I would be willing to bet that there is a law prohibiting discrimination in education based on citizenship. Maybe the Rutgers College Republican (I doubt there are two) could use that to demand access to the event.
Twenty+ years ago there was an active chapter (Bush I was president); I don’t know about now.
Newark is desperate to keep consumers with money in their pockets in the city. Before leaving for the Senate, Cory Booker wanted a “teachers village”, which from what I understand would have been a pocket of Anglo workers/taxpayers living within a compound in downtown Newark to spur the economy (as consumers, targets for panhandlers, etc.).
Yesterday Newark held its first auction of abandoned lots for $1,000; the buyers had to pledge to live there for five years after building on them. This was how the homesteads worked when the West was settled; Charles Ingalls (”Little House on the Prairie”) had to improve and live on his claim for five years and the government would give him the title. This is what Newark is reduced to: More attempts to draw productive people back with such incentives. All previous attempts have failed; Newark still has less people today than before the riots of the 1960s.
Most of the people on line appeared to be black, though they interviewed one lighter couple who spoke with thick accents.