


We don't have to thank him for that."īut there were others who felt gratitude because they knew that Mr. "I really can't think this is something we should tolerate, regardless of his track record. "What he said is totally unacceptable, especially in the position that he's in," said Alex Norman, a 23-year-old senior who is the first Latino student to head a campus newspaper, Black Voice Carta Boricua. One student organizer went even further, demanding a boycott of classes taught by professors supporting the president. Some students, including the editors of the Rutgers Daily Targum, demanded Mr. They were reluctant to forgive a man they didn't know, a president some considered aloof from the 47,000 students who attend Rutgers's sprawling campuses in New Brunswick, Newark and Camden.Įarlier in the week, student demonstrators surrounded the Old Queens bell tower and stone building housing the president's offices, chanting "Hell no, our genes ain't slow."
