THE DAILY TARGUM
Volume 141, Number 34
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The Rutgers football team could not stop the run and failed to take advantage of Pittsburgh mistakes, falling to 0-2 in the Big East with a 24-17 loss to the Panthers Friday night at Rutgers Stadium.
Anti-Semitic group to protest at U. Hillel BY JOHN S. CLYDE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Picketers from the infamously antiSemitic, anti-Catholic and anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church are scheduled to protest Oct. 28 at 8:45 a.m. outside Rutgers Hillel. “[The University is] aware that a small protest has been planned. We have been in contact with both the protesters who informed us of their plans and with Hillel,” said Director of Media Relations E.J. Miranda, who declined to give further comment. Member and Attor ney for the Westboro Baptist Church Shirley Phelps-Roper expects about 10 protesters from the group, which tries to spread its message through protests around the countr y, to protest outside Hillel.
“The Westboro Baptist Church is an extremist organization that espouses the most despicable forms of antiSemitic hate speech,” said Student Board President Hilary Neher on behalf of Rutgers Hillel. “Rutgers Hillel abhors their message, which is based entirely on condemning and attacking not only Jews, but homosexuals, Catholics, and other Christian denominations. ” Rutgers Hillel will announce details of a counter protest later in the week and invites the University community to join together against the Westboro Baptist Church, according to the statement. “Hatred like this has no place on our campus,” Neher said in the statement. The Westboro Baptist Church engages in more than 41,000 protests, some of which have taken place near
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Westboro Baptist Church member Shirley Phelps-Roper demostrates in Memphis, Tenn. The group has participated in more than 41,000 protests and is scheduled to protest Oct. 28 at the University.
Second face-off sparks education, gay marriage disputes BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
At the second New Jersey gubernatorial debate, the three candidates may have all agreed that Bruce Springsteen is their favorite
N.J. rocker and that the New York Giants — which they agreed should be from the state — are better than the Philadelphia Eagles. But the three expressed differences on the revitalization of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, gay
marriage and higher education at the debate Friday at William Patterson University in Wayne, N.J. Democratic candidate Gov. Jon S. Corzine relayed his past work to make higher education more affordable in the state.
“We have increased tuition aid grants to our students by about $100 million over the last three and a half years,” Corzine said. This helped students pay for the increasing tuition, he said.
UNIVERSITY Along with researchers from other universities, a professor uncovers a compound in olive oil that has a critical effect on the processes of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Look inside to find out where the only sports bar in New Brunswick is located — and what the employees are wearing.
The NJ STARS program, which pays for high-achieving students in the community to transfer to a public state college of their choice after two years, has expanded from
Demolition trucks claw down pieces of Neubies restaurant last week to make room for the Gateway project. By Nov. 15, the city is scheduled to begin construction.
CITY TEARS DOWN NEUBIES IN GATEWAY PROJECT PREPARATION The demolition of the former Neubies restaurant on Somerset Street as construction of the Gateway project is one step closer to being underway. The project, which will be situated on Wall Street, Easton Avenue and Somerset Street, will consist of a grocer y store, general offices, miscellaneous retail, 192 residential units, a University bookstore and a multilevel parking garage. President of the New Brunswick Development Corporation Chris Paladino said on Nov. 15, DEVCO will have the site under control. “We hope that [NJ Books owner Ed] Mueller will be able to move within the next two weeks to the NJ Books store and we’ll begin complete demolition,” Paladino said. “We actually hope to be underway in fullblown construction on Nov. 15.”
He said DEVCO received permission from the city to close Wall Street and they will be closing the site by putting up barriers and fences. Easton Avenue and Somerset Street will be closed on the side of the old NJ Books store, Neubies and Little Teddy’s, he said. Pedestrians will have to walk on the opposite side of the street where Old Queen’s campus is. “It’ll be a little inconvenient for a couple of years, people having to walk on the opposite side of the street and closing some lanes of traffic, but I think it will be an extraordinary project when it’s completed,” Paladino said. He said the street will be closed until the summer of 2012 and the new University bookstore will be ready to open for the fall 2012 semester. — Heather Brookhart
As winter weather approaches, students affiliated with Energy Ser vice Corps premiered their first weatherization event on Friday afternoon in several students’ offcampus residences. The initiative, a joint effort from AmeriCorps and New Jersey Public Interest Research Groups Student Chapters, teaches residents how to be more energy efficient through simple cost-saving measures. The tools of the trade are inexpensive, but can save residents up to 30 percent on their heating and electric bills, Energy Service Corps intern Nicole McCann said. “The energy problem is over whelmingly complicated,” College Avenue Campus Dean Matt Matsuda said. “Like world hunger, it requires a very local effort with global help.” Matsuda was impressed with the turnout of the event, noting that half of the people in the students’ living room were volunteers. He praised the leadership displayed by Energy Service Corps.
Cook Campus Dean Richard Ludescher said Americans have had the luxury on cheap energy for hundreds of years, which is an era that has come to a close. “Americans now have two good reasons to cut back: the economy and the environment,” Ludescher said. NJPIRG program director Liz Glynn wrote the grant that earned the three-year contract with AmeriCorps. The funding comes largely from AmeriCorp’s $201 million expansion under President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan. Before any changes are made, an energy audit is performed to determine what will be needed for the job, Glynn said. Windows are assessed, ceiling light bulbs are counted, appliances are traced to outlets and vents are inspected for cleanliness. While these may seem like minutia, they are the most common conduits for wasted energy, she said. Members of the Energy Service Corps then split into groups so three houses could
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