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Sophomore wide receiver Leonte Carroo scores one of his two late touchdowns in Saturday’s 28-24 victory against Arkansas. Junior quarterback Gary Nova found Carroo in the endzone twice in the fourth quarter to cap a comeback from a 24-7 deficit. The Knights swept the Razorbacks in their home-home series. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Carroo’s two late touchdowns clinch comeback against SEC opponent Arkansas By Josh Bakan Sports Editor
When all eyes in one of the largest crowds in High Point Solutions Stadium histor y were on
sophomore wide receiver Leonte Carroo, ever yone else vanished from his perspective. “My mom always gave me a saying ever since I was playing football that when the ball’s in the
air, ever ybody around you is invisible, and the only thing I see it the ball,” Carroo said. “I don’t see corners, I don’t see fans. I just see the ball, and I just attack the ball when it’s in the air.”
As the Rutgers football team trailed Arkansas, 24-21, the clutter toward the endzone disappeared for Carroo, which allowed him to smoothly catch the ball Saturday and clinch the Scarlet Knights’ 28-
24 victor y. It was Carroo’s second touchdown of the game with 5:18 left in the match, as he scored on fourth See COMEBACK on Page 16
Glee Club edits alma mater
Conference looks at Nigerian youth to lead economy By Ijeoma Unachukwu Staff Writer
As Nigeria’s economy grows, so must its youth to help facilitate the growth, and lead the country into a golden era. That was the resonating message at the end of the annual Nigerians in Diaspora Organization conference at the Renaissance hotel in Newark last Friday and Saturday. Albert Ayeni, programming director of NIDO, said the organization was founded in 2000 to utilize the resources of successful Nigerian diasporans all over the world to influence positive change in their homeland. “At the end of the day, we are all here to be our brothers’ keeper,” said Ayeni, a professor of the Department of Plant Biology and Pathology. The event, endorsed by Gov. Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, hosted dignitaries, professors, chiefs, governors and representatives from all over the country and around the world to discuss issues of See CONFERENCE on Page 5
The sculpture, designed by artist Julian Voss-Andreae, was installed Friday in front of the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research on Busch campus. SHAWN SMITH
$187,000 sculpture finds home on Busch campus By Shawn Smith Correspondent
A new sculpture titled “Synergy,” featuring a protein called collagen, has found a home on Busch campus. The sculpture, installed Friday morning, features three strands in-
terwoven in a vertical braid. It lies in the middle of the courtyard in front of the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research. “Synergy” costs $187,000, artist Julian Voss-Andreae said. Voss-Andreae said choosing red, blue and yellow for the sculpture See Sculpture on Page 6
The Rutgers University Glee Club performs at Highpoint Solutions Stadium for Convocation in 2012. THE DAILY TARGUM / SEPTEMBER 2012
By Julian Chokkattu News Editor
The 140-year-old alma mater underwent a change Friday, when Patrick Gardner, director of Choral Studies, announced revisions to the first verse of “On the Banks of the Old Raritan.” The song used to begin with, “My father sent me to old Rutgers / And resolv’d that I should be a man.” But the first line has been changed to, “From far and near we came to Rutgers / And resolved to learn all that we can.” The Rutgers University Glee Club sang the new revision for the first time at the New Student Convocation on Aug. 31, and Gardner said it was well
accepted. “A professor came up to me and said, ‘So I no longer have to sing that I’m a man,’” Gardner said. The Glee Club sang the new version officially after the announcement Saturday at the Rutgers-Arkansas football game. Gardner, director of the Glee Club, said he spent four years writing the new lyrics, trying to make them gender-neutral so any Rutgers student would feel included. “The whole 20 years I’ve been a professor, the issue has been on the table,” he said. “One half of the University has been singing that they See alma on Page 5
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The Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Arts Center and the Rutgers University program in cinema studies present a screening of New Jersey Film Festival selections “Poor Heart,” “A Night at the Office,” The Tale of Paris Echo Gold,” “Killer” and “Locomotive” at 7 p.m. at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. Admission is $10 for the general public and $9 for students and senior citizens.
Saturday, Sept. 28
The Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Arts Center and the Rutgers University program in cinema studies present a screening of New Jersey Film Festival selections “Melody,” “Richie” and “Casual Encounters” at 7 p.m. at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. Admission is $10 for the general public and $9 for students and senior citizens.
Sunday, Sept. 29
The Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Arts Center and the Rutgers University program in cinema studies present a screening of New Jersey Film Festival selections “Jersey Fresh: Films by New Jersey Filmmakers Kaleidoscope,” “I Have No Idea What The F**k I’m Doing” and “Sex & Violence” at 7 p.m. at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. Admission is $10 for the general public and $9 for students and senior citizens.
METRO CALENDAR Wednesday, Sept. 25
The Rutgers Cooperative Extension and Rutgers Against Hunger present the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Kilmer Square Park at 108 Albany St. in New Brunswick, The market, which runs ever y Wednesday, features local produce, artisan breads, baked goods, specialty coffee and locally raised meat.
Thursday, Sept. 26
The Rutgers University Programming Association presents “Beats on the Banks” at the State Theatre at 15 Livingston Ave. in New Brunswick, featuring hip-hop artists Joey Bada$$, A$AP Ferg and Ab-Soul. Tickets cost between $5 and $25. For more information, go to statetheatrenj.org
Sunday, Oct. 6
The City of New Brunswick, New Brunswick Tomorrow, Johnson & Johnson and Rutgers University present “Ciclovia” from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., between the Youth Sports Complex and Buccleuch Park in New Brunswick. The route, which includes Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Bayard Street, George Street, Hamilton Street and College Avenue, will be shut off to motor vehicles. For more information, visit newbrunswickciclovia.com.
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ROTC students return from month-long training Dan Natale Contributing Writer
Students enlisted in the Rutgers Reserve Officers’ Training Corps have come home after testing their grit and intelligence at a month-long training camp at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Ft. Lewis, Wash. The cadets have been training tirelessly, working from 4:30 a.m. until 10:30 p.m. for 28 days, said Cristina Trecate, Rutgers Army ROTC Public Affairs Officer. Rutgers ROTC, which received the honor of best overall drill training last year, is renowned among college ROTC programs. Trecate said of the 273 universities nationwide participating in the program, Rutgers is one of the best. “Compared to most of the schools we encounter, our cadets are some of the most well-educated,” she said. “We have a lot of 3.9 or higher GPA engineers who are also ROTC, which is a lot of responsibility.” Lt. Col. Samuel J. Welch, professor of Military Science, said
Rutgers achieved this status because of the high standards set by the faculty. Welch, who has served in the military for 21 years, said education is the program’s top priority. “Everything else is second to how you perform at school,” Welch said. “I managed to graduate with a solid 3.2 GPA. The standard I set for cadets is a 3.1.” Welch said the ROTC is great for any students interested in pursuing math, science, engineering or technology. The military is highly integrated with industry and teaches students these disciplines under intense, pressing circumstances. Second to academic per formance, he said the ROTC puts a high emphasis on leadership. The course is designed to put high levels of stress on cadets to force them to be decisive, and test their mental and physical abilities. “The goal is to get them to the point when, in the absence of leadership, [they are] able to pick the hard right instead of the easy wrong,” Welch said.
SINGING PRETTY Xiaohang Jie, a School of Arts and Science junior, performed yesterday in “RUVoice” hosted by the Rutgers Chinese Student and Scholar Association. DENNIS ZURAW
The next priority is physical fitness, he said. Training in the program is rigorous, which Lt. Robert Page, who graduated to an officer last year, can attest to. When he first joined Rutgers
“The goal is to get them to the point when, in the abscence of leadership, [they are] able to pick the hard right instead of the easy wrong.” Lt. Col. Samuel j. Welch Professor of Military Science
ROTC, Page said he weighed 310 pounds. Today he’s at 110. “My experience with the program was great. I came into the program extremely overweight. Everyone that was with me believed in me and helped me get through it,” Page said. He said the ROTC program taught him valuable lessons about life, especially the concept of bal-
ance. Due to his busy schedule, he learned the importance of making time for family, friends and the little things in life. What broadened his perspective were the people enlisted, who are extremely diverse, and working with people from an array of different backgrounds, he said. Diversity is another one of their primary focuses, Welch said. Along with the program’s math, science, engineering and technology courses, many of the classes focus on cultural awareness and language. “There is no fairer organization for women and different ethnicities,” Welch said. “Everyone is treated equally because everyone is equally important in completing the mission.” He said the male-female demographics actually match the ratio of the entirety of the University. Furthermore, female enrolment in the ROTC is higher than it has been in 10 years. Students enrolled in ROTC do not have to pay tuition, provided that they complete their degree in four years.
Although tasking, Welch said the program is not on the same level of physical intensity as other forms of military enrollment, such as basic training or boot camp. None of the Cadets are put into mortal danger during training, he said. It also does not prepare students for deployment overseas, he said. But many students do pursue fur ther militar y training during or after their involvement. Upon graduation, students are required to spend a minimum of three years as officers either in active duty, the National Guard or at the Reserves, Page said. Most who join end up spending more time in service to the military. Last year, the program had a 100 percent graduation rate and the same is expected for this year’s class, Welch said. “There has never been a moment in my career where I have been more proud to train America’s future business and military leaders,” Welch said.
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want to be a man.” He said the change was far from being his decision, but the Glee Club was heavily involved in discussion as well. “Over the past four years, there has been a lot of discussion over the Glee Club members. … Our own members aren’t comfortable singing the old lyrics,” Gardner said. Marc Romano, uniform manager for the Glee Club, said the group had heated debates about the possible changes whenever Gardner brought them up. “We’ve had pretty intense discussions about it, while most people were for the principle of the change, the major problem was making sure it was a seamless change. ... It definitely has been a long process, but it’s nice that we’ve been able to discuss it as a group and say that we’re all in support for it,” said Romano, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. Since the song is public domain, Gardner said there is no process for changing the alma mater. Howard Fuller, a member of the Glee Club at the time, wrote the song in 1873 and the Glee Club has changed it throughout the years. “The alma mater has to be ever changing. It is an ever-evolving entity that has to update with the times,” he said. Austin Tamatus, president of the Glee Club, said the club tries to be mindful of the messages in the songs they sing. They think about the meaning of the alma mater both in historical and current context. “Because of [that], it’s necessary to change the lyrics, meaning and spirit of the music to all of Rutgers and not leave it as some historical reference,” said Tamatus, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. The new lyrics were displayed on the LED strip circling the stadium Saturday at the Rutgers-Arkansas game. According to nj.com, in the 1980s, “my boys” was changed to “my friends” to reflect the changing times. “Twenty years ago, I would have said [changing the lyrics] would have been problematic,” Gardner said. “But we changed it from ‘my boys’ to ‘my friends,’ it changed again, and it was moving forward with a revision that would sing well with us performers and would fit with current students.” Romano, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, said after seeing a few articles posted about the change online, he saw some comments that have been negative. He said there was some negative feedback at the football game this past weekend as well. “As we were beginning the song, we could hear some boos, but then it changed over to applause as we finished the alma mater,” he said. He said the negative feedback is minimal compared to the amount of support they have received, “As a member, I think it’s a positive and necessary change,” Romano said. “The alma mater represents the University as a whole and since our founding, we’ve changed drastically, especially with being coed. We want something that is all encompassing and inclusive because that’s what we represent here with the vast diversity.”
homeland relations, power, national security and trade and investments. Steve Akinboro, executive vice president of Domino’s, Abike Dabiri Erewa, a member of the Nigerian House of Representatives and Kashim Shettima, Governor of Borno State, Nigeria were among some of the recognized dignitaries. While at times they disagreed, they all shared a common love for their homeland. The NIDO conference focused on discussing trade and investments. Conversations were centered on the empowerment of minority groups, youth and women to invest in the lucrative resources Nigeria has to offer. Akinboro mentioned the booming economy of Africa and urged the youth especially to take advantage of it.
According to the Har vard Business Review, Africa has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with an average annual economic growth of at least 5 percent and an ever-increasing market oppor tunity. “The biggest era of economic revolution in the next decade will happen in our continent, and what are we doing about it?” Akinboro said. He also said oil and natural resources are not the only wor thwhile investments to make in Africa — he believes the biggest investment Nigeria has is its youth. “The role of the youth should be to fully leverage the use of the workforce,” he said. “They need to find the skills they’re good at and develop those skills.” Carol Frazer, marketing executive for The Economist, and Yetunde Odugbesan-Omede, a young entrepreneur, were also featured in the panel discussion. They brought up the plight of the invisible children of Nigeria — the 10 to 12 million children unaccounted for who spend their time wandering the streets.
That younger generation could be the next boom in the workforce, but instead they have no education, no plans and no future, Frazer said. “Instead, we have ver y incompetent people in our coun-
“The role of the youth should be to fully leverage the use of the workforce. They need to find the skills they’re good at and develop those skills.” STEVE AKINBORO Executive Vice President of Domino’s
tr y that have jobs that ver y competent people could do,” she said. Odugbesan-Omede, a Rutgers alumna, sympathized with college students and urged Nigerians on college campuses to educate their peers about their homeland. Many of the participants believed that before the trade in Nigeria could take off, the nation had to tighten up its security.
In the past couple of years, the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram has risen and destroyed houses, schools and businesses in the nor thern regions of Nigeria. Shettima was especially passionate about how the lack of national security af fects the economic success of the countr y. “Checkpoints are ever ywhere. Roads are closed down … ships are systematically raided, markets destroyed, schools burned, teachers killed,” Shettima said. “How can we move for ward when we can’t take care of the people who are holding us back?” The conference also had an exhibition hall featuring passpor t ser vices, financial literacy pamphlets and free health and wellness screenings. Keynote speaker, Nnayelugo Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe, a representative, or “Obi,” of Onitsha, stressed the importance of the event. “We need to begin from inside our community to tr y and transform our community,” Achebe said.
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took a lot of thought. “It’s a bit of a balance, you know,” he said. “In nature, those three strands are exactly the same. To color them differently is a departure from that, but it makes sense. Together they make up the primary colors, which together can make all sorts of colors.” Voss-Andreae, an artist from Hamburg, Germany, living in Portland, Ore., said after working in the field of physics, he realized his true passion was creating art. When he began to pursue his doctoral degree and looked at jellyfish proteins for the first time, he noticed their green florescence. “I saw Google images of this [green fluorescent protein], and I was totally blown away,” he said. “It was seeing how they connect [that intrigued me].” Stephen Burley, director of the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, said the sculpture is symbolic of Rutgers. The three strands are representative of what Rutgers offers as a whole. “Blood vessels are surrounded by collagen, it is vital for the integrity of the body,” he said. “This is symbolic of the bridge between the basic sciences, the medical school and the arts.” Christine Zardecki, a research associate at the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research, said the sculpture has always been a
September 23, 2013 part of the plan for the new Proteomics building. Though the building is about a year old, she said, plans for the collagen sculpture have been in the works for about two years. The founding director of the building, Helen Berman, has been a fan of Voss-Andreae’s work and wanted him to design something for the new building, Zardecki said. Zardecki said Berman determined the first structure of collagen while here at Rutgers, so they felt it was a natural fit. “[We chose Voss-Andreae] because he’s done a lot of sculptures of protein structures,” Zardecki said. The CIPR is also home to the Protein Data Bank, an online archive for tens of thousands of proteins and nucleic acids, she said. Voss-Andreae said the bank is a resource he has used since 2001 to get the designs for his sculptures. After graduating from the Pacific Northwest College of Art, Voss-Andreae said one of the first sculptures he made was based on a collagen protein. This provided the inspiration for the design of the sculpture now located on Busch campus. “I know [Berman] came across my work somehow,” he said. “But I’ve been using the [Protein Data Bank] to turn these structures into instructions for my sculptures. In 2011 they reached out to me and said they would like a collagen, so that was clear from the get go.” Collagen is one of Voss-Andreae’s favorite molecules, and he said he was happy to create the sculpture for Rutgers. “It’s an important protein, because it’s the most abundant pro-
tein in our bodies,” he said. “It has this tightrope structure, and plays a role in cell development. It’s an intriguing molecule for the whole machinery of life.” To start the sculpture, Voss-Andreae used a computer program to turn a three-dimensional image of the protein into cutting instructions, he said. He built a model of collagen in his computer to get the right structure. “When it was a go, I started out building a very precise model of it,” he said. For the sculpture, he said he had to special order square tubing used to build skyscrapers and stainless steel instead of traditional steel. While he waited two months for the steel, he said he ran simulations against the model, including one of how it would hold up in the elements. “You make a pattern of what the laser will cut on the metal,” he said. “Without a laser you could never get it this precise. That’s a step where you can’t make a mistake, especially because you can’t even order the steel anymore.” The whole process ran smoothly, Voss-Andreae said, including the installation. The sculpture was raised and installed in less than four hours on a sunny Friday morning. “It is amazing that it’s here,” he said. “It went incredibly smooth, I have to say. I’m pretty excited that we’ve made this one.” On Thursday, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will hold a symposium honoring Berman from 1 to 5 p.m., Burley said. Following the symposium, there will be a dedication of the sculpture.
The sculture, which costs $187,000 represents the protein collagen, which is found in the body. SHAWN SMITH
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Republicans push for food stamp cuts, moderates push back WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican House leaders are working to line up votes for nearly $4 billion in annual food stamp cuts, but some GOP moderates are questioning if that is too much. The savings would be achieved by allowing states to put broad new work requirements in place for many food stamp recipients and to test applicants for drugs. The House is scheduled to vote on the bill Thursday. The bill also would end government waivers that have allowed able-bodied adults who don’t have dependents to receive food stamps indefinitely. Conservatives have said the almost $80 billion-a-year program has become bloated. More than 47 million Americans, or 1 in 7, are now on food stamps, and the program’s cost has more than doubled in the last five years as the economy has struggled. But finding a compromise — and the votes — to scale back the feeding program has been difficult. Conservatives have insisted on larger cuts, while Democrats have been united in opposition and moderate Republicans from areas with high food stamp usage have been wary of efforts to slim the program. “I think the cuts are too drastic and too draconian,” says Republican Rep. Michael Grimm of New York, who represents Staten Island, which was hard hit by Hurricane Sandy last year. “Those that really need the program will suffer.”
Grimm says he plans to vote against the bill. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, also plans a “no” vote, according to his spokesman, Michael Anderson. He said Young is concerned about the impact the cuts could have on people in his state’s poorest, most rural areas. With some Republicans wavering, Thursday’s vote could be close. The GOP leaders have been reaching out to moderates to ensure their support while anti-hunger groups have similarly worked to garner opposition. The food stamp legislation is the House’s effort to finish work on a wide-ranging farm bill, which has historically included both farm programs and food stamps. The House Agriculture Committee approved a combined bill earlier this year, but it was defeated on the floor in June after conservatives revolted, saying the cuts to food stamps were not high enough. That bill included around $2 billion in cuts annually. After the farm bill defeat, Republican leaders split the legislation in two and passed a bill in July that included only farm programs. They promised the food stamp bill to come later, with deeper cuts. Republicans have emphasized that the bill targets able-bodied adults who do not have dependents and would allow states to implement work requirements that are similar to the 1996 welfare law that led to a decline in people receiving that government assistance. — The Associated Press
IN BRIEF FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Authorities have identified the man who was killed in a two-vehicle crash in central New Jersey that left two other people hospitalized. Forty-year-old Marlboro resident Daniel Velba was pronounced dead at the scene of Friday night’s crash at Route 9 and Schanck Road in Freehold Township. Authorities say Velba was southbound on Route 9 when his car and a vehicle driven by 52-year-old John Johnson Jr. of Middletown collided around 11 p.m. Johnson’s vehicle was crossing the highway when the crash occurred, going from Route 79 onto Schanck Road. Velba’s car burst into the flames moments after the crash occurred. Johnson and a passenger in his car, 52-year-old Colleen Coppa of Middletown, were treated at a hospital for undisclosed injuries. The cause of the accident remains under investigation. PATERSON, N.J. — A New York City man faces numerous drug-related charges after authorities say they found nearly eight pounds of heroin in his sport utility vehicle. Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik says 29-year-old Emmanuel Valdez of the Bronx,
a Dominican Republic national who was living in the U.S. illegally, was arrested late Friday afternoon in Paterson. The traffic stop stemmed from an investigation that began with an anonymous tip. Authorities say Valdez provided officers with a Connecticut driver’s license that had a fictitious name and a fictitious Social Security card. After getting permission to search the car, authorities found a blue backpack containing 210 bricks of heroin valued at about $450,000. Valdez also was wanted in New York City on a cocaine distribution charge that dated back to 2006. NEW YORK — New York Sen. Charles Schumer is pushing legislation to give the federal government a greater ability to regulate chemicals used in the deadly club drug known as “molly.” There has been a rash of overdoses involving the drug. It is a form of MDMA, or ecstasy. Schumer says dealers are getting around federal law by slightly tweaking the chemical composition of banned substances. He is also urging a new focus on MDMA labs by the New York and New Jersey High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area group and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. — The Associated Press
President Barack Obama speaks to workers at the Ford Kansas City Stamping Plant on Sept. 20 in Liberty, Mo. Obama spoke at the plant after the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding measure, but also defunding the president’s health care legislation, which may lead to a government shutdown. GETTY IMAGES
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Anti-fracking and Keystone XL pipeline activists demonstrate in lower Manhattan on Sept. 21 in New York City. Across the country numerous protests are planned on what activists are calling a national day of action to “Draw the Line” on tar sands, Keystone XL and fracking, which many people believe are contributing to climate change and other environmental issues affecting communities. The controversial Keystone XL pipeline project looks to get U.S. permission to funnel Canada’s carbon-heavy oil sands across the United States to refineries on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coasts. GETTY IMAGES
Republicans attempting to force budget cuts
WASHINGTON D.C. — House Republicans are considering demanding Medicare and other budget savings — reining in the Obama administration’s environmental agenda including greenhouse gas restrictions — as well as other proposals as the price for extending the government’s ability to borrow money, GOP lawmakers and aides said Friday. Republicans said that during closed-door discussions this week about what to include in upcoming legislation renewing federal borrowing authority, options have included blocking administration plans to curb coal ash pollution, forcing civil servants to contribute more to their retirement
plans, and requiring Congress to approve many major regulations. Other items considered all but certain to be included are a oneyear delay in Obama’s 2010 health care law, an easing of obstacles to building the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the Texas coast,and a timeline for enactment of a broad tax code overhaul. The proposals, for which no final decisions have been made, represent many of the GOP’s top legislative priorities and are sure to run into opposition from President Barack Obama and the Democratic-led Senate. Obama has said he wants Congress to send him legislation that simply extends the government’s $16.7
trillion debt limit, and has said he will not negotiate it. The government is expected to exhaust its ability to borrow money in mid- to late October. That would threaten a first-ever federal default, which many analysts believe would deal a severe blow to the economy. Top Republicans have said they do not want a federal default and have noted that past presidents, including Obama in 2011, have negotiated over past bills to extend the debt limit. Congressional officials described most of the options on condition of anonymity to reveal internal discussions. But some lawmakers described some of the plans openly.
Rep. James Lankford, (R-Okla.), a member of the House GOP leadership team, said leaders were discussing a debt limit extension bill that would include budget savings at least equaling the amount by which the debt limit was being increased. He said the savings would come from a still-undetermined mix of agency budgets and entitlement programs — automatically paid benefit programs that include Medicare and Social Security. Lankford said some savings would be measured over a longer period of time than the usual 10year window, perhaps over 30 or even 75 years. The time period “has to pass the smell test” and not be unrealistic, he said.
Measuring budget reductions over longer periods of time makes it easier to accumulate larger claimed savings. GOP officials said other possible provisions under discussion have included: - Blocking the Federal Communications Commission’s “net neutrality” rules, which forbid Internet providers from discriminating against firms that provide content and other services over their networks. - Eliminating funds for some financial industry bailouts, with estimated 10-year savings of $20 billion or more, for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and social services block grants. — The Associated Press
Atlantic City warehouse slated to become area’s first medical marijuana dispensary
BAVARIAN BEER Visitors wearing traditional Bavarian clothes sit outside the Hacker-Pschorr tent at the Oktoberfest 2013 beer festival at Theresienwiese on Sept. 22 in Munich, Germany. The Munich Oktoberfest, which this year will run from Sept. 21 through Oct. 6, is the world’s largest beer fest and draws millions of visitors. GETTY IMAGES
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — There are no signs out front, but people still show up at a drab beige warehouse outside Atlantic City to ask whether medical marijuana is available. Inside the cavernous building, 1,500 plants are growing beneath glowing fuchsia, yellow, and white LED lights inside a makeshift room. Soon, the sweet-smelling, leafy plants will be har vested. They now stand 18 inches tall, each in a three-gallon pot, after three months of nur turing. Growers in white lab coats fussed over them last week, culling out unwanted half-male half-female specimens while three N.J. health inspectors watched. In about two weeks, the cannabis will be gathered, dried and packaged. William Thomas, Compassionate Care Foundation’s hands-on CEO, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the bar-code number on each seed will be checked again when the final product is placed in a vial. Then, on Oct. 15, CCF hopes to open, becoming South Jersey’s first dispensar y. But don’t envision patients lining up at the clinic’s entrance at the front of the warehouse, in
an industrial park in this suburban community, 9 miles from the ocean. No walk-ins are allowed. Since medical marijuana was legalized in New Jersey nearly four years ago, a dizzying array of regulations have been drafted by the state health depar tment to restrict access to registered patients who have one of a dozen debilitating conditions. A licensed physician must grant approval, and patients may buy only 2 ounces per month. Illuminated signs, logos and ads are prohibited so as not to attract loiterers and the ineligible, including out-of-staters. That has not prevented the curious from stopping by. The marijuana business is new to the area. While 21 states allow it, Pennsylvania does not. CCF’s website, www.ccfnj.org, lists its address: 100 Centur y Drive. Thomas, who worked as a health-insurance industr y executive for 40 years, says sales will be by appointment only. To gain entr y, an anticipated 40 patients a day will have to show a guard a state-issued photo ID card. Sur veillance cameras increase security. “Most of our patients are ver y sick. The marijuana is medicine,” he said.
Once inside, patients will be greeted by registered nurses who discuss ways to smoke or vaporize the cannabis buds. The cost: $400 an ounce. It’s not covered by insurance, so patients must make financial arrangements. CCF will help indigents. Patients also might expect a wet nudge from Jake, Thomas’ friendly 6-year-old yellow Lab, who was trained as a therapy dog to calm anxious patients. “You can’t help but be happy when you see him,” Thomas says, as Jake throws a ball to him. CCF will be the state’s second dispensar y, after Greenleaf Compassion Center, which opened in December in Montclair. But CCF will be markedly dif ferent. Greenleaf’s operators struggled to meet the demand and ended up ser ving only 130 patients, leaving 1,000 others on a wait list. Those who paid $200 to register last year have bitterly complained. CCF plans a much larger operation. Upon opening, it will have enough cannabis for 1,500 patients. — The Associated Press
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Researchers develop antidote for poisonous digoxin By Ingrid J. Paredes Staff Writer
In 2003, the “Angel of Death” Charles Cullen admitted to the murder of 40 hospital patients across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Cullen, a former nurse, used the cardiac drug digoxin as his weapon to commit his crimes over a period of 16 years. Ten years later, a team of Rutgers and University of Washington chemists has developed an antidote to the poisonous drug. In a “Nature” paper entitled “Computational Design of Ligand Binding Proteins with High Affinity and Selectivity,” the chemists introduce DIG10.3, a protein that binds to, and therefore inhibits, digoxin. DIG10.3 binds to the digoxin molecule as tightly as a glove fits a hand, said Sagar Khare, co-author of the paper. “It’s a lock-and-key mechanism,” said Khare, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Khare said his team decided to design the drug because of digoxin’s narrow therapeutic window. “The difference between a therapeutic dose and an overdose is very small,” he said. Even if a patient lives from digoxin poisoning, he said, the drug commonly causes side effects including visual disturbances like seeing halos and intense shades of yellow. Khare said post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh was an example of a person who saw im-
ages patients would see while on the drug. Scholars speculate Van Gogh received digoxin-rich foxglove plant to treat his epilepsy, Khare said, referring to an article published in the Journal of American Medical Association. Van Gogh’s paintings, including his famous work “Starry Night,” feature intense yellow halos. With this anecdote and the murders by Cullen, Khare said the atmosphere was right for focusing the researchers’ efforts on digoxin. Khare said currently, proteins called antibodies exist in the blood to chemically combine toxins like digoxin, but they are difficult to make and test for scientific use because they require animal subjects. He said other proteins are a cheaper and more effective alternative to the antibodies. “There was a high medical need for an antidote,” he said. The most exciting part of the team’s method, though, is its generality. Khare said the team could theoretically develop a protein to bind to any molecule. “They are made-to-order,” he said. The team began their design with a molecular model of the protein, said co-author Jorgen Nelson, a third-year graduate student at the University of Washington. The model determines which amino acid components of the protein the team needs to replicate. Once the team knows which amino acids to use, Nelson said, the researchers input the data
Sagar Khare, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, along with his research team, came up with an antidote for digoxin, a cardiac drug lethal in high doses. LEO YU into software called Rosetta, developed in co-author David Baker’s laboratory at the University of Washington. According to its website, Rosetta models intra-molecular and intermolecular interactions to predict the shape of proteins in nature. Christine Tinberg, a post-doctoral fellow in Baker’s laboratory, said the program begins by matching the team’s data with a protein listed in the Protein Data Bank, an online repository for information about the 3D structures of proteins and other organic molecules. Once the program produces a shape the team finds desirable, the team purchases DNA to grow
the proteins in bacteria. They then extract the protein and test how well it binds to target molecules, like DIG10.3 did with digoxin, she said. She said the team took almost two years to develop the version of DIG10.3 featured in the paper. The protein binds almost perfectly to digoxin. Now, the team is working with the researchers in the laboratory of Charalampos Kalodimos, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, to understand how the binding occurs. Khare said understanding the mechanism will make Rosetta’s algorithm more accurate, producing better binders.
The team is also continuing improvement on DIG10.3. Their next goal is to develop the protein into a sensor for disease indicators, Tinberg said. She said the team’s method could solve problems beyond medicine. “The proteins could even be used as bioscavengers, soaking up toxins from the environment,” she said. Nelson shared Tinberg’s hope. He said this method could become a mainstream solution to drug design and beyond. “Given the amazing variety of roles proteins fill in the natural world, I think there’s very little we shouldn’t eventually be able to do with them,” he said.
University alumnus fuses blogging with research By Ingrid J. Paredes Staff Writer
Typically regarded as an exclusive group, scientists are taking their work out of the laboratory and into the blogosphere. Aatish Bhatia, an alumnus of the Rutgers doctoral physics program, has spent the last two years explaining scientific topics on his blog, “Empirical Zeal.” His blog focuses on discoveries and ideas that tie together biology and physics, he said. Examples from his blog include explanations on volcanic activity and the motion of sperm. “I cover the bits that blow my mind,” he writes on the blog’s introductory page. In 2012, Bhatia’s blog won the 3 Quarks Daily Top Quarks Prize in science. The Scientific American Books collection featured his piece “What it feels like for a sperm” as a part of The Best Science Writing Online 2012. In another post, “The physics of that ‘kickalicious’ kick,” he analyzes the physics behind the video of a Norwegian man’s kicks during an NFL tryout for the New York Jets. He uses basic algebra and graphs to track the ball’s trajectory in the air. Byliner.com’s 102 Spectacular Nonfiction Stories from 2012 and Longform’s Best Science Stories
of 2012 have also acknowledged his work. “Empirical Zeal” is moving to the science blog network of Wired.com, an online technology magazine, he said. Wired’s science blog network hosts 10 other bloggers, and has more than 14,400 followers on Twitter. Wired attracts an average of 76,271,080 page views per month, according to its website. Bhatia began his blogging career under the influence of popular science books and Discover magazine blogs like Ed Yong’s “Not Exactly Rocket Science” and Carl Zimmer’s “The Loom.” The blogs exposed Bhatia to biology, a field he said he knew little about during his time as a graduate student. This influenced him to shift his research focus toward how natural selection impacts different organisms. “The idea really is to show people that there’s neat science behind seemingly mundane things,” he said. Bhatia said the desire to communicate science from daily experiences grew out of the philosophy he embraced while teaching at Rutgers and earning his graduate degree. “Science isn’t dry textbook stuff. … [I] try and make connections between fields, and connect class-
room learning to real life experiences,” he said. In the spring of 2013, he taught a course that required students to blog under the guidance of physics faculty members Michael Manhart, Deepak Iyer, Simon Knapen and Bhatia himself. He said the most important part about incorporating blogging into his class was the feedback students received from their peers and instructors. “Some of the students were really able to take full advantage of the blog medium and demonstrate creativity,” he said. Bhatia said academics have traditionally attached a negative stigma to blogging, but scientists and active bloggers like Sean Carroll and Jonathon Eisen are proving otherwise. He said most science bloggers write because it is fun and rewarding to connect to an audience. “After all, we’re all sharing the cost of science through our taxes, so it’s only fair that more people should share the intellectual rewards that come out of it,” he said. This semester, Bhatia extended his outreach as an educator as well. At the beginning of September, he began his position as the associate director of engineering education at the Council on Science and Technology at Princeton University.
Aatish Bhatia, an alumnus of the Rutgers doctoral physics program, combines his love of research with his passion for writing on his scientific blog. NISHA DATT / PHOTO EDITOR The council’s mission is to ensure all of the university’s students can think like scientists, according to its website. The council focuses
on humanities and social sciences majors especially. “We want people to care about [science],” he said.
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Don’t call Rutgers ugly, okay? Top 50 ugliest colleges list can kiss our fat sandwiches
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Some of our buildings may be hideous — we’ll o, Complex Magazine, of all publications, decided to take some jabs at us last week. They be the first ones to admit that since we have to atpublished a list of what they claim to be the 50 tend classes in them everyday — but big changes ugliest college campuses in the country. Of course, are happening on campus right now. From new conRutgers University, which became the brunt of a lot struction to a revolutionized campus to school mergof jokes this past year, made the list. With all that ers and ascensions, to say that Rutgers is totally upwe had to deal with, Complex is now calling us ugly. grading itself would be modest. Livingston campus has become an oasis of everyWait, that really hurt, someone fetch us a tissue! Rutgers-New Brunswick came in at #26, even uglier thing awesome. Its new apartment buildings are than the University of New Mexico. Ouch. Complex now arguably the most beautiful among the camsays that “as New Jersey’s flagship university,” we’re al- puses, framed by all-new retail stores like a market ready “off to a rough start.” Honestly, for representing and nail salon. Livingston is only a sign of what’s the supposed “armpit of America,” we think we’re do- to come for Rutgers — all the construction plaguing College Avenue might ing pretty well for ourselves. be an eyesore right now, But before we delve we’ll probably be cominto that, we’d just like to “To say that Rutgers is totally up- but pletely taken aback when remind Complex and all the campus emerges from its readers that the magagrading itself would be modest.” its metamorphosis. zine’s founder is a Rutgers Last week, Rutgers had alum: Marc Ecko. Does his its College Avenue redelast name sound familiar? He’s the designer behind the Eckoō Unlimited cloth- velopment groundbreaking ceremony, attended by ing line, and the mastermind behind an entire empire Gov. Chris Christie and countless others. About $330 million is going into the project, which includes of businesses beyond that. Scarlet pride right there. a new academic building, a residential honors colBut, anyway. Rutgers-New Brunswick is huge — it spans two cit- lege and a new student apartment building. On top ies and five whole campuses. Because of how spread of that, the recent UMDNJ merger and our addition out it is, one can easily see how inconsistent the ar- to the Big Ten mean mo’ money, mo’ buildings. Nice chitecture is. In fact, it wasn’t until 2007 that these buildings, at that. Basically, Rutgers will become that ridiculously campuses, which each contained their own individual college, merged together under the Rutgers-New good-looking kid that you wish you noticed when he Brunswick umbrella. But, because of that, each cam- was in his awkward phase. Sure, we’re ugly — right now — but what we lack pus has its own unique feel and personality. There’s something for everybody. And while Rutgers is a huge in appearance we make up for in personality. Our state school, because of its spread-out campuses it can university’s ambition and vision is unrivaled. And, we have some pretty good fat sandwiches. be either as big or as small as you want to make it.
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Budget cuts should not shorten dining hall hours COMMUNITY MATTERS SAM BERMAN
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utgers’ dining halls are — right up there with the buses — one of the most important services provided by Rutgers to its 40,000-plus undergraduate students. But as an institution, dining is poorly understood. This confusion has no doubt helped fuel the recent anger over the dining halls’ new hours. For the past several years — since I’ve been a student, anyway — the dining halls have all stayed open until 9 p.m., so that if you get out of class at 8:40 p.m., you still had time to book it to Brower Commons or to the Busch Campus Center to grab the last slice of pizza before the place shut down. Only the kids who were in class until 9 p.m. or later — and there weren’t many of those — were stuck choosing takeout or paying out-of-pocket for their last meal of the day. This year, students have discovered the hard way that the dining halls close at 8 p.m. — a full hour earlier than last year. And students aren’t happy about this. There is a petition currently making its way around on Change.org that has, last time I looked, more than 1,000 signatures. Clearly, students want the dining halls open until 9 p.m. First, we need to understand what happened. Dining Services is an approximately $70,000,000 operation. It is considered an auxiliary unit of the university. This means
it has to be entirely self-sufficient — none of its money comes from the university budget. Dining Services is responsible for collecting every dollar it plans to spend. It raises this money primarily from charging for meal plans, as well as catering services and other complementary sources of revenue. But, like any business, Dining Services’ costs go up every year. Specifically, Dining Services has seen dramatic cost increases in labor, fringe benefits, which are nonwage compensation such as insurance, utilities and the cost of raw food. To compensate for these cost increases, Din-
the Board of Governors and the Rutgers administration are ignoring our pleas. But they’re not. As this episode shows, our continued refrain has an impact on how they think — and when auxiliary units ask for a 5-percent increase in fees and that increase is denied in favor of a smaller one, we ought to take it as a small victory. Now, this happens to be, in my view, an inappropriate place to cut. Students depend on having reliable access to food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and any student who has class until 8 p.m. now does not have access to that. Sure, take-
“Students depend on having reliable access to food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and any student who has class until 8:00pm now does not have access to that.” ing Services asked the University to raise fees for meal plans about 5 percent. The Board of Governors did not grant them their requested increase but instead raised the cost of meal plans on average by about 2.9 percent. Thus, Dining Services was left with costs exceeding their revenue collection and was forced to make cuts. Shaving an hour off the dining halls each day saves Dining Services about $150,000. So my first point is that there is an upside to this dining debacle. With the cost of tuition and fees increasing every year, sometimes it’s easy to forget that we are having an impact. When we rally for a tuition freeze and get a 3-percent-plus tuition increase in response, it’s easy to think that
out is still open, but it is not as accessible to many students. Long lines and limited options ensure that this is a much less appealing option on the whole. And Joseph Charette, the director of Dining Services has, to his credit, indicated a willingness to work with the student government to find cuts elsewhere to make sure the dining halls can stay open until 9 p.m. and remain financially sound. There certainly are other options. Special events such as King Neptune night cost a lot of money to run, and eliminating some of these events could save money. As a matter of quality, dining services tend to err on the more expensive side when it purchases food, sticking with name brands and high-quality products,
rather than the cheaper options. When Dining Services made the decision to cut back on the dining halls’ hours, they did so believing that was what students wanted, as opposed to other cuts. It seems as though they may have been mistaken. The Rutgers University Student Assembly is actively working with Dining Services to collect information about these cuts and to come up with some solutions that will benefit students. But to succeed, we need to know how you feel. So if you would rather not buy name-brand food to save money and keep the dining halls open later, let us know. If you think King Neptune night is a waste of time and would rather see some savings there, let us know. Or, if you learned something you didn’t know from this column and believe that closing the dining halls an hour earlier on weekdays is the lesser of evils, then please, let us know. You can email us at rusa.assembly@gmail.com, or call us at 848-9329593. You can even drop us a comment at http://ruassembly.com/report-a-concernissue, or come by our office in the Rutgers Student Center, room 438, and talk to us in person. Whatever your thoughts on the matter, RUSA wants to know, so that we can make the best decision in helping students have the best services possible while ensuring that Dining Services stays in the black. Sam Berman is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in political science with minors in economics and history. His column, “Community Matters,” runs on alternate Mondays.
American exceptionalism in need of better direction COMMENTARY ZAGHAM CHAUDRY
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ot long ago, President Barack Obama stated in a speech to the nation that we Americans are different from the rest of the world, that in some way we are exceptional. Rather than defending American exceptionalism or going on a rant about how America’s record on human rights since its founding is not all that exceptional, I want to rise above these debates and offer an important yet often forgotten method of thinking about American exceptionalism. If the formula proposed in this essay is ever permanently embraced by the psyche of the majority of the American people, the United States will be able to thrive and prosper for hundreds of years to come. Abraham Lincoln stated, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” We can deduce from this and numerous other quotes from great thinkers that if the problem lies within, so does the solution. It lies with the people. Because we live in a country that is the leading economic, military, scientific and technological power in the world, we as citizens of this nation hold a special re-
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sponsibility that the citizens of no other nation have the privilege to possess. This responsibility, though it may seem simple, has the potential to greatly influence the decisions that the U.S. government makes. This is extremely important because it gives us, the people, the power to prevent or at least force our government to think twice about any mistake it might later regret. We cannot ignore this
been successful, as in the case of the United States, does not mean it will necessarily continue to be. Today, we see multiple signs of where the government is overstepping its bounds because the people have become complacent and have refused to be critical of what happens behind closed doors in Washington. Government spying on everyday Americans, the continued unconstitutional surveillance of American
“Government spying on everyday Americans, the continued unconstitutional surveillance of American Muslims, and the preference of certain demographic groups over others ... are only a few examples of what happens if the people don’t engage the government.” responsibility. We owe it not only to our progeny, but also to the rest of the world to make sure that our nation makes the best decisions possible. Whatever decisions the United States makes will have major global political, economic and/or military consequences. So what exactly is this method of thinking? The method is nothing new, but from time to time it has to be renewed within the consciousness of a people who begin to rely on and trust the intentions of a government too much. This is dangerous. Just because the government of a nation has
Muslims and the preference of certain demographic groups over others all in the name of security are only a few examples of what happens if the people don’t engage the government. As Benjamin Franklin wrote, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” One of our founding fathers James Madison once said: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” Today, we must realize that no government is perfect, and therefore we, the people, must keep them in check.
How do we keep government in check? The solution has its roots in Western philosophy and lies with what the enlightenment thinkers advocated — reason and critical thinking. Our duty is to analyze the information that is given to us and make a logical decision based on the evidence. This means we should not always believe ever ything the government or the media tells us. We cannot afford to assume we are always being told the truth. Instead, we must take the facts and use our own intelligence to come to our own conclusions. An example of this method working effectively is the recent debate about whether we should intervene in Syria. I don’t know whether or not an American attack on the Syrian regime would be a good idea, but what I do know is the government was ready to attack. It was only because the American people refused to support a strike on Syria that we reached a possibly peaceful deal. Otherwise, the Obama administration was ready to make a hasty decision, which might have had negative consequences. So, my message to all of you is to take an active role and not allow others to do the thinking for you — this is what true American exceptionalism is all about. Zagham Chaudry is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in political science.
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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black
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Today’s Birthday (09/23/13). Priorities this year include finances, your partner, home, travel and career. Seek knowledge, explore and study new cultures. Pace yourself; it’s easy to over-commit. Cultivate your networks. Discipline with finances serves you well. Unexpected change impacts your circle. Care for health and wellness. Contribute to a cause that inspires. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6 — Release your imagination and add some passion to the colorful blend. Rely on your mate’s wisdom. Increase exercise, with extra points for location beauty. Friends want to follow your guidance. Take time to provide coaching and instruction. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — There could be a temporary setback. Watch out for accidents. Caution is advised. Travel later, or add extra time for delays. You’re creatively busy this month. Look for ways to add efficiency. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 7 — Expand your income sources. Good news comes from far away. Play by the book. One good turn leads to another. Postpone an outing unless it’s to take a walk outdoors. A physical workout provides strength and release. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 5 — Postpone romance (and sweeten with enticements) until the job gets done. There’s more to it than you thought. Don’t believe everything you hear. Express your emotional biases before choosing. Someone has a brilliant insight. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6 — Make a new commitment. Take care to avoid breakage or crazy expense. Don’t go exactly by the book. Leave your savings intact. Passions get stirred, and creativity flourishes. Co-workers get wind of it. Family members grow closer. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 5 — Controversy arises. A difficult job goes easier with help, so ask. Apply energy to your career and make up ground. Finishing old projects brings in extra cash (and satisfaction). Fix up your place, especially the garden. Get outdoors.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 5 — Emotions interfere with logic. Choose whatever is most important. Friends bring encouragement. Avoid distractions. Hold off on an assignment unless you can draw upon hidden resources and delegate. Get organized. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 5 — Postpone an outing or expansion. Write a story, song or screenplay. Study with a passion. Clean up, but don’t throw out someone else’s stuff. Others buy in to your plans. You’ve got a mutually beneficial arrangement. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — Lovely thoughts linger from sweet dreams. Don’t avoid work or spend impulsively today. Provide for others. You’re an inspiration. Work smarter for ease. It’s all coming together due to work you’ve already done. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 5 — Get public with your work. Support the people who support you. Don’t try to buy influence ... it’s unnecessary. You’re already making a good impression. Controversy could erupt. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 5 — There could be difficulties with travel now, so take care. Find time to meditate or relax. A partner is excited. Saving money is possible. Expand your list of social contacts. Paint, draw or make music. Use red sparingly. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 5 — More work is required. Keep control of expenses. Ask for help. You may find yourself at an impasse with a loved one. Continue to produce results. Don’t gamble now (or bankroll a gambler). Add to savings instead. Pamper yourself.
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Freshman Janarion Grant dashes on a punt return, becoming the first Knight since Willie Foster in 2005 to score on a kickoff and punt return in the same season. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
success Grant legitimizes chances for Rutgers to defend AAC special teams award continued from back
Sophomore tight end Tyler Kroft hauls in a 15-yard touchdown in Saturday’s 28-24 win against Arkansas. Kroft has six catches. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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ready to go and I put them back in.” James finished with 17 carries for 80 yards and received most of the Knights’ carries. With James sidelined for at least three weeks, junior Savon Huggins moved back up the depth char t as the feature back. Huggins finished with nine carries for 21 yards, which included seven rushes after James left. He picked up a crucial first down on an 11-yard carr y, which allowed Rutgers to run out the clock. Freshman Justin Goodwin also saw action Saturday with one carr y for no gain. Flood also said redshirt freshman running back Desmon Peoples will get an opportunity to receive carries. Those three will have the task of replacing James, who has 573 yards rushing in four games. “It is absolutely a next man up mentality on our football team,” Flood said. “Now we have other players that will get an opportunity to play.”
Tyler Kroft
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productive receiving day of his career, as the sophomore tight end recorded six catches for 133 yards and a score. The touchdown occurred at the end of the second quarter. Down 10-0 with 39 seconds left in the period, junior quarterback Gary Nova found Kroft in the back of the end zone for a 15-yard score. It was Kroft’s second-career touchdown. “We kind of had a double move off the MIKE [linebacker], so I ran my route at the MIKE and got him to basically break down,” Kroft said. “Once
I saw him break down, I kind of swam over him. Gar y put the ball high and I got over him and made the catch.” Kroft now has 10 receptions for 179 yards in three games since he became the Knights’ starter. Flood said Kroft needed to work on his blocking and has shown improvement in the area this season. “Tyler has got great hands, and Tyler has built himself into a tight end that can play in the run game and that was the only thing he needed to do to get the oppor tunity to catch these types of passes,” Flood said.
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Nadir Barnwell made his first-career star t Saturday in place of redshir t freshman Ian Thomas. Barnwell recorded eight tackles, including one for loss. “I think Nadir had some really good plays and some plays where he’s going to be anxious to get back on the playing field and work on,” Flood said. “For a guy who played a lot more [Saturday] than he did in any previous game, I think it was a good learning experience for him and for tunately for us as a team, he gets to have that learning experience combined in a win.” In the third quarter, Arkansas wide receiver Javontee Herndon beat Barnwell for a 17-yard touchdown, which gave the Razorbacks a 17-7 lead. Barnwell said his teammates helped him not get discouraged after the mistake. “They told me to just forget it and that was great defense,” Barnwell said. “The whole defense came up to me and supported me and made sure my head didn’t get down because they knew we had more game to play.”
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Grant might win the next. He solidified his candidacy with a 47-yard punt return with 7:01 left in the fourth. It put Rutgers in Arkansas territory. “It’s very addicting, because you just get high on yourself and you hope to just score every time you touch the ball,” Grant said of trying to score each time. The play featured a key block from redshirt sophomore wideout Ruhann Peele, who leveled the man in front of Grant. Grant’s protection must adjust quickly, since Rutgers almost always enforces punt block attempts. That means everyone must run back as soon as the
punter boots it so Grant’s protection is not compromised. Rutgers’ wideouts especially proved their versatility in special teams against Arkansas. Pratt kept a Javontee Herndon return to only two yards after tackling him by the leg when Herndon had open space otherwise. “I’m not doing the tackling drills with the defense in practice, but you just work hard and good things will happen,” Pratt said. “I played defense in high school, so I know how to tackle. It’s basic football. It’s just beating my man off the ball and going to the returner and just trying to make that play.” Pratt and Grant now stand next to each other on kickoff returns. On Grant’s touchdown against the Bulldogs, senior Jeremy Deering stood alongside him. Fresno State kicked to Grant, and Deering’s block allowed Grant to speedily score. These have all been lessons for Grant on how key Rutgers players
take pride in special teams, and even some freshmen solely or mostly play it before playing their natural positions. Sophomore wide receiver Leonte Carroo clinched Rutgers’ victory with two touchdowns. A year ago, he played special teams as a flyer and a blocker. Grant won back Rutgers’ chances against Arkansas, but Carroo’s catches might be a glimpse into his career path. “[Carroo] spent last year on special teams and now everybody sees what he’s doing at receiver, as well, as he continues to help us on special teams,” Flood said. “I think Janarion is going to be the same way. We are fortunate that he’s a selfless player in the fact that he’s willing to do that for us.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @JoshBakan. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @ TargumSports.
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September 23, 2013
Arkansas defensive tackle Darius Philon dives to sack junior quarterback Gary Nova from his blindside. Arkansas sacked Nova five times after the quarterback returned from a concussion suffered Sept. 14 against Eastern Michigan, and Nova often operated out of the shotgun. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
comeback Nova leads 98-yard drive, beginning with pass to Coleman for his only reception against Arkansas continued from front and 12 on a 33-yard pass to cap a 98-yard drive with 9:55 remaining. The drive started at Rutgers’ 2-yard line with junior quarterback Gary Nova connecting with senior wideout Brandon Coleman for Coleman’s only reception. Coleman reached over an Arkansas defender, who committed pass interference on the play. Nova worked in the shotgun — a common formation after he returned from a concussion — and passed to sophomore tight end Tyler Kroft for 42 yards to Arkansas’ 31-yard line.
Rutgers sacrificed protection on the drive to give Nova more receiving options. Then Nova was sacked for the fifth time that game, junior running back Savon Huggins ran for one yard and a pass to Coleman, while Nova was pressured, was wide. Arkansas’ 33 was too far to kick and too close to punt. So with Rutgers trailing late, head coach Kyle Flood told offensive coordinator Ron Prince to go for it. Rutgers operated a four-wideout set that left Carroo in sin-
gle coverage in the endzone on the right. Any time Nova and Carroo connect, it brings up reminders of playing with each other at Don Bosco (N.J.) Prep. “I know it’s very romantic to think of it like that, but I think Gary throws the same ball if Brandon Coleman happened to be in the game at that point or [senior wideout] Quron Pratt,” Flood said. The catch convinced the crowd an SEC team would not walk over a future member of the Big Ten, the league where Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema led Wisconsin from 2006-2012. The packed stadium, charred with “Blackout” shirts, needed persuasion after Arkansas running back Jonathan Williams completed a 21-yard touchdown pass with 8:38 left in the third. That built the Razorbacks’ lead to 24-7.
At that point, only Arkansas had offensive answers, even with backup quarterback AJ Derby’s accuracy struggles. Rutgers woke up the crowd when senior cornerback Lew Toler tackled wideout Julian Horton hard enough to force the ball out. Sophomore linebacker Quentin Gause hooked around about 25 yards from the endzone and accelerated down the sideline to score. The play was reviewed and ruled an incomplete pass. The cheers turned to comparably loud boos for the SEC ref crew. Nova threw more accurately than Derby, but he struggled to get throws off with Arkansas’ pressure. He was sacked three times in the first half and pressured more often. He scrambled less often than he did pre-injury and simply released the ball quicker. Nova
worked all week to recover from his concussion suffered Sept. 14 against Eastern Michigan, and Arkansas’ pressure was not going to ruin that. When Carroo was open twice in the endzone, his passes were accurate and Carroo made no mistakes. Nova’s recovery was worth it for Rutgers. “Coach and I had a plan and I was just doing whatever I could do and [not doing what I] couldn’t do,” Nova said. “And I knew that plan was going to have me ready to play in the game.” Before Rutgers and Nova enter the Big Ten, each can put sweeping an SEC opponent in a homehome series on their résumés. For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @JoshBakan. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @ TargumSports.
September 23, 2013
Page 17 WOMEN’S SOCCER RUTGERS 2, VILLANOVA 1
Junior’s game-winning goal erases early deficit By Jim Mooney Staff Writer
The Rutgers women’s soccer team needed to rally late to secure a 2-1 victory Friday night against Villanova. Senior defender Tricia DiPaolo found junior forward Stefanie Scholz at the top of the box for the game-winning goal with 31 seconds left in regulation.
DiPaolo sent the ball in from 30 yards, which found freshman midfielder Madison Tiernan. Tierman buried the ball into the back of the net to tie the game in the 72nd minute. Down 1-0 at halftime of what already had been physical, hardfought game, the Scarlet Knights (7-1-1) increased the intensity on both sides of the ball as they out-
shot the Wildcats (3-4-2), 16-1, in the second half. “We came in at halftime down a goal and we all looked each other in the face and said we’re not losing this game, we don’t lose on our home field,” DiPaolo said. Rutgers needed that offensive spark with time running out. “It was a great collective team ef for t,” Scholz said. “I
think we came out in the second half really strong and put Villanova under a lot of pressure.” But the game may leave the Knights in a predicament, as freshman defender Erin Smith went down during the game with an ankle injur y. There has been no of ficial update on Smith’s status for this weekend.
Junior forword Stephanie Scholz scored a game-winning goal with 31 seconds remaining Friday in a 2-1 victory against Villanova. That clinched Rutgers’ fourth consecutive win and a 6-0 home record. SHIRLEY YU / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR / FILE PHOTO / SEPTEMBER 2013
MEN’S GOLF RU TRAVELS TO HARTFORD INVITE
Previous success gives RU promise at invite By Sean Stewart Contributing Writer
The Rutgers men’s golf team travels to Hartford, Conn., today for the Hartford Invitational, where head coach Rob Shutte has high expectations for his team. “I think that all five guys can win it individually,” Shutte said. “We’re a program that is always trying to get better, but we’re also at a point where we have some talent and we try to win every tournament.” The Scarlet Knights placed seventh out of 16 teams last year in Hartford, as senior Doug Walters led the team with a 224 for a 15th-place finish. Walters hopes his success from last year can help his teammates be more successful, as he wants to lead by example to help younger players improve. “I hope to provide the new guys at the course with knowledge and game management,” Walters said. “If you have proper game management that could be the difference between first place, second place or being middle of the pack.” Another player who hopes to continue to lead his team is Jacob Stockl, who captured first place Sept. 14 at the Rutgers Invitational. The junior produced a four-un-
der-par scorecard, which helped his team to a third-place finish. Stockl led the tournament in par-five and -three scoring and looks to continue his fine run of form ahead of the invitational. “Any time you play well at any event you get a lot of confidence and hopefully it translates to next week because I’m feeling good about the game and feeling confident,” Stockl said. “If I play to my full potential I hopefully can come out on top.” The team’s preparation focused on creating a pressure-like atmosphere and simulating tournament scenarios the players might face. “I think our practices have been extremely intense … and our scoring average is down as a result,” Shutte said. The team is also confident it can perform well on any golf course and highlighted taking high-percentage and aggressive shots. “It’s a course that I think we can shoot very good scores on as a team and individually,” Stockl said. “We’re expecting very good things for this week.” The Knights will also start sophomore Jonathan Chang, freshman Michael Howe and senior co-captain Jonathan Renza, with Howe and Renza appearing on the course for the first time.
Senior for ward Jonelle Filigno was also injured that game but returned late in the contest. Defensively, the Knights shut down Villanova’s offense in the second half after allowing a goal just before halftime. Head coach Glenn Crooks gave credit to his back line for the secondhalf turnaround. “Halftime was not pretty,” Crooks said. “The defending on the goal was poor, especially at that juncture in the game where we controlled so much of the play. Now the next step of that is what we said at halftime — ‘What is the character of the team? How are we going to approach this?’” Rutgers improved to 6-0 at home and, more impor tantly, finished its non-conference schedule on a four-match winning streak. That will begin Friday, when Rutgers travels to Ohio to face Cincinnati in its American Athletic Conference opener. Until then, the Knights can use these types of wins for learning experience as tournament season gets closer. “These are the kind of games that will come back and help us get into the NCAA’s,” Tiernan said. “I thought we pulled together as a team at halftime and showed that we had more hear t.” For updates on the women’s soccer team follow @TargumSpor ts on Twitter.
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September 23, 2013 MEN’S SOCCER SMU 1, RUTGERS 0
Senior forward Kene Eze, the Knights’ second-leading scorer this season, left Friday night’s game at Yurcak Field against SMU with 37:18 remaining in the first half. Eze suffered an undisclosed leg injury when sprinting after a ball in Mustang territory. Rutgers failed to score after his departure. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Injury leads to RU’s first scoreless game of year By Greg Johnson Correspondent
As senior forward Kene Eze limped off Yurcak Field on Busch campus with 37:18 left in the first half Friday night, a bit of coincidence hit the Rutgers men’s soccer team. Head coach Dan Donigan spoke Tuesday of the importance of exploiting depth in practice to prepare for potential injuries as the season wears on. It was put to the test in the Scarlet Knights’ AAC opener, as an undisclosed leg injury sidelined Eze for the remainder of the game. But despite outshooting Southern Methodist University, 13-9, and attempting four more corner kicks, Rutgers went scoreless for the first time this season in a 1-0 loss without its second-leading scorer. The Knights (3-3-1) refused to pity themselves. “Kene’s obviously one of our big players, so any time you see anything happen to him, you get a little bit worried,” said freshman midfielder Erik Sa. “Regardless, it doesn’t really matter. We’re supposed to have the guys — and we do have the guys — to adjust to those things. We can’t dwell on that, because that’s not good enough. It doesn’t say you lost Kene in the result column.” Without Eze’s breakaway speed, Rutgers lacked consistency pressing forward into SMU’s (2-5) penalty box. The Knights got off just one shot on goal in the first half. Frustrations mounted when sophomore defender Drew Morgan drew a yellow card coming in late on a tackle in the 29th minute. It played into SMU’s hands. The Mustangs took only three shots in the period, yet they curi-
Freshman midfielder Erik Sa led Rutgers with two shots on goal in its 1-0 loss to SMU. His best chance at his first goal came in the 55th minute but landed wide right. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ously appeared comfortable in engaging in what became a 63-minute stalemate. “They’re on the road, they were content to kind of knock the ball around and kill a little bit of the clock,” Donigan said. “But at the same time, we’re at home. We’ve got to press the game a little bit. I thought we were a better team, to be honest.” It started to show in the second half. The Knights tactically adjusted without Eze and created eight more shots. Three were on
goal, yet none reached the back of the net. Rutgers’ best opportunity came in the 55th minute when sophomore forward J.P. Correa found Sa open across the field in front of SMU’s left post. With goalkeeper Jamie Ibarra the only remaining line of defense, the rookie had his first collegiate goal in sight. But Sa narrowly missed right of the goal post, and all he could do was put his hands on his head.
“I think [Friday] I got more involved with the play and had some opportunities obviously to score,” Sa said. “I’m not really worried about [my first goal] right now. I’m worried about how the team’s going to do … but obviously if I did have one or two it would’ve helped the team win. So obviously I’m going to be thinking about that.” The Mustangs made the Knights pay nine minutes later. Midfielder Andrew Morales floated a pass near Rutgers’ penalty
box that forward Alfred Koroma snuck past freshman goalkeeper David Greczek into the left side of the net, giving SMU all it would need for a win. “[Koroma] was very opportunistic. He’s a dangerous player, and we knew that,” Donigan said. “He made a good run, they slid a ball through, and we didn’t defend it well enough. Those mistakes happen over the course of a game. Sometimes they finish, sometimes they don’t. They made mistakes, too, but we didn’t capitalize.” Sophomore midfielder Mael Corboz willingly pushed for the equalizer, but missed two shots inside the penalty box over the next six minutes. For Rutgers, an inability to finish in SMU territory littered the second half. “We had chances. We could’ve had opportunities,” Donigan said. “We didn’t execute in the final third of the field.” Donigan also called the Mustangs the best previously 1-5 team he had ever seen. He acknowledged their scrappy play on defense and grinding strength of schedule. Still, the Knights’ greatest frustration lied in selfinflicted damage. “We just couldn’t finish in the box. We had three, four good chances — just couldn’t put them away,” Correa said. “I don’t give them much credit. We should’ve won the game. We’re better than them.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s soccer team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @GregJohnsonRU. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
September 23, 2013
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incinnati freshman offensive lineman Ben Flick died Saturday night following a car accident, according to ESPN.com. Freshman wide receivers Mark Barr and Javon Harrison were also injured in the one-vehicle accident following Cincinnati’s 14-0 win against Miami (Ohio). Barr and Harrison were airlifted to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Harrison was listed in stable condition, while both Barr and the driver, whose identity has not been released, were listed as critical. “I can’t put into words how tragic this is,” head coach Tommy Tuber ville said in a statement. “As a father and a coach, it’s something you hope you never have to go through.” All three players were redshir ting this season and did not travel for Saturday’s game. Rutgers will host Cincinnati on Nov. 16.
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No. 1 in this week’s Associated Press college football poll. The top 14 also remained the same. Oregon, Clemson, Ohio State and Stanford rounded out the top five. Oregon did not play this weekend but stayed at No. 2, receiving four firstplace votes. Ohio State was one of four teams in the top 25 to score at least 70 points last weekend. Fresno State was the only newcomer to this week’s poll, placing 25th with Arizona State bowing out after a 42-28 loss to No. 5 Stanford. Rutgers lost to Fresno State, 52-51, Aug. 29 in double over time. Michigan dropped three spots to No. 18 after a second straight win by less than five points, topping Connecticut, 24-21. Rutgers received one vote in the poll.
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Phillies announced Sunday morning Ryne Sandberg will be the club’s manager for the 2014 season, according to ESPN.com. Sandberg signed a three-year deal that runs through 2016 with a club option in 2017. Sandberg took over for former manager Charlie Manuel, who was fired Aug. 16. Since taking over, he has led the Phillies to an 18-16 record.
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Senior goalie Sarah Stuby made 10 saves in Rutgers’ home 2-0 loss yesterday to No. 3 UConn. It was just shy of her career best of 11 saves, keeping the game within reach, despite the Huskies’ 27-6 shot advantage. THE DAILY TARGUM / SEPTEMBER 2012 / FILE PHOTO
Penalties plague Knights in home loss By Justin Lesko Staff Writer
The last time the Rutgers field hockey team defeated Connecticut, the current roster was still in elementary school. The No. 3 Huskies (7-0, 1-0) once again had the Scarlet Knights’ number thanks to a 2-0 victor y. The Knights (3-4, 0-1) played well defensively, but penalties dragged them down. Huskies forward Chloe Hunnable scored her seventh goal of the year on a penalty corner 13 minutes into the second half after freshman midfielder Ashpal Bhogal earned a yellow card. Sophomore Roisin Upton recorded the assist. Forward Anne Jeute scored UConn’s first goal 14 minutes into the game, 30 seconds after freshman back Sophia Walia received a green card. Jeute looked to add another one with 5:35 remaining in the game, but her screaming shot just missed the upper left corner of the cage. “I think sometimes it doesn’t go our way and it’s frustrating at times,” said head coach Meredith Long. “We got a couple cards and we were a player down for 10 minutes, but we did well.” Senior forward Lisa Patrone also received a green card. “Our team philosophy on that is just control the control-ables, and we can’t control what the ref calls,” Patrone said. Senior goalkeeper Sarah Stuby received the loss. The Huskies outshot the Knights 27-6 and Stuby made 10 saves, just one less than her career high of 11. The defense also blocked seven shots. Stuby had two big saves in the 16th minute to keep the game within reach.
Freshman back Sophia Walia receieved a green card during the Rutgers’ 2-0 loss Saturday against Connecticut. Senior forward Lisa Patrone also got one. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Sophomore forward Katie Champion had an impressive run with 9:39 left in the game and was able to earn a penalty corner. But Rutgers was not able to capitalize. “I think we had some adjustments going into the second half that we didn’t quite figure out,” Long said. “For us we need to just be disciplined.” Rutgers’ other opportunity came with 13:35 left after junior midfielder Sophie Wright dove to knock a pass away between UConn’s defenders. Patrone brought bring the ball into the circle but could not get a clean shot off. “We need to believe we can win from the get-go. We don’t need to
think about their rank,” Wright said. “We just need to go out and know we can win.” Entering this game, Connecticut had scored four goals in each of their previous four games. Their two goals tied a season low. “We had a really good chance when the score was 1-0 that we missed, literally just inches away,” Long said. “That would have made a big difference. I think we played really solid team defense, and for the most part, really stuck with our game plan and that was positive.” The Huskies entered atop the Big East standings. They were
the Big East champions last year and made it to the NCAA Final Four. “I think a 2-0 loss isn’t something to be ashamed of, but there’s always room for us to improve,” Patrone said. Rutgers last beat them Oct. 13, 2001 in Piscataway. UConn over whelmingly leads the series, 2-27-1. Rutgers next travels to Philadelphia on Friday at 3 p.m. to play Temple. For updates on the Rutgers field hockey team, follow @TargumSpor ts on Twitter.
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KNIGHT NOTEBOOK JAMES WILL MISS GAMES AGAINST SMU, LOUISVILLE
Sophomore running back P.J. James gets checked out by head football coach Kyle Flood and medical staff after injuring his leg during Rutgers’ 28-24 victory against Arkansas. Flood said yesterday that James will miss at least the Knights’ next two games, and is uncertain when James will return. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
James sidelined with injury to lower leg By Bradly Derechailo Associate Sports Editor
Junior running back P.J. James, who at one point led the country in rushing yards, will miss at least two games with what Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood described as a lower leg injury. James sustained the injur y in the Scarlet Knights’ 28-24 victor y Saturday against Arkansas.
Flood said he would be out for the Knights’ road matchups with Southern Methodist on Oct. 5 and Oct. 10 against No. 7 Louisville. Rutgers (3-1) has a bye this week before its game with the Mustangs. Though hesitant to say exactly when James will come back, Flood was optimistic he will return at some point this season, but will take a wait-and-see approach. “Anything beyond [those two games], I think there’s no definite there either,” Flood
said, “But that’s where I think we have to reevaluate it.” James went down twice against the Razorbacks (3-1), the first of which occurred in the third quarter after a nine-yard run. James lay on the High Point Solutions Stadium turf on Busch campus for a couple minutes, but walked off the field under his own power. James returned in the fourth quarter, but went down again with a non-contact injury and did not return to the game.
During his teleconference yesterday, Flood would not elaborate on what type of injury James sustained, but believed it was not an issue to put the Glassboro, N.J. native back into the game after he was first removed. “Paul went out of the game and the medical staf f has a protocol for what they do on the sideline for any type of injur y before they’ll put a player back in the game,” Flood said. “Then they tell me if they’re
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FOOTBALL FRESHMAN SCORES ON 58-YARD PUNT RETURN
Grant leads wide receivers’ special teams success By Josh Bakan Sports Editor
Of all people, senior linebacker Jamal Merrell may have given freshman Janarion Grant his most important piece of advice for returning kickoffs and punts. “I got on the sidelines [Aug. 29 against Fresno State] and asked Jamal Merrell before I went on,” Grant said. “He just told me to go for
it. I said, ‘OK, I got you.’ So I went back there and I was just hoping they would kick to me. I was just ready to get the ball and take it for a touchdown and show them what I can do.” Grant returned his first collegiate kickoff for a 100-yard touchdown against the Bulldogs partly because of Merrell. He might have been MVP in the Rutgers football team’s 28-24 victory Saturday against Arkansas while Merrell was in street clothes because of a kidney issue.
The Pasco (Fla.) High School product returned a punt for 58 yards to put the Scarlet Knights’ deficit at only 24-14 with 2:14 left in the third. Grant had space on his right, and his teammates blocked off his left. He ran toward the open space on the right, beat defenders and blazed toward the middle again to score. “That’s the thing about special teams,” said head coach Kyle Flood. “It spans six to
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NFL Scores
New York Giants 0 38 Carolina
San Diego Tennessee
17 20
Buffalo New York Jets
20 27
Cleveland Minnesota
31 27
Tampa Bay New England
3 23
Green Bay Cincinnati
30 34
NICK BORGESE,
sophomore kicker, replaced classmate Kyle Federico in the Rutgers football team’s 28-24 victory Saturday after Federico’s 32-yard attempt was partially blocked. Borgese went 4-for-4 in his extra point attempts.
eight seconds and it covers a wide range of field zones. And there were some tremendous efforts that I think we’re going to see on film — and not just Janarion, although his was tremendous, as well.” Senior wideout Quron Pratt won the last AAC Special Teams Player of the Week award for a 99-yard kickoff return on Sept. 14 against Eastern Michigan. see
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Score by quarter
1ST QUARTER
2ND QUARTER
3RD QUARTER
4TH QUARTER
Arkansas
10
Arkansas
0
Arkansas
14
Arkansas
0
RUTGERS
0
RUTGERS
7
RUTGERS
7
RUTGERS
14