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the event when she stopped by.
“I hope that next time that you want to talk to me, you would simply ask to come to talk to me or ask me to come to where you are,” Gitenstein said. “You don’t have to come to my office. I have never been resistant to meeting.”
The president told the students they “don’t have to explain” or “defend” what they were doing but wished they went about it differently, adding they should “think of other ways of engaging.”
“You’re talking to me now, OK?” she said. “I will respond.”
The president did provide a written response to the students’ demands.
In regards to renaming Loser Hall, she stated the commission has yet to reach a conclusion.
“The Commission is advisory to me and their recommendations will be subject to my acceptance, rejection or modification,” she wrote, adding it would be inappropriate for her to state her opinion on the matter until the report is complete.
The college, she said, is also reviewing a “number of opportunities” to “ensure that the long term counseling needs” of the students due to the clinic’s slated closure and that college officials “expect” those opportunities will also be available to the community.
InawinforTCNJCommunity on Unity, Gitenstein also agreed to hold and attend an open forum on Thursday, May 4 at the Brower Student Center Event Space at 8:30 p.m. to share plans, information and feedback.
As part of its history, TCNJ moved from Trenton to Ewing and scrubbed the capital city from its namesake in 1996. The college used to be known as Trenton State College.
Asked why Trenton is so important to TCNJ, Reid said, “It’s a community that’s right on our doorstep and it’s a community that we should be a part of.”
“I feel that TCNJ can be such an asset to the people of Trenton and the fact that we’re neglecting it entirely and disengaged when it wouldn’t even be difficult for us to get engaged, it’s a disservice to everybody in Trenton, it’s a disservice to everybody on this campus.”