By Sam Berman
Man the towers, lower the gates, ready our defenses — the University is under assault.
As you all go about your daily business as a student here at the University, Rutgers-Camden is the target of what its faculty has termed a “hostile takeover” by Rowan University. Gov. Chris Christie, in what appears to be an unexpected alliance with the Democratic president of the N.J. Senate, Stephen Sweeney, is pushing hard for a proposal that would transfer “all of Rutgers-Camden’s property, assets and state funding” to Rowan. In other words, Christie, Sweeney and all who support this deal are proposing that Rutgers-Camden — undoubtedly an essential element of what allows the University to proudly wear the moniker of “The State University of New Jersey” — be ripped away from us and given, for nothing in return, to Rowan.
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