The protesters had a lot of fun marching around the New Brunswick campus the other day. But where they should be marching is to Trenton, where Gov. Murphy will decide how much state aid they will receive
Their basic demand was that he turn the campus into a sort of Havana-on-the-Raritan.
Some of the marchers carried signs that read “Pay the bill” in big letters. I couldn’t read the small letters at first, so I figured the sign would read “Pay the bill, Phil” - a rhyming reference to the governor who is the ultimate authority on deciding how much state aid Rutgers gets.That doesn’t rhyme and it doesn’t make sense either.
A list of the unions’ demands reads like … well, it reads like a Phil Murphy campaign platform -- an affordable-housing program, child care and health care for part-timers, a $15 minimum wage, and so on.And when it comes to money, these strikers are protesting in the wrong place. “Every year at the budget hearings I would raise the issue of how the percentage of the state budget for higher education has shrunk tremendously over the years,” said former state senator – and proud Rutgers alumnus - Ray Lesniak. “No one seemed to care. They didn’t hear from the Rutgers constituency, and the other universities weren’t much better.”
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