and the
Busch-Livingston Health Center shares a parking lot with the RAC on the
Livingston Campus.[6]

Museums: The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum is located in

Voorhees Mall of the College Avenue campus. It was founded in 1966 and
later named after Jane Voorhees Zimmerli who was the mother of

philanthropist Alan Voorhees. The Geology Museum is also located on

college Avenue Campus. The Mason Gross Galleries are located
downtown in the university's Civic Square building.

Academics[edit]
University rankings
National

U.S. News & World Report[8]

70

Washington Monthly[9]

89[7]

This section needs

expansion with: (see
articles for similar U.S.
schools). You can help
by adding to it.(May 2015)

Residence life[edit]
Residence halls provide many facilities for students. With over 15,000 resident students, 5 different
campuses each with its own identity, 58 residence halls, 4 dining halls and 30-plus food courts/cafs,
students can find everything they need right on campus. Despite some over-crowding, students
wishing to live on-campus are usually accommodated, with a lottery system for non-incoming
freshmen determining the order in which students choose their preferred housing (With the exception
of Demarest Hall, which exempts students from the lottery system as long as they are contracted to
special interest sections, and BEST (Busch Engineering, Science, and Technology) Hall, which is
open only to students from SAS, SOE,and Pharmacy, and exempts them from the lottery if they got
into the hall as a freshman). Single, double, and triple-occupancy rooms (in traditional residence
halls), apartments housing four students each, and suites housing six (or four, as in BEST Hall)
students each are available. Rooms and apartments are single-sex, with the exception of married
graduate student housing, which also permit children of students. The other exceptions to this rule
are the Livingston and Rockoff Hall Apartments, Demarest Hall, and Rainbow Perspective Special
Interest Rooms in New Gibbons. (These, however require special applications to be made) Most
floors and buildings are co-ed, with the exception of Douglass Residential College facilities for
women. Rooms usually contain beds, desks, chairs, dressers, and a closet for each student.
Cable/internet access are also provided, but due to the widespread use of mobile phones, traditional
land-line phone service is no longer provided in the halls. Many residence halls include laundries,
main lounges with TVs, foosball and ping-pong, floor lounges with sofas, study tables, and
kitchenettes, study lounges, and vending machines. Every floor or house has a resident advisor, an
upper class student mentor who has received special training and is responsible for handling a
number of tasks, such as planning programs and events, monitoring for safety, and documenting
policy and procedure violations.

In the past, due to overcrowding, Rutgers has rented rooms for students in the Franklin
Township Crowne Plaza. Shuttle buses provided transportation to campus for these students.
Companies like RUliving provide housing catering to the Rutgers/New Brunswick student
community since 1992.[10]
Residence halls by campus:

Busch Campus. Residence Halls: Barr, Allen, Mattia, Metzger, Davidson.

Suites: Crosby, Judson, McCormick, Morrow, Thomas, Winkler, BEST Hall
North, BEST Hall East, BEST Hall West. Apartments: Nichols, Richardson,
Silvers, Buell, Johnson, Marvin.

College Avenue Campus. Residence Halls: Brett, Campbell,

Clothier, Demarest, Frelinghuysen, Hardenbergh, Hegeman, Leupp, Mettler,
Pell, Stonier, Tinsley, Wessels, University Center Apartments, Rockoff Hall
(first 4 floors)

Cook Campus. Residence Halls: Helyar House, Nicholas, Perry,

Voorhees. Apartments: Newell, Starkey.

Douglass Campus. Residence Halls: Bunting-Cobb, Katzenbach,

Lippincott, Jameson, New Gibbons, Old Gibbons, Woodbury. Apartments:
Henderson.

Livingston Campus. Residence Halls: Ernest Lynton Towers, Livingston

Quad Residences 13. Apartments: Livingston Apartments A, B, and C.

New housing is currently in the process of being built on the College Avenue campus to
accommodate more students, to be called "The Yard" and will open to students for the Fall 2016
semester.[11][12]

Graduate family housing[edit]

Three complexes provide graduate family housing. They are Johnson Apartments, Marvin
Apartments, and Nichols Apartments.[13] All three apartment facilities are located in Piscataway
Township on Busch Campus.[14][15][16][17]
In 1966 Johnson was built.[14] In 1973 Marvin was built.[15] Nichols was constructed in 1975.[16]

Student life[edit]
Newspapers[edit]

The Daily Targum, dating back to 1869, is the largest student paper at
Rutgers, and independent, boasting a circulation of 15,000. It features
international, national, local and university news, as well as editorials,
columns, comics, classifieds and sports.

The Medium is a weekly student run publication which satirizes events

both local to the university and national.

The Green Print covers general news as well as environmental issues.

The Rutgers Review is the bi-monthly alternative arts and culture

magazine.

The Rutgers Centurion was a monthly conservative magazine.

The Caellian is the Progressive paper of Douglass Residential College,

and features artistic submissions and LGBT issues.

The BVCL (Black Voice Carte Latina) is the paper of the black / Hispanic
student body.

Greek life[edit]
Main article: Rutgers University Greek organizations
The campus is home to over 80 fraternities and sororities, including African-American, Latino/a,
multicultural and Asian-interest. Several organizations maintain houses for their chapters in the area
of Union Street (known locally as "Frat Row"), adjacent to the College Avenue Campus. Greek
organizations are governed by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.

Traditions[edit]
Main article: Rutgers University traditions
The Grease Trucks are a group of truck-based food vendors located on the College Avenue Campus.
They serve traditional grill fare, Middle-Eastern specialties, and are especially well known for
serving "Fat Sandwiches," a sub roll containing various ingredients such as cheesesteak, burgers,
pork roll, chicken fingers, French fries, mozzarella sticks, eggs, bacon, gyro meat, marinara
sauce, etc. The Rutgers Grease Trucks were located in a designated lot for nearly two decades until
August 2013. Truck owners were forced to relocate due to the construction of a $84 million student
apartment complex. Three trucks remain on the College Avenue Campus, while the remaining two
were moved to the Cook/Douglass Campus. Now, there is a store opening in the new area on College
Avenue called "The Yard".
The Dance Marathon is a student-run organization that consists of a year-long series of fundraisers
and culminates with the annual Marathon on April 56 in the College Avenue Gym. At the Marathon
over 400 dancers pledge to raise funds and remain standing for 32 hours without sleeping. The
'Dancers', along with over 500 volunteers and countless visitors, are entertained by live bands,
comedians, prize giveaways, games, sports, a mechanical bull, computer and internet access, various
theme hours and much more. Rutgers has held this tradition since 1999 and to date has raised in
excess of $1.3 million for the Embrace Kids Foundation. In the seventies the Dance Marathon
raised funds for the American Cancer Society. In the Eighties it was the Rutger Cancer Research
Association.
RutgersFest was a day-long cultural event staged variously on either Livingston Campus or Busch
Campus. It was designed to promote college spirit through student organization participation with
activities and entertainment throughout the day, culminating with a free concert and fireworks at
night. The event was free to all students and guests and was funded as part of an elected
programming fee paid by all students as part tuition. Past musical guests have included: Kanye
West, Everclear, Sugar Ray, Guster, Goldfinger, Ludacris, Reel Big Fish, Method
Man and Redman, Fuel, Third Eye Blind, Hawthorne Heights, NAS, SR-71, Ok
Go, N.E.R.D, Pitbull, and more. The event would feature carnival attractions such as bungee bull,
bouncy boxing, moon walk, electronic basketball, a recording studio and more. Attendance for the
annual event was about 40,00050,000, topping out at an estimated 65,000 in 2004 at the event
which featured Kanye West and Sugar Ray[18] The event was staged by the Rutgers University

Programming Association (RUPA), formerly known as the Rutgers College Programming

Committee (RCPC), as a year-end celebration before the start of the final examination period.
During its final year in 2011, the festival was held on Busch Campus. Invited musical guests
included Yelawolf, Pitbull, and 3OH!3. Several violent incidents that year lead to the indefinite
cancelation of the event. President Richard McCormick, in a letter to the Rutgers community,
commented: "The problems that occur following Rutgersfest have grown beyond our capacity to
manage them, and the only responsible course of action is to cancel the event." [19]

Bus system[edit]
Main article: Rutgers Campus Buses
The size of the campus requires the use of mass transit to get students around to the different
residential campuses. Bus Service is currently provided by First Transit, and runs all year including
breaks and weekends. When the campus transit system is not in service, a smaller point-to-point
shuttle called the Knight Mover is provided for student transportation.

Public safety[edit]
According to a New Brunswick Crime Rate Report,"the city's violent crime rate for New Brunswick
in 2009 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 75.98% and the city property
crime rate in New Brunswick was higher than the national property crime rate average by 12.75%. In
2009 the city violent crime rate in New Brunswick was higher than the violent crime rate in New
Jersey by 142.64% and the city property crime rate in New Brunswick was higher than the property
crime rate in New Jersey by 64.59%". Projected Crime Incidents for 2012, include 184 incidents for
Aggravated Assault, 3 incidents for Arson, 523 incidents for Burglary, 25 incidents for Forcible
Rape, 865 incidents for Larceny and Theft, 73 incidents for Motor Vehicle Theft, 5 incidents for
Murder and Manslaughter, 132 incidents for Robbery, with 1,791 total incidents including 1,464 for
Property Crime and 347 for Violent Crime.[20]
On March 2012, the Daily Targum published an article, City Activists Seek Answers to Street
Violence, regarding the increase in street violence in New Brunswick, "In an attempt to stop local
street violence, residents are teaming up with New Brunswick authorities to make the city streets
safer through various efforts. David Harris, executive director of the Greater New Brunswick
Daycare Council, said community leaders and activists in New Brunswick are exploring different
ways to combat criminal activity".[21]
However, the crime rate in New Brunswick for 2012 is expected to be lower than in 2009. Based on
data from 11 years, New Brunswick crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime. But,
compared to statistics from previous years, while property crime is decreasing, violent crime is
increasing.[20]

Athletic heritage[edit]
Main article: Rutgers Scarlet Knights

The Rutgers College football team in 1882.

Rutgers University is referred to as The Birthplace of College Football as the first intercollegiate
football game was held on College Field between Rutgers and Princeton on 6 November 1869 on a
plot of ground behind where the present-day College Avenue Gymnasium now stands. Rutgers
won the game, by the score of 6 to Princeton's 4.[22]
In 1864, rowing became the first organized sport at Rutgers. Six mile races were held on the Raritan
River among six-oared boats. In 1870, Rutgers held its first intercollegiate competition against the
Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard. During the following century, Rutgers built a strong men's
crew program consisting of both heavyweight and lightweight teams. A womens crew team was
added in 1974. In the fall of 2007, men's heavyweight and lightweight crew, along with men's
swimming and diving, men's tennis, and men's and women's fencing were cut as NCAA Division I
sports by the university administration. The university claimed these changes were due to budget
cuts, while others said it was a politically motivated move used to protest funding changes by the
state. The university currently has no plans to restore these sports.

See also[edit]

New Jersey portal

University portal

List of American state universities

Footnotes[edit]
1.

Jump up^ "Rutgers' Endowment". rutgers.edu.

2.

^ Jump up to:a b "20102011 Factbook" (PDF). Rutgers University.

Retrieved August 14, 2011.

3.

Jump up^ "Rutgers Factbook". Rutgers University. Retrieved 11

November 2016.

4.

Jump up^ http://identity.rutgers.edu/elements-system/colors

5.

Jump up^ http://health.rutgers.edu/locations/location/6

6.

Jump up^ http://health.rutgers.edu/locations/location/7

7.

Jump up^ "2014 National Universities Rankings". Washington Monthly.

n.d. Retrieved May 25, 2015.

8.

Jump up^ "Best Colleges 2017: National Universities Rankings". U.S.

News & World Report. September 12, 2016.

9.

Jump up^ "2016 Rankings - National Universities". Washington Monthly.

Retrieved September 6, 2016.

10.

Jump up^ http://www.RUliving.com

11.

Jump up^ http://www.rutgersfuturebydevco.org/

12.

Jump up^ "The Yard @ College Avenue Rutgers Future by

DEVCO". rutgersfuturebydevco.org. Retrieved 2016-07-02.

13.

Jump up^ "Graduate Family Housing." Rutgers New Brunswick.

Retrieved on October 6, 2011.

14.

^ Jump up to:a b "Johnson Apartments." Rutgers New Brunswick.

Retrieved on October 6, 2011. "171 Davidson Road Piscataway NJ, 08854"

15.

^ Jump up to:a b "Marvin Apartments." Rutgers New Brunswick.

Retrieved on October 6, 2011. "611 Marvin Lane Piscataway NJ, 08854"

16.

^ Jump up to:a b "Nichols Apartments." Rutgers New Brunswick.

Retrieved on October 6, 2011. "194 DAVIDSON ROAD Piscataway NJ, 088548063"

17.

Jump up^ "Russell Apartments." Rutgers New Brunswick. Retrieved on

October 6, 2011. "158 Bevier Road Piscataway NJ, 08854"

18.

Jump up^ April 2011 "Rutgers to permanently cancel annual Rutgersfest

concert"Check |url= value (help).

19.

Jump up^ McCormick, Richard L. "In Regard to RutgersFest".

Retrieved 19 April 2011.

20.

^ Jump up to:a b New Brunswick Crime Statistics: New Jersey (NJ)

CityRating.com. (n.d.). Best Places To Live CityRating.com. Retrieved June 26,
2012, from http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/new-jersey/newbrunswick.html

21.

Jump up^ Conte, R. (2012, March 6). City activists seek answers to
street violence The Daily Targum: Metro: . The Daily Targum: Serving the
Rutgers community since 1869. Retrieved June 26, 2012,
from http://www.dailytargum.com/news/metro/city-activists-seek-answers-tostreet-violence/article_9835b20e-6736-11e1-8132-001a4bcf6878.html

22.

Jump up^ NFL History at the National Football League website, accessed
10 September 2006.

External links[edit]

Official website

Rutgers New Brunswick Scarlet Knights website

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utgers UniversityNew Brunswick

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about Rutgers University's campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
For the University as a whole, see Rutgers University. For other uses of
"Rutgers", see Rutgers (disambiguation).
This article is missing information about history. Please
expand the article to include this information. Further details
exist on the talk page. (December 2015)

Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick

Former names

Queen's College
Rutgers College
Rutgers University

Motto

Sol iustitiae et occidentem illustra

Motto

Sun of righteousness, shine upon the

in English

Type

West also.

Flagship
Research University
Land-grant

Public

Established

November 10, 1766

Endowment

$1.009 billion (2015)[1]

Chancellor

Richard L. Edwards

President

Robert L. Barchi

Academic staf

2,080[2]

Administrative

5,340[2]

staf

Students

40,720 (2016)

Undergraduat

32,206 (2016)[3]

es

Postgraduates

8,514 (2016)

Location

New Brunswick-Piscataway, New

Jersey, U.S.

Campus

Urban/Suburban 2,688 acres

(10.88 km2)

Alma Mater

On the Banks of the Old Raritan

Colors

Scarlet[4]

Athletics

NCAA Division I Big Ten

Nickname

Scarlet Knights

Mascot

Scarlet Knight

Website

nb.rutgers.edu

Rutgers University New Brunswick is the oldest campus of Rutgers University, the others being
in Camden and Newark. It is primarily located in New Brunswick and Piscataway. The campus is
composed of several smaller campuses: College Avenue, Busch, Livingston, Cook, and Douglass, the
latter two sometimes referred to as "Cook/Douglass," as they are adjacent to each other. Rutgers
New Brunswick also includes several buildings in downtown New Brunswick. The New Brunswick
campuses include 19 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, including the School of Arts
and Sciences, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, School of Communication,
Information and Library Studies, the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public
Policy, School of Engineering, the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, the Graduate School, the
Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, the Graduate School of Education, School
of Management and Labor Relations, the Mason Gross School of the Arts, the College of Nursing,
the Rutgers Business School and the School of Social Work.
While several student centers, libraries, commercial venues, and dining halls are found on the
various campuses, each campus has a unique environment created by the academic departments and
facilities it hosts.
Contents
[hide]

1History

2Campuses
o

2.1Facilities

3Academics

4Residence life
o

4.1Graduate family housing

5Student life

5.1Newspapers

5.2Greek life

5.3Traditions

5.4Bus system

5.5Public safety
6Athletic heritage

7See also

8Footnotes

9External links

History[edit]
Main article: History of Rutgers University
This section needs
expansion. You can help
by adding to it. (January 2017)

Campuses[edit]

New Jersey Hall houses the economics department at Rutgers.

Busch: Busch Campus is located entirely within Piscataway Township,

New Jersey. The campus is named after Charles L. Busch (19021971), a
wealthy benefactor, who unexpectedly donated $10 million to the University
for biological research at his death in 1971. The campus was formerly known
as "University Heights Campus" and the land was donated to the University
by the state in the 1930s. The land was formerly a country club and the
original golf course still exists on the campus. The campus is home to
the High Point Solutions Stadium, and provides a high-tech and suburban
atmosphere focusing on academic areas primarily related to the natural
sciences; Physics, Engineering, Mathematics & Statistics, Pharmacy,
Chemistry, Geology, Biology and Psychology. The Rutgers Medical School
was also built on this campus in 1970 but a year later was separated by the
State to create the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
(now UMDNJ). The two universities continue to share the land and facilities
on the campus in a slightly irregular arrangement. The medical school was
returned to Rutgers in 2014.

College Avenue: This campus includes the historic seat of the

university, a block known as Old Queens campus. It is within walking
distance of shops, restaurants, and theaters in downtown New Brunswick, as
well as the NJ Transit train station which provides easy access to New York
and Philadelphia. Many classes are taught in the Voorhees mall area.

Cook: Farms, gardens, and research centers are found on the George H.
Cook Campus, including the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
(formerly Cook College), the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences,
Rutgers Gardens, and the Center for Advanced Food Technology. It is also
home to community improvement programs, such as Rutgers Against
Hunger, the New Brunswick Community Farmer's Market and statewide
programs under the Rutgers Cooperative Extension.

Douglass: Adjacent to New Brunswick's second ward, it shares many of

its open fields with Cook, as they share a campus. The school has many
stately buildings with traditional architecture. Douglass Campus is home to
the Douglass Residential College for women and has four women's-only
housing options.

Livingston: Livingston Campus is home to many of the social science

departments and the Rutgers Business School. The Louis Brown Athletic
Center (commonly known as "the RAC"), the student-founded Livingston
Theater, and the Rutgers Ecological Preserve are also found here. The
campus is situated in Piscataway Township although it extends into parts of
Edison Township and Highland Park. Livingston Campus was recently
expanded and renovated.

Facilities[edit]

The Zimmerli Art Museum on College Avenue

Transportation: The campus bus and shuttle system is a service

provided as a means to travel between campuses. Multiple bus lines
between campuses exist due to the sheer passenger volume and distances
involved.

Computing centers: Student accessible computers are mainly

concentrated within computer labs. Rutgers has many computing centers to
serve the university community.

Meals: The dining services claim to be the third largest student dining
operation in the USA, serving 4.5 million meals annually. There are four
student dining facilities which also provide catering for over 5000 University
events yearly. The dining halls on Busch, College Avenue, and Livingston
campuses also have faculty dining rooms. Dining halls provide various
"event nights" including a midnight breakfast during exams week and King
Neptune Night. All student centers also provide food services, mostly "fast
food" style.

Health centers: Rutgers has 3 health centers/pharmacies which provide

primary care to Rutgers students. The RUHS nurse line is available at no

charge to Rutgers University students when the Health Centers are closed.
Hurtado Health Center is located on the College Avenue campus,[5] and the
Busch-Livingston Health Center shares a parking lot with the RAC on the
Livingston Campus.[6]

Museums: The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum is located in

Voorhees Mall of the College Avenue campus. It was founded in 1966 and
later named after Jane Voorhees Zimmerli who was the mother of
philanthropist Alan Voorhees. The Geology Museum is also located on
college Avenue Campus. The Mason Gross Galleries are located
downtown in the university's Civic Square building.

Academics[edit]
University rankings
National

U.S. News & World Report[8]

70

Washington Monthly[9]

89[7]

This section needs

expansion with: (see
articles for similar U.S.
schools). You can help
by adding to it.(May 2015)

Residence life[edit]
Residence halls provide many facilities for students. With over 15,000 resident students, 5 different
campuses each with its own identity, 58 residence halls, 4 dining halls and 30-plus food courts/cafs,
students can find everything they need right on campus. Despite some over-crowding, students
wishing to live on-campus are usually accommodated, with a lottery system for non-incoming
freshmen determining the order in which students choose their preferred housing (With the exception
of Demarest Hall, which exempts students from the lottery system as long as they are contracted to
special interest sections, and BEST (Busch Engineering, Science, and Technology) Hall, which is
open only to students from SAS, SOE,and Pharmacy, and exempts them from the lottery if they got
into the hall as a freshman). Single, double, and triple-occupancy rooms (in traditional residence
halls), apartments housing four students each, and suites housing six (or four, as in BEST Hall)
students each are available. Rooms and apartments are single-sex, with the exception of married
graduate student housing, which also permit children of students. The other exceptions to this rule
are the Livingston and Rockoff Hall Apartments, Demarest Hall, and Rainbow Perspective Special
Interest Rooms in New Gibbons. (These, however require special applications to be made) Most
floors and buildings are co-ed, with the exception of Douglass Residential College facilities for
women. Rooms usually contain beds, desks, chairs, dressers, and a closet for each student.
Cable/internet access are also provided, but due to the widespread use of mobile phones, traditional
land-line phone service is no longer provided in the halls. Many residence halls include laundries,

main lounges with TVs, foosball and ping-pong, floor lounges with sofas, study tables, and
kitchenettes, study lounges, and vending machines. Every floor or house has a resident advisor, an
upper class student mentor who has received special training and is responsible for handling a
number of tasks, such as planning programs and events, monitoring for safety, and documenting
policy and procedure violations.
In the past, due to overcrowding, Rutgers has rented rooms for students in the Franklin
Township Crowne Plaza. Shuttle buses provided transportation to campus for these students.
Companies like RUliving provide housing catering to the Rutgers/New Brunswick student
community since 1992.[10]
Residence halls by campus:

Busch Campus. Residence Halls: Barr, Allen, Mattia, Metzger, Davidson.

Suites: Crosby, Judson, McCormick, Morrow, Thomas, Winkler, BEST Hall
North, BEST Hall East, BEST Hall West. Apartments: Nichols, Richardson,
Silvers, Buell, Johnson, Marvin.

College Avenue Campus. Residence Halls: Brett, Campbell,

Clothier, Demarest, Frelinghuysen, Hardenbergh, Hegeman, Leupp, Mettler,
Pell, Stonier, Tinsley, Wessels, University Center Apartments, Rockoff Hall
(first 4 floors)

Cook Campus. Residence Halls: Helyar House, Nicholas, Perry,

Voorhees. Apartments: Newell, Starkey.

Douglass Campus. Residence Halls: Bunting-Cobb, Katzenbach,

Lippincott, Jameson, New Gibbons, Old Gibbons, Woodbury. Apartments:
Henderson.

Livingston Campus. Residence Halls: Ernest Lynton Towers, Livingston

Quad Residences 13. Apartments: Livingston Apartments A, B, and C.

New housing is currently in the process of being built on the College Avenue campus to
accommodate more students, to be called "The Yard" and will open to students for the Fall 2016
semester.[11][12]

Graduate family housing[edit]

Three complexes provide graduate family housing. They are Johnson Apartments, Marvin
Apartments, and Nichols Apartments.[13] All three apartment facilities are located in Piscataway
Township on Busch Campus.[14][15][16][17]
In 1966 Johnson was built.[14] In 1973 Marvin was built.[15] Nichols was constructed in 1975.[16]

Student life[edit]
Newspapers[edit]

The Daily Targum, dating back to 1869, is the largest student paper at
Rutgers, and independent, boasting a circulation of 15,000. It features

international, national, local and university news, as well as editorials,

columns, comics, classifieds and sports.

The Medium is a weekly student run publication which satirizes events

both local to the university and national.

The Green Print covers general news as well as environmental issues.

The Rutgers Review is the bi-monthly alternative arts and culture

magazine.

The Rutgers Centurion was a monthly conservative magazine.

The Caellian is the Progressive paper of Douglass Residential College,

and features artistic submissions and LGBT issues.

The BVCL (Black Voice Carte Latina) is the paper of the black / Hispanic
student body.

Greek life[edit]
Main article: Rutgers University Greek organizations
The campus is home to over 80 fraternities and sororities, including African-American, Latino/a,
multicultural and Asian-interest. Several organizations maintain houses for their chapters in the area
of Union Street (known locally as "Frat Row"), adjacent to the College Avenue Campus. Greek
organizations are governed by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs.

Traditions[edit]
Main article: Rutgers University traditions
The Grease Trucks are a group of truck-based food vendors located on the College Avenue Campus.
They serve traditional grill fare, Middle-Eastern specialties, and are especially well known for
serving "Fat Sandwiches," a sub roll containing various ingredients such as cheesesteak, burgers,
pork roll, chicken fingers, French fries, mozzarella sticks, eggs, bacon, gyro meat, marinara
sauce, etc. The Rutgers Grease Trucks were located in a designated lot for nearly two decades until
August 2013. Truck owners were forced to relocate due to the construction of a $84 million student
apartment complex. Three trucks remain on the College Avenue Campus, while the remaining two
were moved to the Cook/Douglass Campus. Now, there is a store opening in the new area on College
Avenue called "The Yard".
The Dance Marathon is a student-run organization that consists of a year-long series of fundraisers
and culminates with the annual Marathon on April 56 in the College Avenue Gym. At the Marathon
over 400 dancers pledge to raise funds and remain standing for 32 hours without sleeping. The
'Dancers', along with over 500 volunteers and countless visitors, are entertained by live bands,
comedians, prize giveaways, games, sports, a mechanical bull, computer and internet access, various
theme hours and much more. Rutgers has held this tradition since 1999 and to date has raised in
excess of $1.3 million for the Embrace Kids Foundation. In the seventies the Dance Marathon
raised funds for the American Cancer Society. In the Eighties it was the Rutger Cancer Research
Association.
RutgersFest was a day-long cultural event staged variously on either Livingston Campus or Busch
Campus. It was designed to promote college spirit through student organization participation with
activities and entertainment throughout the day, culminating with a free concert and fireworks at

night. The event was free to all students and guests and was funded as part of an elected
programming fee paid by all students as part tuition. Past musical guests have included: Kanye
West, Everclear, Sugar Ray, Guster, Goldfinger, Ludacris, Reel Big Fish, Method
Man and Redman, Fuel, Third Eye Blind, Hawthorne Heights, NAS, SR-71, Ok
Go, N.E.R.D, Pitbull, and more. The event would feature carnival attractions such as bungee bull,
bouncy boxing, moon walk, electronic basketball, a recording studio and more. Attendance for the
annual event was about 40,00050,000, topping out at an estimated 65,000 in 2004 at the event
which featured Kanye West and Sugar Ray[18] The event was staged by the Rutgers University
Programming Association (RUPA), formerly known as the Rutgers College Programming
Committee (RCPC), as a year-end celebration before the start of the final examination period.
During its final year in 2011, the festival was held on Busch Campus. Invited musical guests
included Yelawolf, Pitbull, and 3OH!3. Several violent incidents that year lead to the indefinite
cancelation of the event. President Richard McCormick, in a letter to the Rutgers community,
commented: "The problems that occur following Rutgersfest have grown beyond our capacity to
manage them, and the only responsible course of action is to cancel the event." [19]

Bus system[edit]
Main article: Rutgers Campus Buses
The size of the campus requires the use of mass transit to get students around to the different
residential campuses. Bus Service is currently provided by First Transit, and runs all year including
breaks and weekends. When the campus transit system is not in service, a smaller point-to-point
shuttle called the Knight Mover is provided for student transportation.

Public safety[edit]
According to a New Brunswick Crime Rate Report,"the city's violent crime rate for New Brunswick
in 2009 was higher than the national violent crime rate average by 75.98% and the city property
crime rate in New Brunswick was higher than the national property crime rate average by 12.75%. In
2009 the city violent crime rate in New Brunswick was higher than the violent crime rate in New
Jersey by 142.64% and the city property crime rate in New Brunswick was higher than the property
crime rate in New Jersey by 64.59%". Projected Crime Incidents for 2012, include 184 incidents for
Aggravated Assault, 3 incidents for Arson, 523 incidents for Burglary, 25 incidents for Forcible
Rape, 865 incidents for Larceny and Theft, 73 incidents for Motor Vehicle Theft, 5 incidents for
Murder and Manslaughter, 132 incidents for Robbery, with 1,791 total incidents including 1,464 for
Property Crime and 347 for Violent Crime.[20]
On March 2012, the Daily Targum published an article, City Activists Seek Answers to Street
Violence, regarding the increase in street violence in New Brunswick, "In an attempt to stop local
street violence, residents are teaming up with New Brunswick authorities to make the city streets
safer through various efforts. David Harris, executive director of the Greater New Brunswick
Daycare Council, said community leaders and activists in New Brunswick are exploring different
ways to combat criminal activity".[21]
However, the crime rate in New Brunswick for 2012 is expected to be lower than in 2009. Based on
data from 11 years, New Brunswick crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime. But,
compared to statistics from previous years, while property crime is decreasing, violent crime is
increasing.[20]

Athletic heritage[edit]

Main article: Rutgers Scarlet Knights

The Rutgers College football team in 1882.

Rutgers University is referred to as The Birthplace of College Football as the first intercollegiate
football game was held on College Field between Rutgers and Princeton on 6 November 1869 on a
plot of ground behind where the present-day College Avenue Gymnasium now stands. Rutgers
won the game, by the score of 6 to Princeton's 4.[22]
In 1864, rowing became the first organized sport at Rutgers. Six mile races were held on the Raritan
River among six-oared boats. In 1870, Rutgers held its first intercollegiate competition against the
Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard. During the following century, Rutgers built a strong men's
crew program consisting of both heavyweight and lightweight teams. A womens crew team was
added in 1974. In the fall of 2007, men's heavyweight and lightweight crew, along with men's
swimming and diving, men's tennis, and men's and women's fencing were cut as NCAA Division I
sports by the university administration. The university claimed these changes were due to budget
cuts, while others said it was a politically motivated move used to protest funding changes by the
state. The university currently has no plans to restore these sports.

See also[edit]

New Jersey portal

University portal

List of American state universities

Footnotes[edit]
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3.

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November 2016.

4.

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n.d. Retrieved May 25, 2015.

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Jump up^ "Best Colleges 2017: National Universities Rankings". U.S.

News & World Report. September 12, 2016.

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12.

Jump up^ "The Yard @ College Avenue Rutgers Future by

DEVCO". rutgersfuturebydevco.org. Retrieved 2016-07-02.

13.

Jump up^ "Graduate Family Housing." Rutgers New Brunswick.

Retrieved on October 6, 2011.

14.

^ Jump up to:a b "Johnson Apartments." Rutgers New Brunswick.

Retrieved on October 6, 2011. "171 Davidson Road Piscataway NJ, 08854"

15.

^ Jump up to:a b "Marvin Apartments." Rutgers New Brunswick.

Retrieved on October 6, 2011. "611 Marvin Lane Piscataway NJ, 08854"

16.

^ Jump up to:a b "Nichols Apartments." Rutgers New Brunswick.

Retrieved on October 6, 2011. "194 DAVIDSON ROAD Piscataway NJ, 088548063"

17.

Jump up^ "Russell Apartments." Rutgers New Brunswick. Retrieved on

October 6, 2011. "158 Bevier Road Piscataway NJ, 08854"

18.

Jump up^ April 2011 "Rutgers to permanently cancel annual Rutgersfest

concert"Check |url= value (help).

19.

Jump up^ McCormick, Richard L. "In Regard to RutgersFest".

Retrieved 19 April 2011.

20.

^ Jump up to:a b New Brunswick Crime Statistics: New Jersey (NJ)

CityRating.com. (n.d.). Best Places To Live CityRating.com. Retrieved June 26,
2012, from http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/new-jersey/newbrunswick.html

21.

Jump up^ Conte, R. (2012, March 6). City activists seek answers to
street violence The Daily Targum: Metro: . The Daily Targum: Serving the
Rutgers community since 1869. Retrieved June 26, 2012,
from http://www.dailytargum.com/news/metro/city-activists-seek-answers-tostreet-violence/article_9835b20e-6736-11e1-8132-001a4bcf6878.html

22.

Jump up^ NFL History at the National Football League website, accessed
10 September 2006.

External links[edit]

Official website

Rutgers New Brunswick Scarlet Knights website

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