In Popular Culture
Demarest Creative Writing Section alumnus Junot Díaz refers to Demarest in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Diaz has said of Demarest that it "is Rutgers in the most profound way for the very reason that it is unique and special and, in some ways, seems to be outside of it."
A shot of Demarest Hall appears in The World According to Garp, roughly an hour and a half into the movie.
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