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It doesn't take much to become a Big Man On Campus these days. At Rutg ers University, all you have to do is murder cops. Thomas Trantino — who should have gone to the chair 40 years ago — will be a guest panelist there today, lecturing his bleeding-heart audience on "How to Survive Probation and Parole," at the New Jersey college's Camden campus. The forum is co-sponsored by the school's department of sociology, anthropology and criminal justice — whose bizarre notion of criminal justice apparently includes welcoming a cop-killer. Better today's audience should hear from the families of...

Bursting into a New Brunswick apartment armed with a gun and boxcutters, four masked men had robbery on their minds, expecting a group of Rutgers University students would be easy pickings for cash and marijuana, a prosecuting attorney told a jury in Middlesex County yesterday.Screaming obscenities and ordering their victims to lie face- down on the living room floor, the men quickly turned the break-in into an opportunity to sexually assault three of their sobbing victims, First Assistant Middlesex County Prosecutor William Lamb said.One woman was attacked as her friends watched in terror, and the other two were led into...

An illegal immigrant from Honduras was convicted in a series of rapes near Rutgers University that struck fear into the campus and surrounding neighborhood for more than two years.A Superior Court jury in Middlesex County convicted Ricardo Cepates on Tuesday of all but one of 27 counts of kidnapping, raping, and sometimes robbing his victims.The trial included three days of testimony in which laboratory experts said genetic testing conclusively proved that Cepates raped four women and a teenage girl between September 2001 and June 2003..He still faces trial on charges of attacking four other women, one of whom was raped...

<p>NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (AP) -- Living in a college dorm can mean little privacy and exposure to a lot of booze. That can make it a tough place for young adults who are in recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.</p>

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS CANCEL PALESTINE CONFERENCE Statement from the Organizing Committee of the Third National Student Conference on the Palestine Solidarity Movement at Rutgers University *** This is an Urgent Call to Action! Your immediate solidarity is needed! *** (Press release follows this Call to Action) Today, Rutgers University officials have CANCELLED the Third National Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, scheduled for October 10-12, 2003 at Rutgers University. Yet, the students at Rutgers University are determined to hold the conference as planned. In canceling this widely supported conference throughout North America, the university administration has trampled on constitutional...

It took a few minutes for leaders of the Bisexual, Gay & Lesbian Alliance at Rutgers University to realize something was wrong at their back-to-school meeting. The hall was full of unfamiliar students wanting to become members. Most were carrying Bibles with markers in the first chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. They also had copies of the campus policy forbidding discrimination on the basis of "race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, marital or veteran status." Truth is, this scene hasn't happened at Rutgers or anywhere else — so far. What if it...