January 2007
The art of the scam: E-mail con artists and online suckers
By Nathaniel S. Berke

When Brooklyn artist Linda Marston-Reid received a check in the mail for several thousand dollars, she was excited. It wasn't the money she was looking forward to; after all, she knew it was a fake. The sender was a scam artist she had been leading on for weeks. What delighted her was that she finally had what would become the centerpiece of an art installment that was months in the making.

 

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December 28, 2006
Nottingham's Rx For Worry & Doubt
By Nathaniel Berke

Nottingham residents expressed concerns about the ability to meet health care needs in the neighborhood in light of a recent report issued by a state panel.

The state panel -- known as the Berger Commission -- recommended earlier this month that one Brooklyn hospital shut its doors, and two others, New York Methodist in Park Slope and New York Community in Midwood, merge. New York Community serves the Nottingham neighborhood. As part of the merger, the two hospitals would lose a combined 100 beds.

"If [hospital administrators] are concerned, should we be?" asked Maureen Moogan, a member of the Nottingham Civic Association's board of directors.

December 15, 2006
A prescription for sad health care
By Nathaniel Berke

Senator Charles Schumer thinks New York's health care system is in need of treatment. The ailment is a severe case of acute economic crisis, and it is a result of its own success.

Due to a "remarkably successful" system, people are now living longer than they did decades ago, he said in a speech on Tuesday at New York Methodist Hospital, 506 Sixth Street. The costs involved in extending life are rising with widespread demand and causing a "fundamental problem" in health care: hemorrhaging budgets.

December 10, 2004
Should Rutgers, Livingston unite?
Internal complaints over college's stigma grabs academic committee's attention
By: Elexis Silverman and Nathaniel Berke

Many Livingston College students call their school the second-string liberal arts college of Rutgers-New Brunswick. They say it is a subpar backup to Rutgers College. One student even classified the college as not something to like, but simply something to "accept." Livingston College was the first coed school on the New Brunswick campus, which placed an emphasis on ethnic and racial diversity. However, since its creation, all of the University has adopted this mission.
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October 20, 2004
After four years campus still lacks plan for women's center
By: Elexis Silverman and Nathaniel Berke

Like pieces of a puzzle, women's services at the University remain scattered across the New Brunswick campus. Even though a University commission recommended centralizing the services four years ago, the University appears to show no intention to act upon the commission's report. The issue of building a women's center, in which all services would be centrally located, was a hot topic of debate in 2000 after the previous women's center was removed from its location. However, the University did not move forward on the initiatives at that time.
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