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Rutgers senior quarterback Dom Natale is ready and willing to help lead the team against Maryland this weekend if freshman starter Tom Savage has not returned from injury.

Class of 2011 to debut first SAS convocation BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

With the recent merger of the University’s undergraduate schools into the School of Arts and Sciences, the Class of 2011 will be the first to have one official graduation ceremony for the new, consolidated program. While the University will hold its traditional University-wide commencement ceremony, individual

schools, such as the new School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Engineering and several others, will also still hold separate convocations for their students. Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Philip J. Furmanski said a University-wide ceremony keeps students united to the institution as a whole. “This will be a grand event and it will combine both that sense of

community and place as well as something that connects people with the larger enterprise of the University,” he said. Furmanski said there should not be confusion about the loss of individual schools’ ceremonies. “When we talk about an allUniversity, an all-New Brunswick convocation — a ceremony for the entire University — we’re not at all eliminating or precluding each of

the individual schools from holding their school-specific graduation ceremony or commencement ceremony,” he said. The University-wide ceremony is the official conference of degrees — the separate convocations are only ceremonial, Vice President of Student Affairs Barry Qualls said. “There’s only one official conference at Rutgers, and that’s true even now,” he said.

Furmanski said the smaller ceremonies allow students to feel a sense of belonging to their academic unit. “We also want to break it up into manageable components so that students’ names can be called, so that their parents can take pictures, all the kinds of things that are part of that great celebration,” he said. Rutgers College senior Yan

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Dining Services clear up student misconceptions BY CAGRI OZUTURK ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

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While students are frustrated with meals left over each year because of large, required plans, Dining Services said students pay for what they eat on average, a cost-effective approach.

INDEX UNIVERSITY On-campus diners will find a Southwest surprise at the Busch Campus Center this fall.

OPINIONS The country is too quick to hand out the race card when dealing with those who disagree with President Obama.

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Health care costs, instability plague young Americans BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT

With the health care reform debate streaming throughout the country, students and young adults may be wondering how health care reform will affect them. United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released a report, “Young Americans and Health Insurance Reform: Giving Young Americans the Security and Stability They Need.” The report, in conjunction with President Barack Obama’s health care reform plan, highlights vulnerabilities young adults face in health care whether they are insured or not, and how health care reform can help. “College students wonder how they will stay insured when they graduate,” Health and Human Ser vices Spokesman Nicholas Papas said. “Health insurance will bring stability and security and peace of mind to students who have insurance today.” According to the report, young adults are the most uninsured people than any other demographic. Although 17 percent of adults aged 30 to 64 are uninsured, 30 percent of young adults — including college students — remain uninsured. Sebelius said most students are on their parents’ health care plans, but once they reach a certain age, they are no longer qualified to remain on those plans — a rule most insurance companies follow. “More and more young adults wake up the day after their 19th birthday or on graduation day and find themselves uninsured,” Sebelius said. “I’ve seen this problem firsthand … health insurance reform will help ensure young Americans have access to the affordable health care they need and deserve.”

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The policies of $60 million University Dining Services have been the cause of criticism of many students, but Executive Director Charles Sams Jr. said some of those concerns are based on misconceptions. While some students are concerned with not using all the meals in their plans, Sams said students do not pay for all the meals that appear as face value of their plan. He said they pay for the average number of meals used by all students within the plan they hold, and no student pays for all the available meals. “Students actually pay for what they eat on average. Any student with a 285 [plan] that eats more than 170 meals is being subsidized by the

student who ate fewer,” Sams said. “Across the averages within each plan, this is the most costeffective approach.” The average student with a 285-meal plan eats roughly 170 meals, missing more than 100 a semester, which is close to the price charged, he said. Each plan is pre-discounted based upon the average of meals left unused. An example of this would be the 285-meal plan, which is 19 swipes per week for 15 weeks; this is designed to include 105 dinners, 105 lunches and 75 breakfasts, Sams said. At today’s retail costs, which Dining Services estimated to be $16.25 for dinner, $11 for lunch and $7 for breakfast, this would cost $3,442.50 — but Dining Services only charged $2,075 this fall.

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FURMANSKI TO INTRODUCE NEW THEME FOR U. Highlighting key global issues and topics for the Univerisity community, Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Philip J. Furmanski will announce the two-year ecology initiative and theme for the University tonight at 4:30 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus. Organized by Dean Joanna Regulska, chair of the International Advisory Committee for the School of Arts and Sciences and Rutgers-New Brunswick, the “Ecologies in the Balance? An Interdisciplinary Conversation,” series will include an introductory panel discussion with participants from several of the different schools at the University. “It is important [for students] to interact with policy makers and scholars in order to see the connection between different issues,” Regulska said. “Our goal is to open up the minds of students and show them the interrelationship between these physical, social, political and economic processes, so that they may see where the opportunities are.” The challenge here is to soften up the boundaries of the subject matter, she said. “We function in a very complex environment and our studies must reflect that complexity,” Regulska said.

The ecology-based initiative is focused on exploring the complexity of these global processes, as well as giving them local context, she said. Events will focus not only on social forces, but also on economic and political interactions, as well as changes in material culture, Regulska said. A goal of the initiative is to incorporate the unique experiences each speaker, filmmaker, scholar, policy maker or student brings to the conversation, thereby revealing the challenges we face, as well as possibilities for intervention. Throughout the last three years, the University has focused its attention around a certain theme, drawing from the combined knowledge of students, scholars and policy makers, in order to explore and generate interest in issues that have global as well as local implications. The International Advisor y Committee for the School of Arts and Sciences, as well as the International Advisory Committee for Rutgers-New Brunswick chose to continue for the next two years with the theme of ecology. More information on the “Ecologies in the Balance?” series, as well as a complete listing of events, can be found at ecologies.rutgers.edu. — Matthew Reed

Republican Christie leads poll by 7 percent against governor BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

With only six weeks left until the Nov. 3 gubernatorial election, Republican candidate Chris Christie has the lead with New Jersey voters.

Christie, challenging Democrat Gov. Jon S. Corzine, holds a seven-point lead over the incumbent, according to a poll conducted Monday by Rasmussen Reports — one of the nation’s top polling services.

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Moe’s Southwest to grill up new favorites BY ABIRA SENGUPTA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The “Homewrecker,” the “Funk Meister” and the “Instant Friend” will be among the items on the menu at Moe’s Southwest Grill when it opens at the Busch Campus Center in a few months. Co-owner Noraiz Khan showcased a variety of food for students to sample and preview on Monday, before the opening of the grill in early November. Khan said he and Co-owner Jamil Phanezai both graduated from the University in 2004 with degrees in economics and have been friends since their college days. After graduating, they went their separate ways but always knew they wanted to start their own business together. “We decided that we wanted to go down the fresh Mex route. We considered all kinds of Mexican places such as Baja Fresh and Qdoba,” he said. “We finally decided on Moe’s Southwest Grill.” Khan said after carefully contemplating exactly what they wanted to do, they decided that the food business was the best way to go because of the suc-

cess that Phanezai saw after opening a Popeye’s Chicken and Biscuits restaurant. “Not only did Moe’s have excellent food quality but they also had a great variety of options,” Khan said. “I knew it would be a success.” He said when trying to decide about where to open the restaurant, the University immediately came to mind. “We decided that Busch campus would be the ideal location for Moe’s because of the campus’ diversity,” Khan explained. “There are so many different types of people on this campus; we couldn’t possibly think of a better place.” The owners are now in the process of opening several locations in the Central Jersey area, including Nor th Br unswick, Manalapan, Holmdel and East Brunswick. One of the features of the southwestern grill franchise is their quirky taco, burrito and quesadilla names. Some of the offerings on Moe’s menu include the “Homewrecker,” comprised of a choice of grilled meat, beans, rice, shredded cheese, pico de gallo, lettuce, sour cream and guacamole; the “Joey Bag of Donuts,”

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The new dining venue in the Busch Campus Center held a sample opening Monday to excite students for its official opening later this semester. University alumni founded the Tex-Mex themed restaurant.

a burrito that comes with a choice of grilled meat, beans, rice, shredded cheese and pico de gallo; and the “Funk Meister,” a taco with meat, beans, shredded cheese, pico de gallo and lettuce. Moe’s also has a variety of vegetarian options. The “Instant Friend” is a quesadilla that has sautéed vegetables, beans, shred-

ded cheese, pico de gallo and sour cream. Tofu can also be substituted for meat in any of the entrees. School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Jason Chen said he ate at Moe’s in his hometown and the “Homewrecker” is his favorite. “I am really excited that Moe’s is opening on campus,”

he said. “Now I can enjoy the food both at school and at home.” School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Awais Hussain said he really enjoyed the food the grill had to sample. “I am definitely going to eat it when it opens on campus,” Hussain said.

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HEALTH: Premium costs depend on gender in 33 states continued from front The report states young adults who are on their parents’ health insurance plans will be able to remain on those plans until they are 26 years old. Individuals without coverage, including college students, will be able to take part in a new insurance exchange where they will be able to shop for insurance plans at competitive prices, Papas said. The report states young adults who work in small businesses are less likely to be provided with health insurance plans because it is so costly for the businesses. Papas said the plan will tackle such issues. “For young adults working in small businesses, we will also provide tax credits to those businesses so that they can provide

POLL: Christie may be leading because of economy continued from front While Christie leads Corzine 48 percent to 41 percent, Independent Chris Daggett holds 6 percent of the vote and the remaining 5 percent are undecided, according to the poll. Associate Director of the University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics John Weingart said the state of the economy could be a reason for Christie’s lead. “I think there is a lot of concern about the state of the economy, which is making voters perhaps less enthusiastic about incumbents,” he said. According to the poll, 38 percent of voters approve of Corzine’s role as governor. Weingart said the favorable attention Christie received with his former work as a U.S. attorney may also be reflected in the results. But while Christie leads now and has been leading since last

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health benefits to their employees,” he said. School of Arts and Sciences senior Garima Singh thinks health care reform that provides health insurance for all employees is important, especially because many college students look for jobs based on health benefits rather than jobs that fit their interests. “Some of my friends want to get a full-time job because [they want to have health insurance],” Singh said. “They go to school and get full-time jobs at the same time because of that reason.” Nearly half of young adults work part-time, and those jobs, along with small businesses, are less likely to offer health insurance, according to the report. Among young adults who work for small businesses or who have part-time jobs that offer health insurance, one in four of them lose that insurance within two years. Young adults are also more likely to cancel their health

plans due to high costs or fail to fill their prescriptions. This results in many unattended medical conditions, despite common misconceptions that young adults are generally healthier than adults and are not in dire need of heath care, according to the report. In addition, one in six young adults suffer from a common chronic illness such as asthma, high blood pressure and cancer, and one-quar ter of young adults are obese. Insurance issues not only affect the uninsured, but the insured as well, Papas said. “Even insured Americans have less security and stability than ever before,” he said. “They’re paying more but getting less, and they are worried about losing their coverage when they need it most.” The report also reveals that insurance costs vary depending on gender. According to the report, 33 states are permitted to change premiums based on age, gender and health status without

any restrictions. Young women are often charged higher premiums than men during their reproductive years. School of Arts and Sciences junior Samantha Luketina said she agrees with the young adult health care reform plan and Obama’s overall plan. Each time she has a doctor’s appointment, she pays a $50 co-pay with her insurance plan, and recently had to spend more than $200 on allergy medication. “The pharmacist told me it was going to be $426 and then he laughed because he forgot to put my insurance through,” Luketina said. “I was relieved until he told me it was $217 with my insurance. So in regards to Obama’s health care plan, I think it’s obvious to say that I’m all about it.” The health insurance reform will also put a cap on what insurance companies can force young adults to pay in out-of pocket expenses, co-pays and deductibles, and will require

premium rate reviews to ensure that young adults are not subject to arbitrar y increases in their premiums, according to the report. But Schools of Arts and Sciences junior Brendan Kaplan said although young adults face such barriers, Obama’s health care reform plan is not the right way to go about making changes. “I think [Obama] is right that insurance companies being greedy is the problem,” Kaplan said. “However, I think that creating a public option is just trying to fix insurance company-created issues by just creating another insurance company, and to me that’s counter-logical.” Papas said the nation cannot continue to ignore the millions of Americans who are uninsured. “The status quo in the county is unacceptable. Today, more than 30 million Americans cannot get coverage [and] 14,000 lose their insurance every day,” Papas said. “In America, nobody should go broke because they got sick.”

spring, there is no defined frontrunner yet, he said. “It’s too early to tell if that’s going to be what the outcome will be,” Weingart said. According to the polls, 48 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of the Republican, while 46 percent do not. Member of the College Republicans Ben Demarzo, a Rutgers College senior, said Christie is the choice for University students. Christie has offered a comprehensive plan for higher education and keeping companies in the state, he said. “Chris Christie’s biggest proposal is trying to keep jobs in New Jersey to make New Jersey more affordable so we can stay in New Jersey after we graduate,” Demarzo said. School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Syed Murtaza said he would vote for Corzine because he approves of his plans for roads and transportation and of his incumbency. “Because of his histor y, because of what he’s been doing,

it’s been successful,” he said. Weingart said the polls indicate that Daggett’s candidacy does not have enough support to win in November. Forty-five percent of voters did not know enough about Daggett to form an opinion, and 8 percent had a strong opinion of the candidate, according to the poll. His presence could affect the outcome by pulling votes from another candidate if the results are close, but it is not clear yet if he is pulling from either candidate. Weingart said Daggett used to be a Republican, which could pull votes from Christie, but his moderate ideology and past record with environmental advocacy could pull from Corzine. Eight percent of Democrats, 5 percent of unaffiliated voters and 2 percent of Republicans plan to vote for Daggett, according to the poll. While Independents across the nation do not fair well in elections, Daggett has set himself apart, Weingart said. His ability to raise enough money to receive

matching state funds for his candidacy and thus qualify for the debates is rare. “That’s a major asset that previous Independent candidates didn’t have, and it gives him a chance to shine in those debates and pick up more support and become more of a factor in the race,” Weingart said. He said since the race is so close, it could go either way. “Part of what makes politics interesting is you don’t know until the votes are counted,” Weingart said. One important aspect in this election is the expectation of low voter turnout, so ever y vote counts, he said. Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student Ashok Vegesna said he does not know whom he would vote for. “I don’t really follow politics that much,” he said. Rutgers College senior Karla Panchana said she was following the race, but now does not know which candidate she is leaning toward.

“It just seems like a lot of back and forth between them,” she said. Six percent of voters say this year’s gubernatorial campaign has been less negative than most, while 24 percent say it’s been more negative, according to the poll. Sixty-eight percent feel it is about the same as usual. The issues most important for University students do not differ from those of ever yone else, Weingart said. Welfare, health care, transportation, taxes, the budget deficit and other key issues affect all. “I think voters of all ages would be affected by and should be interested in how the candidates are going to be able to meet those challenges,” Weingart said. Voters should focus on the wide policy gulf between the two frontrunners, he said. “They have pretty profound differences in opinion in what government should do and how it should be run,” Weingart said. “I think it is a race well worth paying attention to if you live in New Jersey.”

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Students crowded the University dining halls yesterday for King Neptune Night, a themed buffet of lobster and fish. Students could bring two guests for $30 each.

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Cecila Vicuna, standing, is showing her first anthological review of “Water Writing” during business hours Monday through Friday at the Mabel Smith Douglass Library on Douglass campus. The artwork explores ecological issues through multiple media.

STRUGGLING THROUGH MATH LEADS TO SUCCESS People are either good at math or not, and the numbers, variables, equations and graphs either click or they do not. But recent research shows that frustration with the subject may not be such a bad thing when it comes to overcoming obstacles and learning. “We’ve found there is a healthy amount of frustration that’s productive,” said Roberta Schorr, associate professor in Rutgers-Newark’s Urban Education Department. “There is a satisfaction after having struggled with it.” Schorr coordinated a group study focused on learning habits in low-performance schools in Newark and discovered during a seven-year period that struggling with math problems actually leads to dramatically improved achievement and test scores, according to edutopia.org. “Her group has also found that — though conventional wisdom says certain abilities are innate — a lot of kids’ talents and abilities go unnoticed unless they are effectively challenged; the key is to do it in a nurturing environment,” according to the Web site. Math teachers and coaches from around the Newark area trained with Schorr and then translated her research in realclassroom application, according to the site. Allowing the students to attack the problems in whatever way they felt most comfortable proved successful. “If you are good at computations and you want to do it that way, you can,” said Debra Joseph-Charles, a math coach in the school district and former Newark teacher. “If you are a visual learner and you want to draw, you can. Or if you want to use manipulatives, you can. You hear this rhetoric about there being this and that type of learner, but no one really gives students the opportunity to learn in different ways in the math classroom.” Giving students the independence to approach and struggle through the problems in the means best suited for them presented important results. “Children who were failing are now quite successful,” Joseph-Charles said. “They’re solving problems in ways we didn’t see as a possibility but which were valid.” — Sara Gretina

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CONVOCATION: U. to read all names in ceremony continued from front Lipovekskiy said it is unfortunate the traditions associated with the former, separate graduations of Rutgers College, Livingston College and the other undergraduate schools will be lost. “But with the big School of Arts and Sciences, there’s really nothing else to do other than a Universitywide graduation,” he said. University College senior Magdalena Kolbuszewska said the consolidated School of Arts of Sciences graduation would be long, but no traditions are being lost. “Since everything’s merged, I don’t really feel like we’re losing [anything],” she said. “I guess we’re making new traditions.” Furmanski said this model is used at other universities in the countr y. “At most universities, there’s one big one for the entire university, and then there are a whole bunch of other, smaller ones that represent each … of the academic schools. And that’s what we’re moving toward,” he said. Qualls said the Universitywide commencement will now be held in the new Rutgers Stadium, followed shortly after by the convocation for the School of Arts and Sciences. In the past, the Universitywide commencement and the convocations of the schools now in the School of Arts and Sciences were held on the lawn of Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus, he said.

SERVICES: Dining requires 8,800 meal plans continued from front At latest glance, 966 students had the 285 plan; 1,668 had 255; 5,968 had 210; 1,956 had 150; and 1,606 had 105, he said. These numbers all fluctuate as the year progresses and students leave the University for one reason or another, Sams said. There are only 8,800 mandatory meal plan spaces out of the 36,000 students, and last week there were 16,350 students with plans. “That’s almost 8,000 students who picked one of the plans and were not required to,” Sams said. “That’s a positive sign at any school.” Another point of contention is the quality of the dining hall against the prices paid. The 285 plan costs $2,075 per semester, which is $7.20 per swipe; the 255 plan costs $2,015, which is $7.90 per swipe; the 210 costs $1,925, at $9.16 per swipe; the 150 costs $1,860, at $12.40 per swipe; the 105 costs $1,610, at $15.33 per swipe; the 75 costs $850, at $11 per swipe; and the 50 costs $650, at $13 per swipe, according to the Dining Services Web site. But some students are disgruntled with the amount of meals they have left at the end of each year. “One thing is that at the end of the year, we have few meal plans left. If we don’t use all of our meal plans, then we don’t get a refund — that’s money down the drain,” said School of Arts and Science junior Jonathan Mirhige. “I had a 285-meal plan my freshman year. I reduced it to 210 the second semester, and I still had 50 left.” Mason Gross School of the Arts junior Stephanie Tsai said she reduced her meal plan since her first year at the University. “I have 105 right now. I chose to get 105, and last year, I had like 15

“There’s no choice … the fact is that SAS is just too big for the Mall,” Qualls said. Each class in the School of Arts and Sciences has more than 4,000 students, but the intent is to call each name, he said. Planning boards have looked at models of graduation ceremonies across the nation and have found ways to condense the reading, Qualls said. University President Richard L. McCormick said if School of Arts and Sciences students desire to keep the tradition of calling each name, it will be kept. “As I understand it, [School of Arts and Sciences] students want to have the names continued to be called individually … It’ll make for a long ceremony, but that’s the choice,” McCormick said. While the University will have several ceremonies for the individual schools, the school is working to make it a smooth experience for students, visitors and parents. “We’re trying to coordinate it to make it comfortable, accessible, to make it easy so that people will be able to go … to a couple of graduations, [and] that they won’t have to come back and forth to campus three or four times,” Furmanski said. Qualls said the proposed date for the 2011 University-wide commencement is Sunday, May 16, but this can be changed as the University Senate has yet to confirm the date. For the Class of 2010, a University-wide commencement will be held as always, but individual convocations will be held for the separate undergraduate schools, not the School of Arts and Sciences. or so leftover,” Tsai said. “I want to lower it because the dining hall is a disappointment [almost] every time I go. Sometimes it’s good, but most of the time I feel like it’s not worth the money I pay for it.” Some students would prefer to have more options to use their meal plans, such as in the Douglass Café, Cook Café and the Sbarro in the Livingston Student Center. “It’s a good deal, but it’s a bit inflexible,” Mirhige said. “There are some places that take meal swipes, which should be expanded … We should be allowed to use our meal swipes on more outside locations.” First-year students must pick the 210 plan and above, and upperclassmen living in residence halls must pick at least 105. “Comparing [costs of the dining hall] to the cost of retail groceries or even what a student might select a la carte from a private restaurant is really like comparing apples to oranges,” Sams said. “The cost structure of anything within a collegiate/university environment really doesn’t compare, plus it is an ‘all you care to eat’ structure, not limited.” Dining Services is responsible for all its own operations and maintenance. The $60 million budget is roughly 80 percent student dining plans, and the other 20 percent is broken down among catering sales, retail sales, some summer meal service and interest and vending commissions. “The department receives no funding from the University and must maintain itself solely on those monies received from operations,” Sams said. “Basically it can be thought of in three different expense types: 30 percent food, 30 percent labor, 40 percent overhead.” He said when there is excess of revenues, it provides sufficient capital for repairs, renovations or to fund new buildings like the new Livingston Dining Commons scheduled to open in 2011.

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The opening event for the 2009-2010 Global Initiatives event series “Ecologies in the balance?” will kick-off at 4:30 p.m. at Alexander Library’s Teleconference Lecture Hall, fourth floor, with an introductory conversation between University faculty. Philip J. Furmanski, executive vice president for Academic Affairs, will introduce the discussion. Discussion participants include University faculty members from several schools: Thomas Farris, School of Engineering; James Katz, School of Communication and Information; Robert W. Lake, Bloustein School of Urban Planning and Public Policy; Fran Mascia-Lees, School of Arts and Sciences; and Lily Young, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui, School of Arts and Sciences, will moderate discussion. More information on upcoming “Ecologies in the balance?” events can be found at http://ecologies.rutgers.edu.

In his seventh annual Address to the University Community at 1:10 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus, President Richard L. McCormick will summarize accomplishments of Rutgers’ faculty, students and administrators during the past year and reaffirm Rutgers’ commitment to all its stakeholders during these challenging economic times.

The Department of English will host “A Memorial Celebration of the Life and Work of Richard Poirier” at 2 p.m. in Kirkpatrick Chapel on the College Avenue campus. Speakers are expected to include University President Richard L. McCormick, President of the Library of America Cheryl Hurley and Columbia University Professor Ross Posnock.

The Engineering Governing Council is one of the oldest governing councils on campus. They represent the engineers and voice their opinions on matters that they are concerned with. Council Meetings are every other Monday at 8 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center in Room 116abc. Their next meeting will be on Monday, September 28 and their next council meeting will be October 12.

OCTOBER

Wake up and come to the first Leadership Breakfast meeting in the Cook Campus Center in Room 202 ABC on the second floor. Breakfast will begin at 7:30 a.m. with leadership activities beginning at 8 and ending at 9 a.m. Don’t miss this monthly opportunity to discuss issues pertinent to the progress and development of Cook campus. Please bring a friend along. The Leadership Breakfast meeting provides an opportunity for diligent Cook student leaders and staff to discuss issues such as student welfare, safety matters, transportation, housing, campus center and construction projects pertinent to Cook campus.

The Raritan River collaborative’s first annual Fall Float, a gentle six-mile float from Riverside/Bakelite Park in Piscataway to the Rutgers boat dock in New Brunswick, takes place at 1 p.m. The float will pass by colorful autumn foliage and under the historic arch bridges of the Raritan. Arrive with your canoe or kayak and life vest at Riverside Park for sign-in between 12 and 12:45 p.m. Vans will return paddlers to Riverside Park between 3 and 5 p.m. Events at Rutgers boat dock include snacks and drink, booths by local organizations and free T-shirts for participants. Donations are $10 per person. Please pre-register by Oct. 1. Space is limited. The event will be canceled in the event of heavy storms, lightning or small craft advisories. Contact Karen Lowrie at klowrie@rutgers.edu, (717) 471-0160, or see www.blueraritan.org.

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Floodwaters continue to ravage Southeast THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUSTELL, Ga. — Neighborhoods, schools and even roller coasters at Six Flags over Georgia remained awash in several feet of murky, brown water yesterday, even as an emerging sun shed light on the widespread flood damage. So far, at least nine deaths in Georgia and Alabama were blamed on the torrential downpours in the Southeast. The storms finally relented and relief was in sight with just a slight chance of rain overnight, but the onslaught left many parts of the region in stagnant water. In Tennessee, a man was still missing after jumping into the fast-moving water as part of a bet. Boats and trucks evacuated 120 residents from a retirement center as nearby creeks rose, and several hundred others were ferried from low-lying neighborhoods and motels to dry land. Several hundred people in Georgia took refuge at shelters and of ficials worked to clean up and repair washed out roads and bridges. Georgia of ficials estimated $250 million in damages. The storm left nine people dead in its wake, including a toddler swept from his father’s arms. Yesterday rescuers found the body of 14-year-old Nicholas Osley who was swimming in the Chattooga River, along with another woman who was swept from her car in Douglas County just west of Atlanta. Authorities also released a 15-minute 911 call of another storm victim’s last moments. Seydi Burciaga, 39, screamed to a dispatcher as water rose to her neck. The dispatcher advised her to try to break a window, but she can’t. “I don’t want to drown here, please!” Burciaga said. After several days of steady rain, the ground was saturated from Alabama through Georgia into eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. The floods came just months after an epic

two-year drought in the region ended with winter rains. Georgia emergency officials warned residents not to return to their homes too soon because the lingering water was still dangerous. Some ignored officials and had to be rescued. “We had people who were out safely but decided they wanted to get back in danger,” said Charley English, head of Georgia Emergency Management Agency. The devastation surrounding Atlanta was widespread. In Austell, about 17 miles west of downtown Atlanta, Sweetwater Creek overflowed its banks, sending muddy water rushing into a nearby mobile home park where several trailers were almost completely submerged. “We don’t know what to do,” said Jenny Roque, 30, who lived there with her husband and four children. “The only thing we have left is our truck.” Just down the road, in the Mulberr y Creek subdivision, large houses built just five years ago were partially underwater. Some residents tried to salvage anything. “There’s things that you can’t replace, but it’s just stuf f,” said Deborah Golden, whose split-level home was mostly under water. “But there are four people in our family and we’re all safe so we’re glad for that.” As Peachtree Creek in Atlanta began to recede, residents were packing moving vans with furniture and commiserating about water-logged apartments. “I’m toast,” said Penny Freeman, who moved into a firstfloor unit five days ago. “I don’t have a place to stay. I’m losing my mind right now.” Washed-out roads and flooded freeways around metro Atlanta caused commuters headaches. Gov. Sonny Perdue asked President Barack Obama to declare a state of emergency in Georgia. At one of the largest shelters at the Cobb County Civic Center, Shirley Jones sat with others on

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Steve Logan, left, removes items from his sister’s home with the help of a neighbor, Becky Bentley, yesterday in Georgia. Flooding due to heavy rain forced people out of their homes.

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Hundreds of streets were closed due to the heavy rain floods in Austell, Ga. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a State of Emergency for 17 Georgia counties. green cots, chatting about the fate of their homes. Around them, children played games, oblivious to the destruction. “When I saw the water rising, it brought back bad memories,” said Jones, who lived in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. The 72-

year-old had moved to the area two months ago. Jones said rescue efforts this time went much more smoothly. A boat retrieved her from a family member’s house. Before being evacuated, Cordell Albert and her husband

Christopher moved their valuables to the second floor of their Powder Springs home. The couple waded through knee-deep water before a raft picked them up. “I feel lost,” she said. “I feel homeless.”

Santa Ana fires torch 6,000 California acres THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOORPARK, Calif. — New wildfires threatened homes in Southern California on yesterday as hot and dry Santa Ana winds turned the region into a tinder box. A blaze in rural hills of Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles spread over 6,000 acres — more than nine square miles — threatening the northwestern area of the city of Moorpark, said county fire spokesman Bill Nash. Evacuations were ordered for scattered ranches and homes. Fire Capt. Ron Oatman couldn’t provide a specific number but said numerous homes and electrical infrastructure were threatened. One small building was seen ablaze. “Don’t wait for an evacuation order if you feel like you’re in danger,” he said.

Air tankers including a DC10 jumbo jet and big helitankers bombarded the flames with retardant and water while hundreds of firefighters worked on the ground. Two minor injuries to firefighters were reported. Temperatures topped 100 and humidity fell to single digits while winds gusted to 30 mph, Nash said. “Those are all the ingredients you need to make a fast-moving fire,” he said. City spokesman Hugh Riley said the water district authorized avocado growers to turn on irrigation sprinklers in their orchards. He noted that the fire was following the path of a blaze several years ago. “That was a big one and fortunately it burned a lot of the fuel that could feed this one,” he said.

Another fire broke out in Riverside County, 40 miles east of Los Angeles, and burned from the city of Riverside into the city of Norco and toward adjacent Corona. Norco Fire Chief Jack Frye said the 120- to 150-acre fire was up to 60 percent contained and no homes had been lost despite gusts up to 45 mph. In neighboring San Bernardino County, a 17-acre blaze damaged unidentified structures in Redlands. City spokesman Carl Baker said a dozen homes were evacuated. Containment was estimated at 50 percent. The fires were whipped by the region’s notorious Santa Ana winds, which blow from the northeast, speeding up and warming as they descend through mountain passes and canyons and push seaward. The

air is extremely dry, lowering humidity levels and making brush easier to burn. The Santa Anas also whipped up clouds of ash north and east of Los Angeles in the vast area of the San Gabriel Mountains burned over by a gigantic wildfire that continues to smolder a month after it began. The winds caused some increased fire activity on ridgetops in the San Gabriels, but the haze was from blowing ash, not smoke columns, said Carol Underhills, a public information of ficer for the U.S. Forest Service. The fire burned across 160,557 acres — 251 square miles — of Angeles National Forest after it was ignited by arson on Aug. 26. At its peak it destroyed 89 homes and caused two firefighter deaths.

The fire remained 94 percent surrounded yesterday, and fire commanders again pushed back the projected date for full containment, this time from yesterday evening to Thursday morning, due to the weather. About 600 firefighters watched for flare-ups. “One of your main concerns is the fire that’s down but not out coming back at ya,” said Forest Service spokesman Robert Brady. The weather ser vice also issued “red flag” warnings of fire weather conditions in other parts of California due to a combination of low humidity, high temperatures and wind. Those areas included the hills east of San Francisco Bay and mountains to the north, the northern Sierra and northern Sacramento Valley and a large swath of the state farther north.

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Obama continues to push for Mideast peace THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Bristling with impatience, President Barack Obama sternly prodded Israeli and Palestinian leaders yesterday to relaunch Mideast peace negotiations, grasping a newly personal role in their historic standoff. He won an awkward, stone-faced handshake but no other apparent progress beyond a promise to talk about more talks. There had been hopes for weeks that there might be more to show from the first meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas since Netanyahu took office in March — perhaps even a dramatic announcement by Obama of the resumption of the Mideast peace negotiations that broke off over a year ago. That wasn’t to be. Despite months of ef for t, the sides remain far apart on a staunch Palestinian precondition for talks: that Israel halt all construction of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory. Obama has publicly echoed that demand to Israeli leaders — though the Palestinians noted with displeasure that he used the word “restrain” yesterday rather than “halt” or “freeze.” The president hosted the two foes at his New York hotel during a marathon day of diplomacy on the sidelines of this week’s United Nations General Assembly gathering. It was a high-stakes gambit that could prove to be a timely

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President Barack Obama watches Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas shake hands yesterday during a trilateral meeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Obama is meeting with the two leaders in an attempt to restart peace talks. personal inter vention into a decades-old dispute that Obama has made a presidential priority or a flop that damages Obama’s global credibility on a broader scale. Obama’s Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, said the president took the risk because he believes the moment is uniquely ripe for progress — and because he felt an in-person dis-

play of his rising impatience could help. So, instead of announcing a new round of peace talks, Obama announced a newly intensified effort to bring them about. He tasked Mitchell with continuing to meet with Israeli and Palestinian of ficials while in New York this week, invited negotiators from both sides to come to Washington next week

and asked Secretar y of State Hillar y Rodham Clinton to report to him in mid-October on the status. This tightly compressed time frame, even if not a real deadline, was designed to inject urgency into the process and “concentrate the mind,” said a senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to more freely describe the private meetings.

“Simply put, it is past time to talk about starting negotiations — it is time to move forward,” Obama declared, displaying an unusual level of public frustration as he prepared to sit down with Netanyahu and Abbas for joint talks after meeting with each separately. “We cannot continue the same pattern of taking tentative steps forward and then stepping back.” Spanning over two hours all together, the talks found all leaders promising to work to resume peace negotiations but also often using language described as “blunt” and “direct.” Both leaders kept stressing with Obama their own priorities and fears. Obama in return emphasized a need to take risks and give up some things for a bigger goal, said a senior administration official. According to Mitchell, Obama told the leaders at one point: “The only reason to hold public office is to get things done.” Neither Netanyahu nor Abbas spoke publicly at the meeting site. In a moment deep in symbolism, however, they engaged in an unsmiling and seemingly reluctant handshake at the start of the sitdown, with dozens of cameras clicking to record the moment. “We can do a lot more if we talk to each other,” Netanyahu said later on CNN. “The possibilities are there. Let’s get on with it.” Obama praised both Israelis and Palestinians for positive steps. But he made clear they haven’t done nearly enough.

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WASHINGTON — Jobless workers in imminent danger of losing their unemployment benefits would get a 13-week reprieve under legislation approved yesterday by the House. The House bill, which applies to 27 states plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico with unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or higher, would add to the already-record levels of benefits that have been available to the jobless as the country struggles to recover from its prolonged economic malaise. It would not, however, give any extra benefits to the longtime unemployed in states that have lower levels of joblessness, including Nebraska, North Dakota and Utah. The bill passed easily, 331-83, although the two parties cast the measure in different lights. Democrats said the relief was still needed despite positive signs that their policies were reviving the economy. Republicans said the high jobless rate proved that the Obama administration’s economic strategies weren’t working. The bill, if enacted, would offer a reprieve to more than 300,000 jobless workers who are slated to run out of unemployment compensation at the end of September and the more than 1 million expected to exhaust their benefits by the end of the year. “Across America there are people who are hanging on by a thin economic lifeline called unemployment insurance,” said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash. “Without passage of this bill, that thread will break for over 1 million workers before the end of this year, plunging them and their families into an economic abyss and threatening to reverse the positive signs we are beginning to see in the economy.” Republican Rep. Geoff Davis of Kentucky, a state that would qualify for more benefits under the bill, said the further extension of benefits was “yet another sign of the failure of this administration’s stimulus plan to create jobs.” The House action reflects the continuing depressed state of the job market despite some signs that the economy is recovering. The unemployment rate now is 9.7 percent and economists see it topping 10 percent in 2010. Some 5 million people, about one-third of those unemployed, have been without a job for six months, the highest number since data was first collected in 1948. There are nearly six unemployed for every available job. “The job-finding situation is still dire,” said Andrew Stettner, deputy director of the research and advocacy group National Employment Law Project. “Until we figure out how to create jobs there is so much collateral damage” from neglecting to help the jobless, including people losing their homes and facing food insecurity and mental depression, he said.

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EDITORIALS

Too quick to draw race card

BC’s popular sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” has been known to make light of political conflicts and make fun of political figures. Thursday, Sept. 17’s episode made no exceptions. The show made fun of the recent outburst of South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson at a joint session of Congress where he shouted “You lie!” “Saturday Night Live” made the joke that the entire Congress was going to shout the phrase at the president, even practicing just how they would do it. After the “rehearsal,” Wilson asks to be excused to go to the bathroom, and while there the rest of Congress decides they are too chicken to shout anything at the president and opt out of the original plan, all without telling Wilson. If only that was a simple enough excuse for Wilson’s disrespectful behavior. Wilson offered President Barack Obama an apology, which the president accepted, but there is still buzz going on about the inappropriate behavior. An argument being brought up by many discussing the issue is about how the exact cause of Wilson’s outburst relates to racism. Former President Jimmy Carter even offered his two cents, saying that he thinks “an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.” Even “Saturday Night Live” brought up that Wilson’s background is a pretty solid argument for reasons because of race. The man is a representative from history’s leading Confederate state, and his chief legislative effort was to keep the Confederate flag flying over the state’s capitol. But are we as a society way too quick to draw the race card when dealing with issues surrounding the president? Obama’s big pitch when running for president was that he was going to bring change. As much as people wanted and still hope for change, they are afraid of it. Once you are used to a way of doing something, whether positive or negative, the idea of change can be scary. It causes uncertainty because something new that you are not used to will be brought to the table. The health care issue brings a lot of weight with it because it is one of the bigger changes Obama would be making in the country. People really need to trust the person making this change that it is going to work out. Trust may be the main issue with the American people and Obama’s health care plan. Besides trust, there is also the ongoing battle of Democrat versus Republican. The battle seems to be getting more extreme as the years go on, and Obama is going to face most of his strife with this battle as he tries to make more changes to what the conservative Republicans are used to having in their country. This is where the brunt of Wilson’s frustrations may have gotten the best of him. His outburst could have been a result of a lot of pent up frustration from arguing over an issue for so long. That being said, he still should have kept his big mouth shut during that meeting. His behavior was disrespectful and no president, no matter the race, deserves to be yelled at while he is trying to deliver a speech. Obama himself has commented that race is not the main issue here, but there are elements that plague our country’s way of thinking. The younger generation has proven that we can look past the color of someone’s skin, as many younger voters came out and got Obama into office. It is more the older generations stuck in their old fashioned ways of viewing the world. These old fashioned ideas get passed down to younger generations in certain areas of the country but change can occur and hopefully the self-fulfilling prophecies that racism can get people stuck in will disappear. The country cannot completely ignore the fact that there is still existing racism in the country, even if it is not at the forefront of the nation’s issues. During the election the subject of race and racism was a big deal. It was almost like there was a fear of being called a racist if you were to say you weren’t voting for Obama, and if you were confident in your decision to vote against the Democratic Party a possible response to your decision was that you were racist. It is ridiculous to think that the only reason a person would have something against President Obama is because he is a person of color; the possibility that one disagrees with a policy or a plan to change something is also plausible, which is why we cannot say the reason Wilson yelled at Obama was because he is a racist. Pulling out the race card only distracts America from the real issue at hand. Obama was speaking about health care, which has been a big argument in Congress for quite some time now. That is what the public should be debating about, not whether there is a problem with racism in the country. The race card should stop being brought out every time there is a person with a problem regarding something Obama is proposing because it is going to get old very quickly. Eventually it won’t even cause a buzz — it will just be seen as an excuse that Obama supporters are trying to make for policies that are not pleasing everyone.

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“More and more young adults wake up the day after their 19th birthday or on graduation day and find themselves uninsured … health insurance reform will help ensure young Americans have access to the affordable health care they need and deserve.” Kathleen Sebelius, United States Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, on the problems young adults face with health care STORY ON FRONT

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tions to prevent the most s it was when I unhealthy, or least profwrote my column itable, Americans from of two weeks ago, being excluded or dropped health care reform continfrom private coverage ues to be among the most when they are deemed too pressing political issues of expensive to insure. our day. While many on Reflecting on the the right have insisted that JOSH BAKER above, it becomes virtually any reform is unnecessar y undeniable that health or unwanted, an honest care reform is necessar y. But is it wanted? A new evaluation of the predicament faced by tens of Web video released by the National Republican millions of Americans shows that such claims Senatorial Committee posits that a majority of could not be fur ther from the truth. First, with Americans have “rejected” the public option. regard to the necessity of reform, a study Fur thermore, last month, Bill Sammon, vice released by Har vard Medical School president of the world’s foremost beacon of jourresearchers last week found that almost “45,000 nalistic integrity, Fox News, stated on air, people die in the United States each year — one “People are saying they don’t want the public ever y 12 minutes — in large par t because they option, as that [Ipsos/McClatchy] poll demonlack health insurance and can not [sic] get good strates.” Really? The people don’t want a public care.” For the sake of perspective, this means option? That’s quite interesting to hear, especialthat ever y year a group of Americans nearly ly in light of the fact that the ver y poll to which equivalent in size to the population of the city of Sammon refers actually found New Brunswick die needlessly. that 52 percent of Americans do Those who contend that such “The ultimate goal think it is “necessar y to create a untenable suffering and death public health insurance plan” might eventually be overcome of private health while only 44 percent do not. by simply allowing private insurinsurance companies is Further, many other polls have ance companies to continue found similar numbers, some operating and competing with not to ensure the putting suppor t for a public one another in the free market well-being of their option as high as 77 percent. without any “oppressive” govOkay, maybe the majority of ernment regulations cannot posclients, but to maximize Americans actually do support sibly have given the matter — the public option, but so what? or, for that matter, the wellness their own profits.” Surely the doctors will never go of their fellow countrymen — along with it! Wait, what’s that? much serious thought. As Paul The New England Journal of Medicine just pubKrugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in ecolished a study finding that 73 percent of physinomics and professor of economics and internacians support a public option? Oh well, looks like tional affairs at Princeton University, wrote on his it’s time to break out the trusty centerpieces of blog this past July: “There are … no examples of the old right-wing playbook: labeling progressuccessful health care based on the principles of sives as un-American, communist Nazis and disthe free market, for one simple reason: in health seminating misleading information to millions care, the free market just doesn’t work. And peoacross the countr y. With regard to the former, ple who say that the market is the answer are flyGOP leaders in Congress and around the countr y ing in the face of both theory and overwhelming have been questioning the patriotism of evidence.” In short, the ultimate goal of private President Barack Obama and other Democrats health insurance companies is not to ensure the since last year’s primar y elections and recently well-being of their clients, but to maximize their have gone so far to imply that their efforts to own profits. Thus, such organizations are categorically incapable of providing effective health care SEE BAKER ON PAGE 13 — at least not without strict government regula-

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Students need to know how to approach H1N1 virus Letter JOHN WILDMAN

espite the fact that swine flu, or influenza H1N1, has become a worldwide pandemic that tends to target those under 25 years of age, University students need to relax and take the following prescription: chill pills. Allow me to re-educate you. Every year roughly between the months of November to April is flu season. During these months, the latest strain of influenza tends to infect people at a peak rate. Influenza, or “flu” for short, goes though constant genetic variations. Over time, the changes in the genetic makeup behind the flu virus can accumulate, causing the overall structure and function of the flu virus to change. Thus, the flu virus can change yearly, and as a result, a new vaccine is required yearly to help fight off the season’s strain of influenza.

Unfortunately for all of humanity, this year’s seasonal flu virus is a bit tougher than previous strains. H1N1 is the result of genetic components from birds, pigs and humans. In a ver y rare phenomenon, four different strains of influenza attacked the same target, got mashed up through a process called reassor tment, and the result in an extremely virulent, extremely contagious version of the flu. You know if you have the swine flu if you have the following symptoms: fever above 100 degrees, coughing, sore throat, sometimes runny nose, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue, diarrhea and vomiting. What does this mean to people in the United States? at the University? It means we need to change our lifestyle habits and practices to accommodate for this new challenge. Fellow students, please commit to doing the following:

Wash your hands. By doing so, one helps to slow down the spread of viruses and bacteria. The eyes, nose and throat are prime areas for virus entry into the body and hands tend to contact these areas commonly. What this means is that if I see another person not wash their hands after using the bathroom at the campus center, a trashcan might come flying. Use common sense. If someone nearby sneezes, rubs their nose and mouth with their hand, then approaches you with a handshake, you have my approval to back away in disgust and perhaps even run. Kidding aside, be polite but be firm in how you deal with others, especially if you suspect that people in your environment are sick. Stay home if you get sick. Currently, the supported protocol to follow if you believe you have come down with the flu is to stay home for 24 hours to allow the

fever to pass. Rest and get fluids. Use acetaminophen or ibuprofen to handle the fever. Afterwards, it is safe for you to return to your normal schedule. But please, I beg of you, do not come into class with a fever, even if you have three exams to take or you want to make it to the Jack’s Mannequin concert on the 21 for the sake of those around you, their well being and yours, especially if you get them sick and they know it. Keep the immune system strong. Get enough sleep, try to eat every day and in a timely manner and listen to your body. I’m a student and I’ve pulled the allnighters, eaten so poorly that one would think I was raised in a developing Third World nation, and I’ve disregarded my tired and hungr y body to pursue other necessities, such as rock banding or catching the “House” marathon on TV. I’ve been there and I know, but this is not the time for that type of living.

Get vaccinated — and early. Do this for both the season flu as well as the novel H1N1 flu strain. The latter vaccine will be given by the University free of charge sometime in late October. Pay attention to e-mails for more information. If you do get sick, you can go see a doctor. You may be tested, and if the results come back positive there are drugs that can assist to reduce the symptoms and increase recovery time against H1N1. However, this is not necessary. Your body will be able to fight off the virus on its own. I want to stress this because our nation’s hospitals are usually thinly staffed, and with the oncoming outbreak, hospitalization should be sought in response to a flu-related complication. But even with the slightest indication that your condition is worsening, go see a doctor immediately. John Wildman is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in genetics.

Ode to Rutgers’ transportation system Letter GEORGE GHANIM

h, Rutgers transportation system … how you suck. With your 35,000 students and jerky stops, you are the shining moment to my every morning. I watch you carefully as you approach from afar and pray, just pray, that you may grant me entrance so that I may make it to class on time. Your numbing screech pierces my brain as you jerk to a stop several yards from a throng of eagerly awaiting students. Oh, Rutgers transportation system. Your doors gently swing open revealing an inconceivable

BAKER continued from page 12 reform health care are really just part of a secret plot to kill your grandparents, while conser vative pundits have relentlessly compared Democratic leaders to Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Regarding the latter, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Ser vices recently found that numerous Medicare Advantage organizations “have contacted enrollees alleging that current health care reform legislation affecting Medicare could hurt seniors and disabled individuals who could lose important benefits and ser vices as a result of the legislation.” This claim, though oft-repeated, does not come close to reflecting anything that was ever proposed in any of the dozens of health care bills produced in Congress. The NRSC, not to be outdone, recently mailed out a “sur vey” intimating that any government-run health system will discriminate by race. Writer Michael Lind summarizes the situation per fectly: “The most dangerous deficit that the United States faces is not the budget deficit or the trade deficit. It is the

number of bodies, each intimately close to the next. Although one could hear his neighbors blink, no one makes a move toward your open doors. As I slowly step forward from the streets, pondering if just one more person could fit, your doors slam shut just grazing my nose. I stand, amazed, as your engines roar back to life. I look at the faces and random appendages pressed up hard on the glass as you glide further and further in to the horizon toward Busch campus. Why! Why, oh Rutgers transportation system, would you stop and open your doors? Why would you mock us with false hopes when you are inexorably filled? You are heartless. Democrats’ demagogy deficit. Franklin Roosevelt, looking down from that Hyde Park in the sky, would not be surprised that conser vatives are seeking to channel populist anger and anxiety, not against the Wall Street elites who wrecked the economy, but against reformers promoting health care reform and economic security for ordinar y people. As he told his audience in 1936, ‘It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.’ But FDR would be shocked by the inability of his party to mobilize the public on behalf of reform.” Considering both the forces arrayed against progress and the benefits we as a nation stand to gain should the health care reform effort succeed, we must now strive harder than ever to combat the fear and misinformation being propagated by the American right to proclaim our dire need and immutable desire for the basic health care which many of us have lacked for far too long. Josh Baker is a Rutgers College senior majoring in sociology. He welcomes feedback at jbake74@eden.rutgers.edu. His column, “Zeitgeist,” runs on alternate Wednesdays. He is also a contributing writer for the Johnsonville Press.

Oh, Rutgers transportation system. I finally board an H bus just in time to completely miss class. I move deeper into your mobile cavern, eyeing each possible seat. I gracefully pass each open seat in search for one that would leave me the least scarred. Alas, your seats are filling like a cup during a monsoon. All seems lost and then I spot you — a potential seat next to a cute girl. I sit down amazed at my luck as you turn to me and smile. I look up and meet your eyes, horrified, but it’s too late. Oh, girl with the distractingly large mole on your face. I sit silently, uncomfortably aware that I am being watched.

Although you shut your eyes, your mole stares at me with vicious intent. I attempt to escape the situation by drowning my reality with music. All is successful until I arrive at the realization that your mole is so large it could eat me. Its gravitation draws me in closer, simultaneously misaligning the planets. Although horrified, I want to poke it. It beckons me to explore its potentially inhabitable surface. I want to set sail from the old world into the unknown, land on its shores. Explore the wilderness and colonize the new world, all that is your mole, in the name of humanity, but I digress. As I shift in my seat, disturbed by my

thoughts, I realize that I should have stood … Oh, Rutgers transportation system. I yearn for the day when your seats are open and beautiful college girls roam your aisles, sprinkling me with flowers as I enter. I seek the day when I can travel from Busch to College Avenue — a distance of no more than 4 miles — in less than an hour. I dream about effortless transportation as I sleep. I’ll just keep waiting for the third week of the semester when 33,000 students realize they don’t need to go to class and still do kinda-sorta all right. George Ghanim is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

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Today's Birthday (09/23/09) You're a philosopher this year, always asking thought-provoking questions. Take time out from that to fix your place up a bit, and you'll be a happy camper. 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 an 8 — Take care and play by the rules. A difficult situation gets worse before it gets better. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — You can see a few things that need to be done that the other folks are missing. Protect your own interests. Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7 — You'd like to get your way, but you may have to compromise to make that happen. Give up the thing you like least. Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 —It's impossible to figure out who's going to triumph at this point. Let others stop bickering before you decide. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5 — You're entering a learning phase. Much of this can be found in books; you don't have to spend every day out in the field. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — You're probably more tired than you realize. Take time between tasks to relax and conser ve your energy.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 5 — Test your intuition by asking questions. What seems obvious has a unique twist. Plan your next move carefully. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Tune to the right psychic station and you'll get everything you want. You can take a big step forward spiritually. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Recall what happened yesterday and resolve that you will do that again, but not today. Let romance come to you. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — You think you're completely clear, but others don't understand. Try a new tactic to persuade them. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6 — Someone is trying to force your hand. Not! You still have choices, and you can come out on top. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — Your psychic skills prove valuable. Listen to your heart first, then tell others what's on your mind. Love grows.

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Training, teammates to help RU in tourneys BY MELISSA FALICA STAFF WRITER

From the outside looking in, sport tournaments and competitions appear as a few days full of stressTENNIS free fun. But when you are the athlete in the situation things aren’t as rosy. Tournaments are physically and mentally tough on athletes of any sport; take the Rutgers tennis team as an example. At this weekend’s Brown Invitational, each Scarlet Knight will most likely play three singles matches and three doubles matches each over a span of about two and a half days. “The whole issue of fitness really plays an important role in not only being able to play well but also to withstand the demands of the match so that they don’t get injured,” head coach Ben Bucca said. The most crucial step to being fit is the training the team does before every tournament, Bucca said. “By training correctly and knowing when you walk on the court that you have trained correctly, it often tends to add confidence to your play,” he said. Other than fitness, RU credits two things in helping the team reduce its anxiety before tournaments: They talk and they play together. “We talk openly about it, and by the girls having the opportunity to listen to what one another has to say and just recognizing some of the emotional demands that go on in playing a tennis match, it tends to alleviate some of the pressures,” Bucca said. “In a sport that is traditionally an individual sport, what the girls on the team find is actually having the opportunity to be playing alongside their teammates provides a lot of support for one another.” This weekend and for the rest of the fall, RU catches somewhat of a mental break as its spring events weigh more heavily in importance than those in the fall. In the past, the team has seen its greatest competition come from a few contenders in the Big East. As the other in-state university in the Big East, Seton Hall is a big rival for the team, but over the past few years Marquette and Syracuse have grown to become rivals as well. “We’ve had some incredibly close matches on more than one occasion with both Marquette and Syracuse,” Bucca said. “The closeness of the competition with those schools has really helped to build the rivalry where one did not initially exist.” Regardless of how much is riding on a competition, the goal of the team is to win and that is what Bucca hopes for every time it hits the court. “I hope that they can play well but ultimately I want them to win,” he said. “If that means that they’re not on top of their game but they find a way to win, then that’s what it’s ultimately about.”

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FORMER KNIGHT GREENE TO JAGUARS; CURTIS ON BIG EAST HONOR ROLL The Jacksonville Jaguars signed former Rutgers safety Courtney Greene to their 53man active roster Monday, adding another Scarlet Knight to their team. The Seattle Seahawks drafted Greene in the seventh round of the 2009 NFL Draft, but then cut him in the last week of training camp. He joins classmate wide receiver Tiquan Underwood, who was drafted by the Jaguars in the seventh round this year, and offensive lineman Cam Stephenson, who was drafted in the fifth round by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2007. Both Underwood and Stephenson are currently on Jacksonville’s practice squad. Released by the Seahawks earlier in the month, Greene became the 18th active RU alumnus in the NFL.

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blocker Hannah Curtis was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll Monday following a strong weekend performance at the Bucknell Invitational. The volleyball standout from Wasilla, Ala., has been a key part of a surging Scarlet Knight squad that is off to one of the best seasons in recent memory. Selected as the MVP of the Bucknell Invitational, Curtis recorded 35 kills in 11 sets as well as nine blocks. The sophomore dominated the Bison to the tune of five blocks and 11 kills to help the Knights secure their first tournament victory since 2004. The sophomore is second in the team in both kills and blocks, with 118 and 21, respectively. — Steven Williamson

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After spending the summer with the Egyptian U-20 National Team, Aly Mazhar (right) chose Rutgers over the U-20 World Cup.

STANDOFF: Defender spurns U-20 team for Rutgers continued from back been with the national team program for four years now. … It’s helped me a lot because it’s a lot of experience to play on an international basis against strong teams from everywhere. You’re playing teams from Latin America, from Africa, from Asia, from Europe, and it brings your game up and it really helps your game a lot.” Mazhar made enough of an impression this summer that his coach asked him to stay and play in the U-20 World Cup, which is hosted by Egypt. Yet Mazhar felt like he had unfinished business at Rutgers and elected to return to school for his junior season. “To stay [with Egypt U-20s] there was a condition that I would sign a pro contract,” said the junior, who is working on a degree in finance. “That would make me lose my scholarship here and I told [the coach] I needed to finish school. My parents wouldn’t even think about letting me skip school and stay there. I figured it was too much risk. If I stayed there and signed a

contract I would not get a degree and soccer is not guaranteed.” The decision to return to school showed a lot of maturity for a 19 year old. “Aly is a wonderful player, but he also adds a bit of class to the team, and he’s got a big personality and is a great character guy,” said head coach Bob Reasso. Mazhar has grown up on the field too, crediting Reasso for helping make the adjustment between styles. “The style of play is so different,” he said. “In Egypt everybody relies on technique. When I came here the game is a lot faster. Coach helped me adapt to playing against stronger, faster players especially when I was younger.” Having the 6-foot, 175-pound Egyptian healthy and in the center of defense paid off for the Scarlet Knights when they took all six points in a weekend sweep over Providence and Connecticut — because he could have easily been somewhere else. “There is a lot of disappointment [about not playing for the Egypt U-20’s],” Mazhar said. “I got to a point where I had to make a decision and I had to think about it a little more, and I had to make the right decision. I’m not regretting it.”

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Wallace not answer; Seattle should start Teel now

tart Mike Teel. Now wait — I realize how ludicrous this statement is, but before you turn the page to whatever porn ad The Daily Targum is running today or navigate away from TargumBlog to the newest Sporcle quiz, hear me out.

Seattle Seahawks quar terback Matt Hasselbeck is out with a broken rib, and he is not getting any younger. He could miss significant time — not just week three, which is the projection right now — and why waste time with Seneca

Wallace? Wallace’s arm can’t get it done, and if the Seahawks think they can beat the Chicago Bears’ defense with Wallace’s legs and the running ability of Julius Jones, think again. Wallace played the majority of last season with Hasselbeck

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Former Rutgers quarterback Mike Teel was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the sixth round. Teel was the second Knight drafted this year and is second on the depth chart after an injury to Matt Hasselbeck.

injured and led Seattle to its first non-playof f appearance in five years and an abysmal 4-12 finish. However sad as this may seem, Teel, the greatest statistical quarterback in Rutgers histor y, has the best arm of Seattle’s active quar terbacks; first-year head coach Jim Mora Jr. needs to utilize Teel’s talents if he wants a shot against the Brian Urlacher-less Bears. The Seahawks are already down one division game, and if they want to tread water until Hasselbeck returns, they have to use the weapons they have to the best of their ability. On the ground, Seattle has two past-their-prime r unning backs in Jones and Edgerrin James who can expect tough luck against the Bears’ front seven. In the air, however, Seattle has T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Deion Branch, Nate Burleson and John Carlson — four legitimate weapons (and two people that need touches for my fantasy team to succeed). Houshmandzadeh pulled in 2,047 yards and a NFL-high 204 receptions in his last two seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals and has a chance to emerge even fur ther as a receiver without suffocating in the shadow and antics of Chad Ochocinco. But his skills cannot be utilized with Wallace at the helm. Branch is a former Super Bowl MVP with the Patriots and

Hell’s Kitchen SAM HELLMAN Burleson and has a 1,000-yard season in his past. Carlson, who started at tight end for the Seahawks last season with the depar ture of Jeremy Stevens, had 627 yards and five touchdowns as a rookie out of Notre Dame. Now let’s quickly look at Teel. He was a very hot-and-cold player during his tenure at RU, but his final seven games are about as scorching as a quarterback could be. Who says that can’t carry over to the NFL? Mora took Teel with the 178th pick for a reason. Mora took Teel over the likes of Chase Daniel, Graham Harrell and Curtis Painter for a reason. Teel has more upside than Wallace, and it isn’t like the Seahawks are going much of anywhere without Hasselbeck anyway. Give Teel a shot. Who knows? Maybe he’ll throw for seven touchdowns and 447 yards like he did against Louisville last year. — Sam Hellman accepts comments and criticism at sthellman@gmail.com

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Grothe out for season; WVU, Louisville fall to SEC BY BILL DOMKE CORRESPONDENT

South Florida lost quarterback Matt Grothe for the season after he tore his BIG EAST ACL in the Bulls’ 59-0 rout of Charleston Southern. Grothe, who led the Big East in passing for the first two

weeks, was tripped from behind by Charleston Southern defensive tackle David Jackson. He was then smacked by defensive back Antwain Har vey while falling forward. But the senior wouldn’t leave the game before giving USF (3-0) a comfortable 28-0 lead. Grothe was 11-of-14 for 149 yards and two touchdowns,

including a 50-yard heave to Carlton Mitchell. Redshirt freshman B.J. Daniels replaced Grothe at quarterback.

NO. 17 CINCINNATI (3-0) continued its weekly tirade of opponents, this time blowing past Oregon State in a 28-18 victory. The Bearcats snapped the Beavers’ streak of 26 straight non-conference victories at Reser Stadium. Senior quarterback Tony Pike went 31-of-49 for 332 yards and two touchdowns, including an 18yard scoring pass to senior Mardy Gilyard. Gilyard came into the game with a four-touchdown game last weekend to make him the first player to score on a punt return, catch and run since Maurice Jones — now Jones-Drew — did so in 2005 with UCLA. Oregon State’s Sean Canfield completed 29-of-45 passes for 240 yards and an interception.

Senior quarterback Matt Grothe will not get another chance to beat the Scarlet Knights after he tore his ACL Saturday in the Bulls’ 59-0 defeat over Charleston Southern at Raymond James Stadium.

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TEAM RECORD BIG EAST POINTS 1. No. 14 Cincinnati 3-0 1-0 40 2. Pittsburgh 3-0 0-0 35 3. West Virginia 2-1 0-0 27 4. Connecticut 2-1 0-0 25 5. RUTGERS 2-1 0-1 21 6. South Florida 3-0 0-0 17 7. Syracuse 1-2 0-0 8 8. Louisville 1-1 0-0 7 * Eight points awarded for first place, seven for second place, etc. * Five members of the Targum sports desk submitted ballots

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ception by Jake Ricks set the Tigers up for a 17-yard touchdown pass from Todd to Dar vin Adams in the four th quar ter to give the team the lead for good. Jarrett Brown did not have a good night in the air, throwing 18of-32 for 221 yards, one touchdown and four interceptions.

was not enough for West Virginia to hold off a surging Auburn football team 41-30 in a rain-delayed game in which both teams combined for more than 900 offensive yards. Auburn’s Chris Todd threw for four touchdowns and an interception on 16-for-31 passing, including an 82-yard bomb to Mario Fannin to tie the game 27-27 midway through the third quar ter. The Mountaineers (2-1) regained the lead after wards with a field goal, but an inter-

game that turned in a win for UConn this weekend, as Andre Dixon and Jordan Todman ran for 149 and 103 yards, respectively, in a 30-22 victor y over Baylor. The game marked the second time this season that each broke the 100-yard mark in the same game. The victory was welcome for the Huskies (2-1) after a disappointing home loss against North Carolina last weekend.

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Husky quar terback Cody Endress found comfort in the aggressive r unning game — the freshman filled in for injured star ter Zach Frazer with 12-of-23 passing for 147 yards and no turnovers.

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Kentucky squeaked past Louisville 31-27 behind two touchdowns from Wildcat junior running back Derrick Locke. Syracuse put away Northwestern 37-34 on a 41yard field goal in the fourth quarter. Basketball star turned quarterback Greg Paulus lit up the Wildcat defense for 346 yards and two touchdowns on 24-of-35 passing. Pitt thrashed out-of-conference foe Navy to the tune of 2714, with Panther sophomore wide receiver Jonathan Baldwin hauling in six grabs for 111 yards.

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Targum’s volleyball beat writer Bill Domke chats with the Rutgers head coach about his newborn son, his brilliant timing and whether he will be supporting the team in its home opener this weekend ... Bill Domke: How’s the baby doing? CJ Werneke: Great. Week-old-child — hungry, sleeping. That’s all they do. COURTESY OF FPF

Former Rutgers soccer player Kimberly Brandao (right) will captain the Portuguese National Team as they begin their quest to qualify for the 2011 Women’s World Cup. Portugal has never qualified for the World Cup and will face heavily-favored Italy tonight in its opening contest of the UEFA group stages.

PORTUGAL: Brandao excited to represent country continued from back interest in the game among young girls in Portugal and also get the respect of men in Portugal. Because, of course, they love the game over there, but the respect for the women’s game isn’t yet there.” As a newly named captain of the Portuguese women’s national soccer team, Brandao’s quest to quash those old ways begins in earnest tonight when Portugal takes on Italy in its first qualifying match for the 2011 World Cup. The Por tuguese women’s team has never qualified for the World Cup. But since Brandao, 25, joined Portugal in 2007, the team is on an upswing evident in upsets over Poland and Slovakia. While Brandao is the first to admit that beating Italy tonight and qualifying for the World Cup are long shots, she has no doubt that her team is headed in the right direction.

“I feel that if we can keep improving in the next year at the same rate we’ve improved since I made my debut two years ago then we have a chance,” she said. “Anything above third place in the group would be a success. Finland and Italy are both very strong women’s soccer nations though.”

“It will be the biggest thing ever for Portugal women’s soccer if we make the World Cup.” KIMBERLY BRANDAO Portugal Captain

Above watching the team’s success, Brandao still gets a thrill out of simply representing her country of origin. Though she was born and raised in Rahway, N.J., both of Brandao’s parents were born in Portugal. And though the ’06 Rutgers alumna went on to play

professional soccer in Sweden, Spain and the United States, she has yet to find an experience that matches that of playing center back for Portugal. “When you represent your national team, there’s a huge feeling of pride,” she said. “I feel it every time I step on the field for Portugal. I’ve never been emotional before playing a club game. But during the national anthem of my first game for Portugal, my eyes were full of tears because of how special it felt to be representing something so much more important than just a club team.” All that’s left is for Brandao to watch her hard work come to fruition in the form of a World Cup berth that most wouldn’t have thought possible just two years ago. It’s still a lofty goal, but if there’s one thing Brandao recognizes ever y time she puts on a Portugal uniform and hears that national anthem playing it’s that anything is possible. “It will be the biggest thing ever for Portugal women’s soccer if we make the World Cup,” Brandao said. “That’s what I am desperate to be a part of.”

BD: Did you pick the name Noah statistically for tallness? CW: No, we just liked it. Whittled it down between the mom and me, and it was one of the top two names we would go with if we had a son, so we just went with it. BD: Did you pick the name Noah because it was particularly intimidating for a volleyball player? CW: [laughs] No real reason. His name’s Noah William Werneke. We just like the way that it flowed. It sounded pretty cool. BD: OK, your baby is born the week your team takes its first tournament title. Is that coincidence? Fate? Formula? CW: Our staff and some parents already said “You’re 3-0 as a father of two.” We’re looking to continue that streak this week with South Florida and Georgetown so hopefully I’ll be 5-0 as a father of two. BD: Do you have any preference for the baby’s first words? CW: Win. BD: If your son ever came to Rutgers for a sport, what would you want him to play? CW: I want him to play whatever I thought he would be successful in. Me being an ex-football guy, I think I would want him to dabble in that sport a bit, but whatever he would be successful in is what I would prefer. BD: Whom does he look like? CW: Oh, me. There’s no question about that. BD: But does he have his mother’s eyes? CW: We can’t tell right now. Both my wife and I have blue eyes. My eyes are a little bluer and brighter than my wife’s, and our daughter definitely has my eyes, but our daughter looks like me too, so I’m winning out in the gene pool here. BD: Is your son going to be here this weekend? CW: He will be here Sunday for sure. Actually, my wife and I are moving into a new home Saturday so my in-laws are moving us, but I’m not sure if they’ll make it to the game. BD: Is there any strategic value for bringing the baby to the game? Distraction? CW: Actually, it would be the other way around. We want our team focused. I asked [my wife] if they did make the matches to show up after the first couple points of game one so our kids would be focused on the match.

COURTESY OF FPF

Kimberly Brandao (center), a 2006 Rutgers graduate, was born in Rahway, N.J., but qualified for the Portuguese National Team because her parents were both born in the European nation. Portugal faces Italy tonight in its group stage opener for qualifcation to the 2011 Women’s World Cup in Germany.

BD: If the team progresses at the same rate that it has been, what do you think about ‘Cradle to the Grave’ as 2009’s mantra? CW: Whatever works. Whatever gets us to the Big East Championships. I think that’s a fitting mantra.

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PRACTICE NOTEBOOK

FORST,

VETS HELP

BY STEVEN MILLER CORRESPONDENT

Thought by many to be the strength of the offense entering the season, the offensive line remains a question mark for the Rutgers football team. The latest change in head coach Greg Schiano’s search for the best unit was the insertion of sophomore Desmond Wynn into the starting lineup Saturday.

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“It’s going to be a work in progress. No one wants it to be settled more than I do,” Schiano said. Wynn, who converted from defensive lineman last spring, started at right guard, while sophomore Art Forst slid to the left guard position. “He was playing defense a little over a year ago, and he came over here and is picking everything up,” Forst said. “The great thing about Desmond is he

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Sophomore Desmond Wynn saw his first significant playing time on the Banks when he started Rutgers’ 23-15 victory Saturday at right guard as sophomore guard Art Forst shifted to the left side.

desires to learn … He might be one of the best athletes on the offensive line, so he does a lot of things naturally well.” Wynn credits Forst and seniors Kevin Haslam and Ryan Blaszczyk in helping him adjust, specifically the example they set in the film room. “Art Forst, Kevin Haslam and Ryan Blaszczyk, they’re always watching film, always there early, staying late at night,” Wynn said. “They’re always helping me out with that.” In the film room, the group goes through different situations by looking at the tape. “We’ll take a formation that we run certain plays out of, we’ll put it up on the screen and we’ll play the game,” Forst said. “Like, who would you block on this play? Who would you block with this pressure?” As he continues to learn, Wynn also continues to fight for his job. Although sophomore Caleb Ruch remains sidelined with a leg injur y, junior Howard Barbieri continued to play significant time at guard. “Coach [Schiano] says that he loves competition for jobs because it keeps the program getting better,” Wynn said. “So I just come in every day and keep pushing for the job.” Wynn is aware of the competition and refuses to get too comfortable in his new starting role. “When you get too comfortable you can slip up and bad things happen,” he said. “You just have to keep being a student of the game and getting ready … Hopefully I’ll be in the starting five and stay in the starting five.”

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Freshman Tom Savage has yet to play on the road with Rutgers, but will do so Saturday when RU travels to College Park, Md. worst performance against FIU, he will face his first road challenge Saturday against Maryland. The artificial crowd noise the team practices with faced the offensive field for the first time this season, after three home games to open the season. “That’s been pointing at the defensive field for the past few weeks, now it’s pointing at the offensive field,” Schiano said. “I don’t know if that makes a difference or not; it gives you a little bit of adversity out here.” Forst made his first career start at West Virginia last season and credited the coaches for preparing the team for the atmosphere they would be playing in. “I try to talk to them early in the week about what going on the road means,” Schiano said. “A true freshman like Tom

[Savage], he has no idea. He has not faced the deafening noise on offense yet. That’s part of having a young quarterback. He’s going to find out here in a couple days.”

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Saturday against Maryland can be viewed by on-campus residents on RUTV channel 8, where they will stream the ESPN360 broadcast. “The ESPN360 feed on TV may have some minor flaws, but it will help people avoid bandwidth issues,” RUTV assistant director of broadcast operations Brent Smith said. “It should also make it available more easily in common areas. We’re really grateful to the folks at ESPN for understanding our situation and being willing to allow this special coverage on campus.”

NATALE: Quarterback

did against Cincinnati is not a fair representation of what he can do. “One thing I say about Dom is scored first touchdown vs. FIU — like it’s often said — life is 10 percent what happens to you and continued from back 90 percent how you respond to “I was joking with Kordell it,” said sophomore right guard [Young] today saying that I have a Art Forst. “What happened to rushing touchdown and he doesDom is tough as a fifth-year senn’t [this season],” Natale said. ior, but he’s such an excellent “Then he has a passing touchleader and such a good man, that down [in his career] and I don’t.” he still leads. With a healthy Savage and the “He still gets on you when already-placed “Jabu Package,” you’re not performing [and] still expect the goal line to be where demands from his teammates, Natale sees the most action despite the situation with not being “I like to use them effectively,” the starting quarterback anymore. Schiano said. “I If he has to take guess Jabu’s thing command, I feel is different. It’s a perfectly comfort“I’ll be ready. different package. able with that. He ... If Tom can go Then you have knows the offense; your starter and he’s proven he can or can’t go, it won’t you’re backup. make some throws Dom had the one be different for me.” … He works the specialty play that same way and he DOM NATALE we had for him, leads the same way Senior Quarterback and he executed it as a fifth-year senwell. He’s good on ior. I appreciate the goal line. … that about him.” Maybe that’s something we’ll do. Natale has the added advanSome people worry about putting tage Saturday of experience in a a cold guy in on the goal line. I hostile environment. He had a understand that.” handful of snaps last season at At this point, Natale is ready Pittsburgh, making him the secand willing to do anything to get ond most experienced quarterin a game. back in terms of playing time on “If that’s what coach the road behind Lovelace. [Schiano] thinks is the best “It’s kind of a neat thing for chance for us to score in that situs,” Natale said of the team’s first uation,” Natale said. “Then I’m road trip. “You’re really on your down for it. I’m ready for it.” own out there. … You don’t pay That willingness to play and attention to it too much when you drive to be successful has get in the game, but it definitely impressed Natale’s teammates. feels a little bit louder than when The Knights think what Natale you’re at home.”

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Senior Dom Natale, RU’s starting quarterback in the season-opening loss to Cincinnati, was pulled in favor of true freshman Tom Savage after throwing three interceptions in the first half.

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Natale ready if Savage cannot go vs. Maryland BY SAM HELLMAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Fifth-year senior quarterback Dom Natale scored the first touchdown of his collegiate career in the second quarter of the Knights’ 23-15 victory this weekend over Florida International. Natale plunged forward from two yards out to put Rutgers on top by 10 points.

Tom Savage insists he feels fine. Minus a bump on the head, he’s OK and he’s FOOTBALL preparing to start against Maryland. But if there is a relapse, and if he can’t go for some reason, fifthyear senior Dom Natale is ready and waiting. “I’ll be ready,” Natale said yesterday after practice. “I just prepare every day the same way, so if Tom can go or he can’t, it won’t be different for me … As a quarterback, you have to prepare for anything. If you go into it unprepared, then you’re worried about it the whole time and you’re not going to have a good game.” In case Savage is not ready, head coach Greg Schiano upped Natale’s reps and said that he’s confident in his ability. “He gets a few more plays,” Schiano said. Natale is hungr y for more playing time this season after the embarrassing start to his senior season against Cincinnati when, in his first and only start since high school, he threw three picks in a half before getting pulled for Savage. The former Hun School standout and Michigan State transfer began his shot at redemption in the Scarlet Knights’ 23-15 win over FIU. Natale completed a 49-yard pass to senior Tim Brown after Savage left the game with an injury. But Natale’s big play came in the first half when he ran the ball two yards for his first career touchdown.

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Mazhar settling in after summer standoff Ex-Knight tries to send Portugal to World Cup

BY KYLE FRANKO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

While his teammates worked hard in preparation for the season, Aly Mazhar waited — and waited — and pleaded for the chance MEN’S SOCCER to rejoin the Rutgers men’s soccer team. Mazhar, born in Cairo, Egypt, returned home to visit family over the summer but had issues leaving the country when the military wanted him for service. “It was really difficult [knowing I couldn’t join the team,]” Mazhar said. “I was trying to get permission any way possible to leave the country. It took me a lot of time to get that permission and once I got back [to Rutgers] I had to start fasting [for Ramadan], so I’ve been through a lot.” When Mazhar did get back to Piscataway for the start of his junior season he was 10 days late for camp and promptly picked up an ankle injur y that forced him out of the preseason and the first two games of the regular season. “I’ve been going through a lot of adversity,” Mazhar said. “I sprained my ankle and I had to be out two-to-four weeks but I worked really hard to get back, and I got back in like 10 days. I wasn’t supposed to play until the Santa Barbara game, but I got back early and played 80 minutes in the St. Peter’s game and then the Santa Barbara game, and now I’m feeling a lot better.” Despite missing those first 10 days, it wasn’t as if Mazhar did nothing all summer. He spent the majority of his time training with the Egypt U-20 National Team. “It helped me a lot,” Mazhar said about the experience on the international stage. “I’ve

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NICHOLAS BLEW

Junior defender Aly Mazhar was denied access back to the United States after playing for the Egyptian U-20 National Team. He arrived 10 days late for Rutgers training camp.

In Por tugal, football is a man’s game. Like most European countries, WOMEN’S WORLD CUP s t a d i u m s packed with wild soccer-crazed fans are part of Portugal’s modern identity. But, also like most of its European counterparts, Portugal’s passion for soccer does not cross genders. This decade, the Portuguese men’s national team grew into a perennial international contender while the women’s team floundered in mediocrity and, worse, near anonymity in the country. But former Rutgers women’s soccer standout Kimberly Brandao is out to change all of that. “If we [qualify for the World Cup], it will hopefully take the Por tuguese women’s game to another level,” Brandao said. “Hopefully it will help boost the women’s league in Por tugal,

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