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The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Kynan Johns will be throwin’ it down Jay-Z style Sunday evening as they appear with the legendary rapper in a Super Bowl XLIV music video. The 2-minute teaser is set to air just minutes before the 6:28 p.m. ET kickoff between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts.

Appearing in a music video is “outside the mainstream of classical music,” admits Johns, director of orchestras at Mason Gross School of the Arts. “It doesn’t happen in our realm.” Johns says the arrangement of the song is a fusion of rap and rock injected with a substantive orchestral presence.

Johns says the video shoot, taking place this week in New York City, will help his classically trained students to see that “it takes a lot of time to get pop music to that level.”

The Rutgers Symphony Orchestra is scoring prime face time on what is largely considered the biggest TV event of the year. According to The Nielsen Company, last year’s Super Bowl attracted, on average, nearly 99 million viewers.

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It took nearly 19 years, but the city’s redevelopment of the southeast corner of Easton Avenue and Somerset Street is set to get off the ground this spring.
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One of the major obstacles to the city’s plans was a protracted dispute with the owner of three buildings along a stretch of Somerset Street.

Ed Mueller has owned New Jersey Books, a prime vendor of college textbooks, since the early 1970s. He has been involved in a tug-of-war with the city and redevelopment officials. His Somerset Street property was slated to be acquired through eminent domain proceedings.

An agreement with Rutgers, the city, its redevelopment arm and Mueller was reached in June 2007, and Mueller moved a few hundred feet down the street.

The New Brunswick Development Corporation, or Devco, tore down a university maintenance facility and set to work transforming the parcel. Within a few weeks, New Jersey Books will move from cramped, low-ceilinged quarters to a new structure with natural light pouring through large windows on two floors.
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No matter who you were voting for - this was an election the world was watching. It was exciting to see so many young voters taking to the streets in New Brunswick to enjoy Barack Obama’s victory. It felt more like winning a bowl game than a political election!

Click photo above for more pictures from College on the Record.

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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Rutgers University says Barnes & Noble College Booksellers will run a new 46,000-square-foot superstore that will anchor a development planned just off the campus. The bookstore will replace the university’s existing 19,000-square-foot bookstore.

The store will anchor a $145 million high-rise structure, financed by New Brunswick’s development corporation, that will include office space, stores, condominiums and a parking garage across the street from the New Brunswick railroad station.

Under a 10-year contract, Barnes & Noble will take over management of all the college bookstores on the New Brunswick campus in November.

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Walter Seward was a celebrity on campus and at Rutgers events. He was the oldest living alumnus and Rutgers’ biggest fan! He’s also the third oldest living person in US. Shoot he’s even in wikipedia.

According to Gerontology Research Group’s records, Seward was the world’s 30th-oldest person. Most who live to be that old are women. The current record-holder is an Indiana woman, Edna Parker, who is 115!

Through all the decades, he was an avid booster of Rutgers and its football team, attending all but six homecoming celebrations since his graduation in 1917. He was recently featured on the backcover of the Rutgers magazine that came out just last week.

A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kirkpatrick Chapel on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick. A viewing is scheduled for Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Preston Funeral Home on South Orange Avenue in West Orange.