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Professor studies effects of media on childhood CATHERINE NGUYEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Today, the Eagleton Institute Center for Youth Political Participation has polling locations set up across Rutgers registering first-time student voters and making last minute address changes for those who want to vote nearby. THE DAILY TARGUM
Eagleton canvases across Rutgers on National Voter Registration Day JACOB TURCHI STAFF WRITER
With midterm elections around the corner, the Center for Youth Political Participation (CYPP) is keeping civic engagement active on campus through polling events for National Voter Registration Day today. Elizabeth C. Matto, an associate research professor and director of the CYPP at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, said that if any student wants information on how they can register to vote, the best one-stop shop is the RU Voting website — also available on Sakai and myRutgers. “On our site, students will find comprehensive, nonpartisan and accurate information that will help
them as they complete their voter registration forms,” Matto stated in an email to The Daily Targum. “Students also can get information about their polling locations, applying to vote by mail and useful news resources.” In addition to the website, the Institute is hosting numerous voter registration drives around campus, Matto said. Students are registering voters on National Voter Registration Day today at the Rutgers University Programming Association’s (RUPA) and Zimmerli Art Museum’s “Four Freedoms” exhibit, then at the Rutgers v. Illinois football game on Oct. 6. In order to vote in the New Jersey midterm elections, students must register by Oct. 16. If they
are already registered but would like to vote at Rutgers, they must update their registration by the same date. Students can register on the spot at one of Eagleton’s many polling locations across campus. Otherwise, they must submit their printed voter registration or address change forms by mail or in-person to the appropriate Board of Elections, Matto said. In the 2012 presidential election, 73.6 percent of Rutgers—New Brunswick students were registered to vote, of which 63.3 percent voted, according to the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement. This is compared to the 2016 election where 76.6 percent of SEE DAY ON PAGE 5
A Rutgers professor has discovered that there is a cross-generational effect that cartoons have on childhood sleep patterns. Amy Jordan, a professor in the Depar tment of Journalism and Media Studies, studies the ef fects of television shows and adver tisements, and is currently looking at the role media have in children’s sleep. Developing children learn a lot from people, but they frequently learn from media and television series like “The Smurfs,” Jordan said.
“I don’t like the lesson they are learning here,” she said. “What we saw was a whole cast of male characters and one female character, who existed to be the pretty love interest.” Jordan said that when children do not see themselves in the media, it can negatively affect their sense of identity and self-esteem. Along with televison programs, advertisements also have an affect on children — in her research, Jordan is studying the balance between exposure to unhealthy foods compared to healthy ones. SEE CHILDHOOD ON PAGE 4
Amy Jordan, a professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, found that children are more likely to engage in behaviors that reflect the media they absorb. PIIXABAY
$18 M. grant will launch study into tobacco propaganda ELIZABETH KILPATRICK STAFF WRITER
Rutgers has received a five-year grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health for $18 million to examine the effects of tobacco marketing on public health, according to Rutgers Today. The grant will be shared with the University of Pennsylvania. The Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) at the Rutgers School of Public Health will focus on researching and examining the effects of advertising, packaging and labeling on prescriptions, use and exposure of cigarettes and cigarillos, classified as combustible tobacco products, according to Rutgers Today. The center will focus on four primary projects and four cores, which
will provide essential training and career enhancement opportunities. These priorities include: An assessment of smoking behaviors, subjective responses and biological exposure to look at the effect of cigarette packaging on smoking low nicotine content cigarettes. An analysis of low nicotine cigarette advertising and novel tobacco product marketing with a focus on learning how the public is misinformed about health risks. An analysis of how cigarillo packaging with many colors, designs, descriptors and warning labels influence opinion and use. Looking at the effect of cigarette descriptors that can trick the user about the health harms of tobacco products. Olivia Wackowski, an assistant professor of Health Education and Behavioral Science Center for Tobacco
Studies, and Jane Lewis, an associate Professor of Health Education and Behavioral Science, will also work with Delnevo on the research. The Penn-Rutgers TCORS will also collaborate with researchers at other institutions including Columbia University, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, University of Nevada-Reno and University of Vermont, according to Rutgers Today. “The greatest contributor to tobacco-caused disease is from cigarettes and other combustible products,” said Cristine Delnevo, director of the Center for Tobacco Studies at the Rutgers School of Public Health. “Tobacco regulatory science can inform the FDA on future steps that can reduce harm from the most dangerous tobacco products and have the greatest potential to improve public health.”
Rutgers will utilize an $18 million grant from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health to examine the effects of tobacco marketing on public health today. RUTGERS.EDU
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