Senate vote effectively nixes major realignment plan

In what amounts to a complete undoing of a major realignment plan proposed last fall, the Academic Senate voted Monday that academic division deans should be permanently reinstated. Coming after its May 14 votes on two other elements of the original plan, the Senate’s action would leave the division structure largely unchanged from what it was before the plan to replace some deans with faculty chairs was put forward.

Justice was served in Ravi sentencing

Tears of relief, not sadness were shed by Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student who was found guilty of spying on his roommate with a webcam, after a judge made the right call by leniently slapping him with a 30-day jail sentence. However, some might think it wasn’t punishment enough when you throw in the fact that his roommate, Tyler Clementi, was gay and ended his own life by jumping off a bridge after discovering Ravi told others of his encounter with another man.