News & Views

Umbrage Dims Into Institutionalized Duncery
Esther J. Cepeda
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

What happens when adults live in a world drenched in sexual innuendo, double entendre and sexually provocative media images? Children are inadvertently sexualized and become objects of suspicion.

Case in point: 7-year-old Mark Curran, a Boston first-grader, was recently accused of sexual harassment. He got into trouble for kicking a classmate in the crotch after the classmate allegedly choked him.

Charter School Budgets Drain Our Community
'SPEAKER POWER' - Guest Column
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

I have been a proud Highland Park resident for 40 years. I raised my two sons, Connell and Blair, in Highland Park and they were well served by our public schools. Two of my grandchildren, Benjamin and Max, live in Highland Park and are currently happy, successful students at Bartle. Their parents are very active in our community and take great pride in the work they do for our schools. I have a vested interest in our school system’s continued success.

Building Bridges To Nowhere
'SPEAKER POWER' - Guest Column
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
At their best, charter schools should serve students who have been in the public schools – but have not been well-served.

The proposed Hebrew Language Charter High School makes no sense in Highland Park, because (1) our High School has responded to suggestions made by the charter “founders”; (2) our town is small and adding another District with its own administration is a waste of taxpayer dollars; and (3) the “founder” of this school, Shoshana Akman, has not tried our schools for her family.

Downtown H.P. still a no-mans-land for bicycles
Geoff Herzog
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Albert Valeri, a frequent bicyclist in the New Brunswick/Highland Park area, was ticketed this summer on the New Brunswick side of the Albany Street Bridge for riding on the sidewalk.

The ticket was soon dismissed by the city prosecutor, though; it turns out the New Brunswick ordinance that prohibited sidewalk riding was deleted last year, during a regulation overhaul.

In New Brunswick, there is talk of reinstating the sidewalk ban. But Highland Park has no ordinance governing where cyclists should ride, according to a borough patrolman who requested anonymity.

In the footsteps of Robeson
Geoff Herzog
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance (RAAA) held its Eighth Annual Hall of Fame Awards Ceremony on October 15th at New Brunswick’s Hyatt Hotel with cocktails, dinner and music.

Evelyn Sermons Field praised generations of activists, including white college students, who lobbied for integration well before the 1950s. “I am mostly indebted to people I never knew, who made it possible for me to be one of the first two African-American women to live in the dorms on the Douglass campus,” she explained in her acceptance speech at New Brunswick's Hyatt Hotel

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