With some advice and guidance, I have decided to change my initial topic idea from the "freshman 15" to the relatively known idea of the "RU Screw."
When searching the term "RU Screw" the first hit is for the website commonly known as Urban Dictionary. Urban Dictionary provides a definition of the "RU Screw" as "The tendency for Rutgers University to fuck you over in some way or another due to their incompetence. Be it financially, academically, or otherwise. It eventually happens to everybody that attends the university." I also came across twitter accounts, as well as Facebook pages that are dedicated to the University's myth.
By just searching "RU Screw" on the Daily Targum website I was overwhelmed by the number of hits this topic received. 168 results to be exact. An example of one is: http://www.dailytargum.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/change-parking-for-commuter-benefit/article_cd6d4185-0bd6-5fab-8026-e7861a533f7f.html, which discusses parking situations for commuter students on campus.
Famous authors like Junot Diaz and Michael Moffatt both discuss the "RU Screw" in their work. To be even more specific Michael Moffatt even begins to clarify where the terminology originated in his book Coming of Age in New Jersey.
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