A pair of “born again” Christian demonstrators provoked student protest Wednesday afternoon when they spoke outside Brower Student Center, decrying the choices of college students, such as drinking and the “homosexual lifestyle.”

Two religious activists, who named themselves only as Greg and Robert, shouted slogans like “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” and engaged nearby students with intentionally-offensive statements.

Students responded by holding rainbow flags and signs advocating for marriage equality. At one point, three pairs of female students started kissing in front of Robert, who wielded a bible and periodically read from it amid chants from student protesters.

“I just got out of class and he was just spewing hate,” said Jessica Cortese, a junior English and women’s and gender studies major. “This should show people that they cannot come to our campus and start ranting hate-chants, we’ll do something about it.”

A few Campus Police officers were on hand but did not interfere. An officer at the scene said as long as the protests remained non-violent, officers would let them continue.

Check tcnjsignal.net throughout the day for more updates and pictures.

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Corzine Is First In Two Decades To Refuse NJ 101.5 Debate
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Jon Corzine

Click here for Corzine’s comments to David Matthau

For the first time in almost 20 years, a candidate running for
statewide office in Jersey has refused to participate in debate on New Jersey 101.5.

Governor Jon Corzine has turned thumbs down on the event – which gives listeners the chance to speak to the candidates about the issues they are most concerned about.

During an event in Union, the Governor was asked why he decided to skip the Millennium Radio debate – and its millions of listeners – in favor of an appearance on a smaller, public radio jazz station in North Jersey.

Corzine replied “cause we’re doing a debate through the public broadcasting group of radio stations, which will get at the same number of people.”

When the Governor was asked if he didn’t like New Jersey 101.5, he said “I love the station! We also like public broadcasting.”

Corzine was then told many voters would be disappointed if he ducked the Millennium Radio debate, and he shot back “a lot of people will be encouraged because we’re using public broadcasting.”

Some political observers suggest the Governor might be concerned he wouldn’t do well in the Millennium Radio debate format – because the candidates are allowed to question each other, and follow up on statements made by their opponents – so he’s decided to skip it.

Republican Gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie continues to lead in all the recent polls.

 

Letter from Corzine Campaign Declining Debate Invitation Click image for larger view

Statement from New Jersey 101.5’s Eric Scott The following statement was released by Eric Scott, News Director for New Jersey 101.5, on Governor Corzine’s refusal to participate in a debate to be aired on the station:  “Just this morning, I received a letter dated September 9, 2009, from Corzine Campaign Manager Maggie Moran declining our invitation to host a Gubernatorial debate. Jon Corzine has now become the first candidate for statewide office in almost 20-years to turn his back on our one-million listeners by refusing to  appear on New Jersey 101.5 to talk directly to New Jersey voters about the issues that are important to them.   New Jersey 101.5 is the most listened to radio station in the state.  Our political forums have won praise from both state and national media.  The Star-Ledger recently wrote of the “Ritual the (NJ 101.5) debate has become in New Jersey politics.”  As a candidate for the U-S Senate and again as a candidate for Governor, Jon Corzine participated in multiple programs and debates on our station.  In this election, however, Jon Corzine appears to have made the strategic decision to pretend that we simply do not exist.  It should be noted that this is the first communication from the Corzine Campaign on this matter since our invitation was extended in July.”

 

 

Government officials in south-east China have ordered workers to cover a 1,000 ft long steel bridge in butter to prevent citizens from using it to attempt suicide.

All the climbable surfaces on the structure in Guangzhou have been covered in greasy fat to put an end to the spate of people threatening to jump from it, The Sun reports.

Government spokesman Shiu Liang said: “We tried employing guards at both ends but that didn’t work – and we put up special fences and notices asking people not to commit suicide here.

“None of it worked – and so now we have put butter over the bridge and it has worked very well. Nobody can get up there and nobody who tries ever falls.”

Bridge guard Wong Man added: “The butter makes the bars and frames slippery and hard to climb on to, and we can easily catch them.

“Each time somebody threatens to commit suicide to get media attention or sympathy over personal problems we end up with several hours of tailbacks and there were lots of complaints.

“Since we put up the butter there have been no problems with these attention seekers.”