Rutgers Updates Its Anthem to Include Women

But “On the Banks of the Old Raritan,” the alma mater of Rutgers University, is particularly inadequate. “My father sent me to old Rutgers,” the song proudly began, “And resolved that I should be a man.”
Stirring as it may have been, that lyrical formulation from 1873 left a few members of the modern Rutgers community unsung. Those whose mothers sent them to Rutgers, for example. Those whose fathers forbade them from going to Rutgers, but who went anyway. And the women who

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