The alumni association of the Rutgers School of Law-Newark is now on record against the proposed merger of Rutgers-Camden and Rowan universities.

The association, which represents several thousand alumni, made public a letter to Rutgers’ governing boards today. It questions the provenance of the original proposal — widely and rightly criticized as ill-conceived — as well as the rather fuzzy alterna-merger plan now making the political and media rounds.

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“(T) he structure of Rutgers should not be decided behind closed doors by a small group that represents neither the University as a whole nor the public it serves,” the association writes (amen to that).

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