Daily Targum 09/09/2009

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President vows bipartisanship on health care policy

BY HEATHER BROOKHART METRO EDITOR

President Barack Obama addressed a joint session of Congress last night, stating he hopes to build on the parts of the current health care system that work and fix what does not,

rather than tr y to create an entirely new system.

Obama said he is not the first president in American history to take on the task of battling with the country’s health care system, noting it’s been a centur y since Theodore Roosevelt first called for health care reform.

“Our collective failure to meet this challenge — year after year, decade after decade — has led us to a breaking point,” Obama said.

There are more than 30 million Americans who cannot get health coverage, with 14,000 citizens who lose their coverage every day, he said. One in every three Americans

goes without health care at some point in their lives.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Matthew Tuite said the government is already heavily involved in health care, and he would prefer if they worked slowly through the current system.

Obama announced his plan would meet three goals: provide more secu-

rity and stability to those who have health insurance, provide insurance to those who do not have it, and slow the growth of health care costs for families, businesses and the government.

“It’s a plan that incorporates ideas from senators and congress-

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Coalition calls for ward-based system in city

BY DENNIS COMELLA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Representatives from across New Jersey endorsed a ward-based system for the New Brunswick City Council yesterday on the steps of City Hall.

Advocates said a ward-based election process will promote democracy throughout the city. Under the current system, five council members are elected at-large.

“The ward-based system will provide an effective, accessible and accountable representation to all sectors in the decision making structure of our city,” said President of the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey Martin Perez, chairman of the Coalition for Democracy’s steering committee. “Our initiative creates a city

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Martin Perez, Coalition for Democracy steering committee chairman, speaks at yesterday’s press conference on the steps of City Hall. Perez, founder of the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, said several city communities, not just students, will benefit from a ward-based system.

Unknown relocation date frustrates NJ Books owner

BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT

UNIVERSITY A new group lounge in Records Hall on the College Avenue campus offers space for students to assemble with computers and other high-tech equipment.

The sign on the front of the New Jersey Books on 108 Somerset St. indi-

cating the store is moving used to provide specific dates.

But after NJ Books owner Ed Mueller was told he would be able to move into the new site at 39 Easton Ave.

from his current location — first in March, then April, then June, then September — he finally realized he was unsure when he will be moving and decided to no longer post moving dates.

True freshman Tom Savage has officially been named the starting quarterback for the Rutgers football team’s game against Howard.

BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

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Candidates agree on clean energ y plans despite economic woes

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The new 18,000-square-foot store — which Mueller said he invested more than half a million dollars into —

The Rutgers University Dance team performs yesterday at the Victoria Secret Pink Campus tour on Morrell Street on the College Avenue campus to promote the VS Pink clothing line for the University.

WESTFIELD — Independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett and representatives for the Democratic and Republican campaigns answered questions regarding renewable energy at a town hall meeting held Tuesday night at the Westfield Memorial Library.

While all agreed that renewable energy must not be slighted despite the economy, all acknowledged the difficulties of cost.

“There’s money focused that’s worth every dime based in leading us towards renewable as well as bringing us to a reduction of our very use of fossil fuels … It’s money that needs to be spent. We can’t afford not to,” said Assemblyman John

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New quiet lounge sports high-tech amenities

BY JUSTIN HOFFER

up to eight people. The conference room includes a large table with chairs surrounding it, as well Trying to do homework in a as a white dry-erase board that noisy college dormitor y can doubles as a projection screen. sometimes be distracting, and The room is soundproof to studying in a library with noth- ensure the students who are using ing but a wooden chair and a pile the facility are not bothered by of books is not ideal for all stu- outside noises and distractions. dents either.

“The room can be used for But the new Alcove Lounge in group computing efforts as well Records Hall on the College as individual studies,” Millet said.

Avenue campus aims to alleviate “We wanted to make it as homey these issues for students looking as possible so students would feel for a quiet yet interactive place to comfortable in there.” do homework.

Small University classes are also Constr uction utilizing the lounge. on the Alcove Professor Lounge, formerly Edward DeRosa, “It’s a great the Rutgers an assistant place to go and chill instructor in the Computer Store, came under way English departout and do late in the Spring ment’s writing pro2009 semester, at some homework.” gram, teaches the cost of “Scientific and TOM BURDEL $45,000, said Technical Writing” School of Engineering senior Planner Estimator and has recently for Facilities used the lounge.

Maintenance “It’s interestServices Pat Millet. ing,” DeRosa said. “I’m still not “The room itself only took six quite sure how I feel about using weeks to complete but the room it for classroom purposes but wasn’t up and running until later there’s no doubt it is comfortable this past summer because of and relaxed in here.” problems getting the systems up Students in the “Scientific and running,” he said. and Technical Writing” class The Alcove Lounge is came with their laptops while equipped with six Apple comput- DeRosa lectured and tried to ers with 20-inch monitors, six incorporate the features of the lounge chairs and a three-seat Alcove Lounge. couch. It also has three 40-inch “I tried to use the TVs and the flat-screen LCD televisions. computers a little bit more than I “It’s a great place to go and should have,” DeRosa said. “I just chill out and do some home- brought the class here to see work,” said Tom Burdel, a School what it was like as a learning enviof Engineering senior. “They ronment … it’s neat.” allow you to either use the TVs Some students have come for school stuff or if you just want through Records Hall to see the to kick back and watch a baseball new room but have yet to use it. game while you’re reading.”

“It seems really nice in there,” The lounge also has a small said Livingston College senior conference room in the back cor- Danny Laudati. “If I did homener that can be used for groups of work I would do it in there.”

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Students in “Scientific and Technical Writing” try out Records Hall’s Alcove Lounge on the College Avenue campus. Besides being equipped with several computers and LCD televisions, the room provides space for classes and groups.

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BOOKS: Owner blames U. for holding up store’s move continued from front is ready-to-go. He already put new fixtures in the store, new shelves, state-of-the-art computers, a security system and other equipment needed for the store to operate efficiently.

The store was ready to be moved to a new location in 2007 so that construction of New Brunswick Development Corporation’s Gateway project — which will be located on Somerset Street and Easton Avenue — can begin, University Spokesman E.J. Miranda said.

“Rutgers offered the Easton Avenue property to help resolve the dispute between the city, DEVCO and New Jersey Books and help move the Gateway project forward,” Miranda said.

But Thom Ammirato, an eminent domain activist assisting Mueller with the property condemnation, said he is unsure whether the issue is a financial one, but he questions whether the University is the one having issues with financing the project.

“I think the key question here is what is Rutgers’ financial commitment to the Gateway project,” he said.

Mueller said New Brunswick Mayor Jim Cahill and DEVCO have been trying very hard to get him into his new store.

“They seemed pretty sincere,” he said. “They called me, kept in contact with me — they really did everything they could. It seems that Rutgers is the hold up.”

Mueller said he was looking forward to moving into the new store for almost a year now.

Ammirato said the University is not informing him and Mueller about anything.

U NIVERSITY “Rutgers is holding all the cards in their hands and they’re not letting us know what is going on,” he said.

But Miranda said the University fully intends and will

“I think the key question here is what is Rutgers’ financial commitment to the Gateway project.”

THOM AMMIRATO Eminent domain activist

be happy to sign any necessary documents that will complete the move of NJ Books from Somerset Street to Easton Avenue, as soon as DEVCO meets the necessary obligations.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M “Rutgers has a responsibility to its students, faculty, governing boards and the citizens of New Jersey to prudently manage its resources and we cannot move forward with the transaction until the mutually agreed upon terms are met,” he said.

Those terms required DEVCO to secure financing for the Gateway, obtain the necessary development approvals to construct the Gateway and to transfer property at the Gateway over to the University, at the same time that the University sold 39 Easton Ave. to DEVCO, he said.

“DEVCO agreed to those terms, but has not yet completed them,” Miranda said.

DEVCO President Christopher Paladino said the delay of the moving process is due to a number of housekeeping items that must be completed in agreements between the University and DEVCO.

“We fully anticipate that [NJ Books] will be up and running in anticipation of the second semester,” Paladino said.

The ready look of the new building and the fact that NJ Books is still working at their present location is confusing University students.

“I thought they were moving last semester and then I heard they were moving this semester,” School of Environmental of Biological Sciences junior Shakira Williams said.

She said she is confused about whether or not the store will ever move to their new location and that she was surprised to see the Somerset Street location still in use.

“I thought they would have moved in by now,” she said. “[The new store] looks ready and definitely better because it’s a lot bigger. NJ Books is always so crowded because it’s so small.”

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New Jersey Books owner Ed Mueller invested more than half a million dollars in the new store location at 39 Easton Ave. but has not relocated from his 108 Somerset St. location. Mueller thinks the University is holding up the move, but the University said they are eager for the bookstore move. DEVCO President Chris Palladino said he anticipates the relocation will be final for the spring semester.

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Students inherit helpful hints for career success

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Maurice Ingram, right, and Slyvia Cordero, left, along with four other panel members provide students with the keys to workforce accomplishment.

BY MICKEY HENNESSEY STAFF WRITER

University first-year students learned ‘sur vival’ skills at Tuesday night’s “Survival of the Fittest” event at the Douglass Student Center.

The event was the brainchild of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc., who engineered the event with a goal of aiding minority first-year students with key insights for success, said sorority President and Livingston College senior Sheila Reynoso.

“This program is perfect because it showcases people with real-life experiences and acts as a helping hand. Even for myself as a graduating senior, the program was beneficial,” said Emeka Ezidiegwu, a Rutgers College senior.

The main feature of the night was a Q&A panel, whose speakers offered tidbits of knowledge and advice to the crowd.

The panel included an array of current students as well as alumni, representing different majors, careers paths and stories of their years at the University.

Some offered personal experiences and anecdotes.

Rutgers College senior Travis C. Graham Jones discussed his experience with the School of Ar ts and Sciences Educational Opportunity Fund Program in detail.

Low-income New Jersey residents with potential and evidence of academic and/or creative promise, but lacking adequate educational and financial resources for college are offered financial and academic assistance through the EOF Program, according to its Web site.

“Verily, EOF was a blessing and without it, I wouldn’t be here at Rutgers. It was socially phenomenal and was an academic

master key — opening up [a] myriad [of] doors that I would not have known even existed,” Graham Jones said. “It taught me how to get back-up, even in adversity, and use my struggles as fuel to keep me going through this marathon.”

The EOF Program offers the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program as a means for students to work toward doctoral degrees, according to the Web site. “[The McNair Scholarship Program wants] to see more minorities going into graduate programs,” said Karina F. Martinez, a University graduate student.

The panel touched on many other topics, such as academic coaching at the Rutgers Learning Centers and the importance of focusing in one’s first collegiate years, where one should “study smart” as opposed to “studying hard,” said Maurice Ingram, a Rutgers alumnus and current Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology student.

It is important for students to work toward a successful career through internships, co-ops, résumé building and strengthening grade point averages, said Sylvia Cordero, a Career Services representative.

The program was well received and plans to make the event annual are already in the works, Reynoso said.

The organization enlisted the help of several co-sponsors, including Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the Black Student Union and Career Services.

“A lot of people didn’t really know the assets and resources we have at Rutgers,” said Emmanuel Maduakolam, BSU president and a Rutgers College senior. “But we brought it to them today.”

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Athletics sparks ‘win-win’ agreement with Verizon FiOS channels

BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

The shoot-outs and shutouts of University men’s and women’s soccer are being piped onto Verizon cable subscribers’ screens this fall.

The University reached an agreement in June with Verizon where the telecommunications giant will broadcast a number of University sporting events on its new local station FiOS1 New Jersey that launched in late June to highlight local sports.

The agreement, which will feature coverage for women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, and men’s and women’s lacrosse, benefits the University and the athletics department, said Assistant Athletic Director for Communications Jason Baum, who helped bring the agreement into fruition.

HEALTH: Plan calls for preventative care coverage continued from front men, from Democrats and Republicans — and yes, from some of my opponents in both the primary and general election,” Obama said.

Tuite said he is wary of the plan to make health care available to all.

“You’re dealing with potentially trillions of dollars,” Tuite said.

“I think reform is definitely needed, but I’m just not sure that they’re getting to the core issues.”

Obama stressed those who have health insurance through their jobs, Medicare, Medicaid, or the U.S. Depar tment of

“It is a great situation for Rutgers as we have another way to promote our teams on television,” Baum said. “Obviously, the increased exposure for the Olympic sports is one of the key elements of the deal, along with live coverage of our nationally-ranked women’s basketball program.”

Athletic Director Tim Pernetti said the agreement is a win-win situation for the University and for Verizon.

“It’ll give them some good programming to help grow their viewership in the state and gives us a lot of exposure for a lot of our sports that we didn’t have before,” Pernetti said.

Verizon spokesman Rich Young championed the partnership.

“We think it’s an exciting partnership and a great opportunity for both Verizon and Rutgers to

show sports that aren’t traditionally shown on television,” Young said. “It’s mainly sports other than football. We do have plans to broadcast three women’s basketball games. Coming up we’ll look at lacrosse, water polo and some other sports.”

Pernetti said he was excited to hear about the deal due to his past work with CSTV, a college cable network that produced and televised Olympic sports.

“There’s so many college sports events that never see the light of day on television, and I think now that there are more distributors out there, and telecom companies are getting in the distribution business, [which] gives us the ability to partner with these people who really come in,” Pernetti said.

The coverage brings attention to some of the athletic depart-

ment’s less-exposed sports programs, he said.

“They’re offering us exposure for all sports programs — a lot of them that would never get it otherwise — [and] are willing to take the risk on the production to produce these games; for us, it’s a win all around,” he said.

The channel is delivered to Verizon fiber-optic cable television subscribers via fiber network, Young said. It will only be available to Verizon cable customers.

“New Jerseyans like to see their hometown teams — whether it is high school or college — on TV, and this is an opportunity for them to do that,” Young said.

Princeton, Hofstra and Georgetown are participating in bringing collegiate sports programming to Long Island, New Jersey and the metropolitan

Washington, D.C. area through the FiOS TV network, according to a Verizon press release.

The first University appearance on FiOS1 New Jersey broadcasted Sunday when men’s soccer played St. Peter’s University, Young said.

FiOS1 New Jersey will broadcast the University women’s soccer matches with Villanova on Sept. 27, Notre Dame on Oct. 9 and Syracuse on Oct. 15. The channel will also broadcast the University men’s soccer match Oct. 2 with Syracuse.

School of Arts and Sciences firstyear student Aimee Chotikul said the coverage exciting, especially since she will be a goalie for the women’s lacrosse team in the spring.

“A lot of times we don’t get as much TV time as a lot of the other sports do, so it will be good that more people can see it,” Chotikul said. “It’s a really good idea.”

Veterans’ Affairs would not be required to change the coverage they have. Under his plan, it will also be against the law for insurance companies to deny coverage because of a pre-existing condition.

Insurance companies also cannot drop coverage when an individual becomes sick, he said. A limit will be placed on how much a person can be charged for outof-pocket expenses.

President of the University’s Pharmacy Governing Council Bo Wang said expanding coverage to the uninsured is a good idea because it allows for more people to af ford preventative care, hindering the need for expensive hospital visits and radical treatments.

“When uninsured people check into the emergency room, the hospitals have to absorb thousands and thousands of dollars which these people never pay, and those costs gets passed down to people like us who are insured,” said Wang, a fifth-year Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy student.

Wang is unsure if Obama will be able to expand coverage without increasing the deficit.

“He talks about how he could get the money by cutting out the inefficiencies in the health care system, but I have my doubts if [they] can find that many inefficiencies in the system,” he said.

University alumna Lipi Lakhani said she wishes Obama’s plan was available earlier.

“It’s very beneficial for people who cannot afford it,” she said.

The president also ensured health coverage for Americans who lose or change their jobs, or if they start up their own small business. He spoke of creating a new insurance exchange where individuals and small businesses can shop for health insurance at competitive prices.

Obama addressed critics and the partisan debate surrounding the topic of health care reform in recent months, noting his plan will not offer coverage to those who are in the country illegally.

“I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it’s better politics to kill this plan than improve it,” he said.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Samella Reed said she is against Obama’s plan.

“I think it’s ridiculous that we’re expected to take care of ever yone else, of people who don’t work, that we have to provide health care for them,” she said. “I think it’s our own responsibility as human beings to make money and pay for it ourselves, and I feel like it’s going to cause us more actual debt than anything.”

Tuite said he thinks the president’s plan is a noble, but unpractical goal.

“When it comes to putting the plan to practice, is it going to work out? It’s hard to say,” Tuite said.

— Mary Diduch contributed to this article

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Representatives seek transparency in council

BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

The Douglass Governing Council convenes Tuesday, with plans to continue empowering and enlightening women in the Douglass Residential College and University community.

Council President Jennifer Kanyamibwa said she would like to foster a better community and be more efficient this academic year.

“We want to get our name out there, we want people to feel that we are approachable and we also want people to come to our meetings,” Kanyamibwa said. “We want people to know that Douglass is here, Douglass is important and that Douglass women are making a difference every day.”

Kanyamibwa, a Douglass College senior, said the council’s role at Douglass is to highlight what the college stands for: women’s empowerment and leadership.

It is important for the council not to be seen as students who run the organization as a business, but as students who actually care, Kanyamibwa said.

“We’re not going to wait for people to come to us, we’re going to come to them,” she said.

University Senator Kyrie Graziosi said the council hopes to promote their presence on campus.

“We want to create more events that are run by the DGC, with help from co-sponsors, to raise awareness of the DGC and Douglass in general,” Graziosi said. “Last year we only had a few DGC-specific events and we’re hoping to boost those numbers to get more people involved.”

Graziosi, a Douglass Residential College sophomore, said the council is also looking to interact with constituent populations more often.

“Rutgers student government gets a bad rap sometimes as being sort of this small elitist group,” she said. “We’re really pushing to get input from the student body.”

External Vice President Kate Barbour, a Douglass College senior, said the council changed

Douglass Governing Council the format of office hours to be more accessible.

“We feel that it will be much more effective if we just sat for our office hours in the Douglass Café with our constituency banner out so that people can approach us and we can focus on making student government more transparent,” she said.

The DGC will present the documentary “Girls Like Us,” which delves into the effects class, racism, sexism and violence have on young girls on Sept. 28 from 8 to10 p.m.

Kanyamibwa said a few other events have already been scheduled.

“On Oct. 28, we have three assemblywomen coming to speak to the Douglass community and the Rutgers community as a whole about what it means to be a woman involved in politics,” she said. “We are planning more events in the springtime, for Women’s Histor y Month and other programs highlighting women speakers in the field of medicine, business and politics.”

Kanyamiba said the council hopes to get a celebrity who is focused on women’s leadership to come to the college.

Students discussed possible choices for the guest speaker and performer, including M.I.A., Beyonce and Michelle Obama.

The council meets on Tuesdays at the Douglass Student Center in Trayes Hall; meetings are open to the general public.

Douglass Residential College originally began as the New Jersey College for Women and opened its doors in 1918. In 1955, NJC became Douglass College.

After the consolidation of the University’s colleges in 2007, Douglass College became Douglass Residential College — within the School of Arts and Sciences — which preserved an all-women campus and femaleoriented programs.

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WOES: Government subsidies may aid energy plans continued from front McKeon, sent to represent the Democratic gubernatorial campaign of Gov. Jon S. Corzine.

Atlantic County Utilities Authority President Rick Dovey, speaking on behalf of Republican candidate Chris Christie, agreed, and said the initial costs of any new plans are always high.

“The costs are coming down for renewables and will be competitive with the costs of fossil fuels within several short years,” he said.

Government subsidies could make these plans possible, Dovey said.

These high costs need to be heavily weighed and considered, as they may not outweigh the benefits of clean energy, Daggett said.

“I do believe that there is a cost, and it definitely costs more … for the amounts of energy you have to generate energy to continue to serve the people in this region,” he said.

But he still thinks renewable energy is a strong and important investment for the future.

The expensive upfront capital costs versus renewable energy’s long-term benefits is one of the state’s biggest issues on the topic, said Paul Falkowski, director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, a University group that leads research on renewable energy and environmental conservation.

“Solar energy at the present time is expensive and it pays back itself … in about seven years,” he said.

While wind power would work well in NJ when there are strong winds during the fall, winter and spring seasons, it is not feasible to use now, as it is too expensive, Falkowski said.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Jurij Hirniak said renewable energy sources are a good

investment, but the effect on the budget must be determined. “[If] it’s only going to hurt us a little bit [economically], then sure, go for it, full steam ahead, because it would be better in the long run,” he said. “But I think if it’s going to hurt the state a lot, then we’ll get screwed too as a school. We’ll get our budget cut.”

While solar, wind and nuclear power — which generates about half the state’s energy — are big issues this election regarding the environment, Falkowski said a new source of energy lies in carbon capture and storage.

With this, coal-fired power plants would be built to not emit a lot of carbon dioxide.

“But if it works, we would have sustainable fuel for many years … there’s nothing evil about fossil fuels except when they burn, they emit carbon dioxide,” Falkowski said.

These plants would reduce or remove this problem, he said.

The potential construction of one of these billion dollar plants in Linden, NJ was debated at the town hall meeting.

Daggett is opposed to the construction of this plant.

“I am not one who’s convinced that we can do a carbon sequestration plant in Linden … the technology has not been fully tested, let’s put it that way,” he said.

McKeon said Corzine has not committed either way, as the plan is under revisement and study.

“The expansion of fossil fuels, vis á vie the goals that he set, vis á vie the money and the resources that was put behind in meeting and achieving those goals on renewables are in opposite to opening another coal plan,” he said.

McKeon said it is counterintuitive to bring the plant to a heavily populated area.

Dovey said at the time of the meeting, the Christie campaign did not have a position on the issue.

U NIVERSITY But while the campaigns addressed many of citizens’ specific regional concerns, one of the major goals of the meeting was to determine the importance of renewable energy to the potential governors.

McKeon emphasized Corzine’s past accomplishments and future goals.

“Global Warming Response Act: [We’re] the third state in the entire nation to set not only goals for a reduction of CO2 but to make it a law,” he said.

With the Energy Master Plan, Corzine plans to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent by 2020, mostly through the increased use of wind and solar power.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M Falkowski, who works closely with the Corzine administration, thinks the governor’s goals are obtainable.

“It’s realistic if the major power companies buy into it,” Falkowski said. “The number one mechanism to do this is to increase the price of electricity and at the same time provide an incentive to reduce the consumption.”

Dovey said Christie differs from the other candidates in his acknowledgement of the immediacy of the issue.

“There has been a lot of progress. What I got from Chris Christie is a sense of immediacy,” he said. “The time is now. The goals have been set, let’s give credit where credit is due … but we

must now make decisions to move forward on specific projects.”

Dovey said clean energy tops Christie’s gubernatorial initiatives.

Daggett, a former head of the Department of Environmental Protection, credits Corzine’s efforts at increasing renewable energy use but feels they would not be achieved if the parties do not work together.

“I believe strongly in the idea in hearing out all sides of an issue before taking a decision. You’ve got to work harder, you’ve got to work with the state day and night to bring consensus, to bring unanimity on the solutions on the issues that face us,” he said. “It’s time to stop that nonsense and focus on what’s right for New Jersey.”

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Independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett speaks Tuesday night at a town hall meeting in Westfield. Daggett said renewable energy benefits in New Jersey outweigh the costs of putting the plans into action.

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CITY: New group fears ward system will hurt city continued from front council integrated by six wardelected representatives and three at-large elected members.”

The group pushing for the change is Empower Our Neighborhoods, which submitted a petition to change the city’s form of government.

Unite New Brunswick, a new group that has recently shown up on the radar, submitted a separate proposal to change the system from its current five at-largeelected members to seven atlarge-elected members.

UNB fears a ward system will pull the city apart and give less individual representation to each ward, because each ward representative will vote its own way and give less regard to the city as a whole.

EON members disagree.

“We not only love New Br unswick because we love our part of it. We love all of it,” said Charlie Kratovil, EON press secretar y.

UNB supporters also worry the large University population will not be properly represented in a ward-based system, because the city will be divided into sections, as opposed to an at-large City Council.

“I’ve lived in other places … where wards have broken up … the city,” said Glenn Fleming, a spokesman for UNB. “Franklin

Township has its urban section, but it’s not an urban center like New Brunswick.”

Others opposing wards said the city is fine, with low crime rates, low taxes and low unemployment rate under the current system.

“Ever y conceivable constituency in the city benefits from a ward system,” said Mike Shanahan, a Middlesex County

“Every conceivable constituency in the city benefits from a ward system.”

MIKE SHANAHAN Rutgers College senior

democratic committee member and Rutgers College senior.

“From the student aspect, we would be able to have a city councilperson for the first time in city history. By splitting the city up into wards, you get representation for each neighborhood, but right now the 6th Ward is almost completely students and they haven’t had a voice in the city.”

Rutgers College senior Steven Perez, a Piscataway resident and commuter, said a wardbased system would offer students benefits.

“Because students are such a large population in the 6th Ward where College Avenue and Easton Avenue are, a ward sys-

tem would allow student issues like tenant rights to come to light,” Perez said.

New Brunswick Zoning Board of Adjustment Jerr y Mercado dismissed what he called efforts by the city government to paint organizations promoting the ward-based system as student movements.

“This is not a student movement; this is a community movement that includes students,” Mercado said.

EON cites several New Jersey cities where a ward system has been implemented successfully, including Franklin Township, which Money Magazine voted as the fifth best place to live in America in 2008, and Piscataway, which ranked at number 23rd on the list.

UNB supporters said New Brunswick cannot be compared to less urban cities such as Franklin Township, especially since it uses a 5-4 ratio of ward/at-large elected council members, not a 6-3 ratio as EON proposes.

Trenton Councilman-atLarge Manuel Segura said a ward-system benefited his work in Trenton.

“For a councilperson-at-large, it’s more effective when you have a representative from the different wards,” Segura said.

Segura likened a ward representative to a police officer who lives in the same area he patrols.

“If a police officer lives in the community,” Segura said. “It’s much better taken care of.”

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very year students seem to voice the same complaints.

Parking, the buses and registering for classes are always at the forefront of arguments about life at the University. Textbooks have also continuously been a problem for students because of their high cost and the ridiculous lengths students must go through to obtain them. The lines at the bookstores are always crazy, especially with the student population growing larger every year. Students also may have to rush back and forth from bookstores on different campuses in search of certain books that may only be offered in the University bookstores or at the Student Co-Op on Douglass campus.

Returning unneeded books is a hassle because you have a limited time to get them back before you only get the full buy back price for them.

Then there is good old New Jersey Books, which was supposed to be moved into a bigger location to fit the hundreds of students going there for a discounted rate on the already overpriced books, but now it is not moving until next semester. Books are a necessary tool for learning here at the University, but it seems like purchasing books are a bigger headache then they are worth.

In an effort to make buying books a little easier for students, the University established the RU Book Advance program. The program is an additional service to those students who get financial aid. This allows students who get a refund check and have $500 go directly to the University bookstores so there is no need to wait for the refund check to purchase their books. The 4,600 students who are eligible for this program are now able to buy their books earlier in the semester.

The program lasts until the end of the add/drop period, and whatever money is not used will be issued back to the student. Students are able to opt in or out of the program online through their term bill at the start of each semester.

The RU Book Advance program seems like a noble idea, and it could make students feel relieved about not having to wait to buy their books. First-year students who have no experience with the bookstores may be the most susceptible to believing that this program will actually help students out. In reality — and what the University fails to realize — is students could take that $500 and buy their books elsewhere, and still have money left over to purchase school supplies and any other bills they may have. The books students are required to purchase are ridiculously priced as it is. Depending on the class or major a student is buying books for a single book can be priced for more than $200. That is one book for one class that may have more required reading. Students are also required to purchase books even when they end up reading only one or two chapters which is a waste of money. In an age where information is free flowing on the Internet and through various other media, the required information should be priced lower.

Financial aid helps to a certain degree, but not everyone gets a refund check, and a lot of students do not have parental support with the bills they accrue through college.

Many professors at the University feel the students’ pain and tr y their best to keep reusing old editions or posting reading online Instead of making an entire class purchase books through sites like Sakai and Rutgers Online. This should be done as much as possible. Although it can be a tedious task tr ying to read ever ything on the computer, students have the option to print readings out or have instant accesses to them, all free of charge.

This would be especially helpful when professors are thinking of making their class purchase a book for a mere one or two chapters. We have the technology, and it should be utilized.

Professors need to realize that buying books is one of the most dreadful tasks for students because of the high cost, and many put of f buying books because they need to save money if they do not get a refund check or have the cash to purchase them at the star t of the semester. Doing as much as they can to keep the price down definitely helps students out.

Students have to be more aware of where their money is going.

They should look at their term bill closely and opt out of this program. It was created with good intentions, but all it is does is save students from having to wait until their refund checks come through. This helps students who prefer buying books from the overpriced bookstore. Ever y student should explore their options and use that $500 to order their books through online sites like Amazon and Half.com. Hundreds of dollars can be saved through ordering books online, even with the cost of shipping and handling.

If online buying is not for you, then ask around to other students.

See if you can purchase your books from friends or people that have taken these classes before. These options are much less stressful than going through the bookstore.

Awareness must be raised about alternative ways to buy books, and students should pay more attention to where their money is going. The price of books cannot be placed on the University — and the program was an attempt to help — but more needs to be done to lower the price of books so it does not feel like you have to buy your way to good grades.

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“[The new store] looks ready and definitely better because it’s a lot bigger. NJ Books is always so crowded because it’s so small.”

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reg Schiano has with the occasional 10-win coached Rutgers season. Maybe a conferfootball since Dec. 1, ence title will be good 2000. He took on a program enough for him. But the that was driven into the MATTHEW TORINO odds are slim and one has ground by Terry Shea. One to wonder just how long of the laughingstocks of the countr y, the Schiano will be able to take it. The team just does University did not seem like it would ever reach its not seem to be improving. potential — despite the fact that it lay in one of the If he ever goes 3-9 or something similar and does most fertile recruiting zones in the country and not bring the team back to immediate contention for has even produced number one recruits Chris conference titles, the idea that Schiano is one of the Simms and Greg Olsen. Even with a huge state best coaches in all the nation will be nothing but a university in their backyard, they committed to myth. A myth. If he ever wants to leave and become Texas and Notre Dame (before transferring to the head coach of a national powerhouse, this may Miami). While Schiano has not been able to keep be his last shot. Head coaching a team that is conall the top recruits in state such as Will Hill sistently inconsistent is not the way to cement one’s (Florida), Brian Cushing (Southern California) reputation as a great coach. and Brian Toal (Boston College), keeping players If Schiano stays here, he’ll be remembered like Anthony Davis and Kenny Britt was a great fondly at the University, but forgotten to everyone accomplishment. But Schiano has to know that he but this relatively small fan base. Is that the legacannot build a figurative fence around New Jersey, cy anyone wants to leave — to be forgotten? and he is being pushed out of Florida by Urban Especially since he could have taken the job at Meyer and Randy Shannon.

Michigan that eventually went to This brings me to my point: former West Virginia coach Rich “He’ll forever be treated Rodriguez. There are not going Greg Schiano has reached his Rutgers apex. To be more specifas a god here, bringing a to be many prestigious proic, he reached it in 2006. grams like that opening up any program from death’s Achieving a top 15 ranking and time soon. Notre Dame will go having the best season in Rutgers Urban Meyer, not Schiano. door to a contender in the after football histor y won him the But Schiano’s old haunt, Miami, National Coach of the Year and is on the rise thanks to excellent Big East conference.” made him one of the rising stars recruiting by Randy Shannon, in college coaching. He declined which leaves only one place for overtures from Miami following the ousting of Schiano: Penn State.

Larr y Coker because he was “ver y happy at Current Penn State head coach Joe Paterno Rutgers.” And why shouldn’t he have been? They cannot keep coaching forever and will eventually were within a triple OT game of going to the Bowl need a successor. Penn State Defensive Championship Series. It was only up from there.

Coordinator Tom Bradley is the reported heir to Except it wasn’t. Slip-ups in the next two season Paterno’s throne, but Schiano needs to take that lead to back-to-back 7-5 regular seasons even if they job if he’s offered it. He needs to take any huge job did win their bowl games both years. And now one offer that is thrown his way. He would have more has to wonder, with a freshman quarterback behind of a brand to sell, as well as a more areas to recruit center and a defense that was shredded by Cincy’s that were off limits to the University. Schiano, able returning star QB Tony Pike, how long before this to build a powerhouse program, could be rememteam slips up for more than just a few games and bered as one of the great coaches in college histostumbles to something like a 3-9 season? That is a ry for his versatility in building up one program very real possibility in the near future if this team and maintaining one he did not create. even looks related to the one that showed up on While I am a Rutgers football fan, I am also a Labor Day that it could happen.

Greg Schiano fan; I hope he does what is best for And that is when the bloom will officially be off him, not just for the football program he created. So the Greg Schiano rose. He’ll forever be treated as a Schiano — take the first big job that’s offered to you god here, bringing a program from death’s door to because I don’t know if you can win national titles at a contender in the Big East conference. But is that the University. good enough for Greg Schiano or — more specifically — his ego? Human nature will not allow him Matthew Torino is a School of Arts and Sciences to be content with going 7-5, 8-4, 6-6 most years junior majoring in political science.

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s a college student, I am very aware of all of the different ways people can now communicate. But being a normally functioning, social human being I am also aware of all the ways that people cannot communicate anymore. In a time when you can get in touch with anyone at anytime, we as a generation seem to be getting worse at talking to each other. I know that I can e-mail, text, instant message or Facebook my friends at anytime and we can have a complete “conversation,” but if I decided to pick up the phone to call them it would be an awkward five minutes that they will avoid at any cost. How did we get to this point?

We have become a society based so heavily on convenience that we have lost the skills to interact with one another.

When I order food to be picked up or

delivered to my house I call the restaurant and place my order. Yet I know many people who will not order from a restaurant if they have to pick up the phone and talk to someone. I also have friends that cannot go up to a professor and ask a question. They wait until they get home and e-mail them. Don’t bother calling your close friend on their birthday, it might be a little inconvenient to interrupt your busy day of Internet surfing — just Facebook them. Are you having a fight with your significant other? Once again, don’t bother picking up the phone to call them and actually speak to one

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another, just keep texting them so you can infer their tone and probably make the stupid fight your having about your ANNA NORCIA Facebook page even worse. Have you ever been looking for a job or even tried to volunteer and you try to e-mail everyone you know, and you keep e-mailing them over and over and you don’t get a response? Did you ever think that maybe someone else went in person and made a good impression so they got the job instead of you?

Yes, all of these technologies that we have are wonderful and even I would be lost without them, but we need to see past

them and make an effort to interact with one another. I don’t understand how being able to have a face-to-face conversation is a rare and valued trait; it used to be required to be socially active at all. So the next time you go to text your buddy to see what he’s up to, why don’t you try picking up the phone? If you have a question, don’t Google it — go and ask someone. Have serious conversations face to face and don’t be afraid to order your dinner by talking to someone. Don’t let the technology of this era take away your ability to communicate.

Anna Norcia is a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior majoring in nutritional sciences.

Her column, “Just the Facts,” runs on alternate Mondays.

Wards provide students with voice in city government Letter MIKE SHANAHAN

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n Tuesday, Kyle Kirkpatrick, of a new organization known as “Unite New Brunswick,” which in reality is nothing more than a shill for the city administration, wrote in this paper that the current City Council structure has led to a new era of improvement and safety for New Brunswick residents and University students. He gives examples that would be laughed off by most readers. Kirkpatrick’s evidence is flimsy at best, and grossly misrepresents the reality of New Brunswick life. For exam-

ple, Kirkpatrick claims that “students can now walk safely from Cook to College Avenue and back without thinking twice.”

And yet, incoming freshmen are routinely warned against setting foot off campus alone. I would argue that improvements to safety in our neighborhoods have occurred despite the actions taken by the City Council over the last decade. The downtown “cleanup” seen since the early ’90s has not come without a cost to New Brunswick’s sense of community. The current administration has done a great job kicking people out of their homes to make way for upscale condominium developers. The author’s presumption that the

City Council deserves credit for the Route 18 expansion (a state highway) is laughable.

I would also like to remind the author that it was the Community Empowerment Project that fought for years to force rent control through. It was in 2002 that Mayor Jim Cahill, his brother and his cousin admitted to illegally raising rents beyond legal limits.

Cahill and his partnership were forced to pay more than $3,000 to 14 tenants in the city.

The option that the author has proposed, a seven member at-large council, does nothing to ensure the rights of minorities in our city. A vote of 50 percent plus one would still elect all seven

members. Translation: the student community would still see its voice drowned out by the rest of the city. We would just continue to pay parking fines and noise violations and we would have no one on the council responsible to us. Unite New Brunswick’s sole purpose in putting this question on the ballot is to confuse voters.

If the five member at-large system has helped the city to “flourish” why would Unite New Brunswick and its supporters want to change the system. The truth is the current system is flawed. A ward system would give the student minority – centered in the sixth ward — a city councilperson for the first time in city history.

The author’s distortions even include his false history of the Empower Our Neighborhoods organization. EON is and always has been for creating a hybrid system of six seats by wards and three seats at large.

The author was right about one thing. This vote is about representation. The ward system is proven to provide minority groups a voice — be it ethnic minorities or students. When a full quarter of the city population can receive zero representation on City Council something needs to change.

Mike Shanahan is a Rutgers College senior, a member of EON and volunteer coordinator for the Yes for Wards campaign.

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BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON SENIOR WRITER

The Rutgers women’s basketball schedule for the 2009-10 season was released yesterday WOMEN’S BASKETBALL a f t e r n o o n , unveiling a season in which the Scarlet Knights face off against 14 NCAA tournament qualifiers and nine NIT participants.

The season kicks of f with a home contest against Stanford on Nov. 15 at the Louis Brown Athletic Center and is highlighted by a matchup against Tennessee on Dec. 13 at the Maggie Dixon Classic in New York.

The team will face its first Big East test in its first game of 2010 when the DePaul Blue Demons travel to the RAC. Rutgers will also play host to conference foes Cincinnati, Marquette, Notre Dame, Seton Hall, Syracuse, St. John’s and Louisville this season.

Regular season play comes to a close on March 1, when the Knights take on the Cardinals in Piscataway.

In addition to the games against Stanford and Tennessee, the team’s out-of-conference schedule is marked by matchups against Texas, George Washington and Princeton.

The team will also square off against Florida at home on Dec. 7 as part of the annual Jimmy V. Classic.

In a shake up from previous seasons, RU will not be playing a home and home series with conference rival Connecticut.

Instead, the team will be playing a home and home with Syracuse.

The Knights will be playing the Huskies only once during the regular season on Jan. 26 in Storrs.

The team got off to a rough start last season but rallied to finish with a 21-13 overall record and were 8-7 in Big East play.

The Knights made it to the Sweet 16 for the fourth time in five seasons before falling to Purdue.

Rutgers will be seeking to replace depar ted star Epiphanny Prince, who led the team with 19.5 points per game.

Prince left the program a year early to pursue a professional career in Europe.

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Senior defender Jenifer Anzivino is one-fourth of a back line that has allowed only one goal this season.

“We prepare the team with a strong independent schedule,” Crooks said. “We try to get a good mix of teams. But these stronger teams are teams that we need to be able to play.

And it’s all about preparation and not only knowing what our opponent can do and their tendencies but how we get better each day and how we prepare ourselves.”

Though Crooks saw the significant improvement in his team’s play against Penn State continue this week in training, he is seeing to it that the team’s newfound aggressiveness continues this weekend in Arizona.

“The mentality against Penn State was better from start to

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finish,” Crooks said. “The atmosphere was better and it was just a different level. We played at a different level than we had in any of the previous four games. And that’s the level we need to maintain and improve on in order to achieve our goals.”

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“We definitely won the air game quite well in the midfield,” said junior for ward Karla Schacher. “We also pressured them really well in the back. So we’re really looking to come out of this weekend with two [wins]. We just need to work hard, communicate with each other and just take another step for ward.”

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Gordonov notices pace improvement

BY MATT SUGAM STAFF WRITER

Following a summer of individual training, the Rutgers men’s c r o s s MEN’S XC countr y t e a m arrived to practice Sept. 1 significantly stronger and faster.

The main reason for that is not a new training regiment — just simply experience.

“They came in much more prepared then they have in the past just because they’re older and stronger,” said head coach Mike Mulqueen. “We started our workouts at a much faster tempo than we did in the past because they did more mileage over the summer and they can handle a harder workload now.”

One of the team’s top runners, senior Simon Gordonov, has noticed the improved shape the team is in coming into the year.

“The guys are in really good shape,” Gordonov said. “It seems like everyone had a good summer of training and we’re ready to roll.”

The team boasts seven upperclassmen, which means a bulk of the team is now used to the grueling distances it has to run every week.

“They have a lot more miles in their legs now,” Mulqueen said. “When they first came in they could handle 50 or 60 miles [a week] and now they can han-

dle 75 or 80 miles [a week] and some guys can go 80 to 90 miles [a week].”

And that means the team’s mile pace during practice is significantly faster.

“Last year we started with a 5:20 pace and now we’re starting with a 5:05, 5:10 pace just because they’re older and stronger so they can handle it better,” Mulqueen said.

While the team has high expectations and looks to build off of last year, Mulqueen looks at the Fordham Fiasco and Follies in the Bronx, N.Y. Saturday as more of a warm-up for the season ahead.

The meet’s real significance comes from the fact that the team will be racing on the course three more times this season — at the Iona College Meet of Champions, the Metropolitan Championships and the IC4A Championships.

With that, the team’s main goal is to get to know the new terrain. “[We want to] get a feel for the course,” Gordonov said. “There’s actually been construction there so there’s going to be a bit of a change of what we’re used to so we’re trying to just feel out the new course see how the layout is.”

Aside from that, the plan for this Saturday is a simple one.

“We just want to run together as a pack and just see what kind of shape we’re in,” Mulqueen said. “We’ll get a good idea after this weekend of where we stand and we’ll go from there.”

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SAVAGE: Quarterback given starting nod vs. Howard continued from back Between potential struggles and injuries, Natale’s college career is not necessarily going to be summed up with a handful of snaps against Connecticut last season and one half against Cincinnati.

“I just have to prepare,” Natale said. “Anything could happen and you just have to be ready.”

After his three interception performance against Cincinnati

however, no one has been harder on Natale than Natale himself.

“I kind of expected it. I failed to execute. That’s all on me. I just have to go out there and keep working,” he said. “I just have to keep going really. I mean, it’s not easy, but at the same time I have to help [Tom] out. We’re all on the same team here.”

With the ball now officially in Savage’s court, the Cardinal O’Hara (Springfield, Pa.) product has the luxur y of turning to two senior quar terbacks for pointers, something that he plans to take advantage of ever y day.

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Quarterback Tom Savage (7) worked his way up to No. 2 on the depth chart throughout summer training camp as a true freshman.

“He’s helping me out a lot,” Savage said of Natale. “He just tells me the ins and outs of the program, the ins and outs of the defense. He’s seen a lot more defense than I have so he definitely helps me out a lot.”

Savage did manage to pass for 135 yards and a touchdown in his first college game, but he also struggled at times. He threw eight incompletions, got sacked three times after holding the ball for too long and threw one ball away in the end zone that resulted in an intentional grounding call for a safety.

In Savage’s own words, he still has a lot to learn.

“I think I could have completed more balls,” he said. “I threw a couple of balls behind kids and I just have to recognize windows and just make plays. I [need to] just get the ball in the hands of the playmakers. That’s all I can do as a quarterback. Things I need to work on are just analyzing their windows, anticipating the routs coming out which is tough because the defense is a lot faster than you’re used to.”

Although Howard is a FCS opponent with just one win last season, the game still has large implications to both the Scarlet Knights and their fans.

To Savage, it is a chance to get comfortable in his new position of power, while continuing to learn as his playing time increases.

And for the fans, it is a chance to see the first of many starts for the most highly touted quarterback recruit in Rutgers history.

And maybe even a win.

“I definitely think this is a big game,” Savage said. “We just have to go out there and focus on Howard and not look forward.”

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Season set to open on links in Piscataway certainly like to make sure that I’m picking the guys that are hitting the ball the best and are going to be the most consistent As the Rutgers men’s golf scorers,” Bataille said. team prepares to host the seasonRutgers looks to improve on opening Rutgers Invitational this last year’s ninth-place finish in its weekend, MEN’S GOLF home event, which was captured o n e by in-state rival Seton Hall for the strength of the squad is becomsecond time in three years. ing clear to first-year head coach Senior captain Jordan Gibbs said Jason Bataille: depth. that he and his teammates are With two qualifying rounds focused on defending their home still to be played, highly-touted course this time around. freshman Gene Yang leads the “We haven’t played nearly to Scarlet Knights in scoring averour potential in our home tournaage, while fellow underclassman ment the last three years so we Andrew Tursky and junior just want to play Christopher as well as we can,” Frame are also “It just shows the Gibbs said. among the top five.

G i b b s ’ Bataille views talent they all thoughts were this as an encourpossess ... at any echoed by his aging sign and head coach, who said he believes it time they could is confident that will only help to his team will make elevate the play all win an a strong showing of the Knights’ individual title.” this weekend. five seniors.

“Three of the “It’s nice to see JASON BATAILLE guys have an indimore competiHead coach vidual title, so tion,” Bataille said. that’s something “A lot of times, last you don’t find on most golf year, the same guys got used to teams,” Bataille said. “It just going on the road, so now they’re shows the talent that they all facing more competition possess and that at any one amongst the team and it always time, they could all win an indibrings out the best in their game. vidual title. It’s scary to think Not only do they see the compehow good they could be when tition on the road, but now they they all play well together.” have to step their game up at all Competing programs times, so it definitely helps lower include fellow in state prothe scores.” grams St. Peter’s, Rider and Ball-striking is also an area Fairleigh Dickinson will highthat Bataille will continue to light the 13-team field. The 36focus on as he sets his rotation hole tourney tees of f Friday for the two-day event. morning at the 6,337 yard, par“There’s plenty of lucky 71 Rutgers Golf Course. bounces that happen in golf, so I

BY KEVIN O’ROURKE STAFF WRITER

BRENDAN MCINERNEY/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior Emma Chrystal, a native of Kalamazoo, Mich., recorded double-digit kills in the Scarlet Knights’ 3-2 comeback win over Princeton at the Delaware Invitational.

ERRORS: Knights travel to North Carolina for Classic continued from back The Knights will be put to the test this weekend when they travel south for the North Carolina State Classic, where they will play double-headers on both Friday and Saturday.

Rutgers will start the tournament against George Mason Friday morning and finish the

day against host North Carolina State. RU then takes on Dartmouth Saturday morning before finishing the tournament against Xavier.

The only team that the current Rutgers (1-5) roster has faced is George Mason, who defeated the Knights 3-0 last year in the Davidson College tournament and holds the lead in the all-time series 5-2.

Werneke looks to the tournament as a continuation for his team to figure out its strengths

and weaknesses before it begins conference play.

“It is going to be two matches a day and that is what we need — experience,” he said.

Still, errors made from game to game still seem to mock the team from a distance. And until they can come up with some answers, the Knights can only keep working on it in the gym.

“They have to start changing practice to practice,” Werneke said, “or else we’re just going to run into much of the same.”

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BY MATTHEW STEIN SPORTS EDITOR

In recent years, out-of-position players have made famous the art of lining up as an eligible tackle and breaking off the line to catch a touchdown pass.

Linebacker Mike Vrabel of New England Patriots fame had multiple touchdowns in one season off the edge, and defensive tackle Warren Sapp has caught for a score as well.

Perhaps most famously in the metropolitan area, New York Jets

offensive lineman Jumbo Elliot caught a game-tying touchdown from Vinny Testaverde on Monday Night Football against the Miami Dolphins in 2000, all part of a 23point fourth quarter comeback.

Rutgers junior Howard Barbieri, however, can’t see himself doing the same.

“No, I don’t think so,” he said.

But Barbieri’s versatility has earned the offensive lineman a good deal of playing time for the Rutgers football team this season, starting Monday’s season

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opener against Cincinnati at left guard and occasionally lining up as an eligible tackle when sophomore Caleb Ruch shifts back into his guard position.

Though announced as costarters on the two-deep, Barbieri got the starting nod over Ruch Monday and played the majority of the snaps. But the heralded offensive line, thought to be the best in the Big East, allowed five sacks, and the RU running game never got going.

“We only ran for 50 yards last week; we have to establish some kind of a run game,” Barbieri said. “[The key is] being more physical, staying on our blocks longer.”

Head coach Greg Schiano knows a balanced rushing attack is key to the Knights’ success and an 11:39 run-to-pass attempt ratio after the opening drive just will not cut it.

“I think we have to establish it,” Schiano said. “We need to be able to run the football. There are all different reasons why and blah blah blah, but we have got to run it. Running the football is not all that complicated. It’s not easy, but it’s not complicated.”

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Junior Howard Barbieri (74) started over sophomore Caleb Ruch at left guard against Cincinnati and also lined up as a tackle eligible.

TRUE FRESHMAN

Tom Savage was named the starter for Saturday’s contest against Howard, Schiano expects seniors Dom Natale and Jabu Lovelace to be ready to go.

Natale will serve as the primary backup and will most likely see snaps this weekend, but Schiano is unsure of whether the “Jabu package” will be utilized after its general ineffectiveness against Cincinnati.

Junior Brandon Bing (23) started Monday at cornerback, but will battle with sophomore David Rowe for that spot vs. Howard.

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only change to the depth chart on Wednesday.

Junior Brandon Bing, who started against the Bearcats, and sophomore David Rowe, who served as the nickel cornerback, both took reps with the first team in Wednesday’s practice.

Schiano said senior tight end

Shamar Graves hasn’t “stepped up as much as we think he can,” so a number of tight ends will be vying for playing time this weekend.

“At tight end, we’ll do some mixing around with some different guys,” Schiano said. “And maybe some more wideouts playing behind [Tim] Brown and [Mohamed] Sanu.

Knights want to convert potential into results

BY JOSH GLATT STAFF WRITER

Potential and achievement are two different qualities for a team.

Last year, the Rutgers WOMEN’S GOLF w o m e n ’ s golf team had potential. Now, the team looks to convert its lofty potential into results.

The 2008-09 golf season featured disappointing results for the Scarlet Knights, who finished seventh at the Big East championships. But the six freshmen intermittently showed flashes of their talent.

With her top performers and incumbent captain returning, head coach Maura Ballard expects the team to grow from last season.

“Last year, we dropped our scoring average by 15. We really want to build on last year’s success,” Ballard said.

With only one freshman joining the team, she believes that added chemistry will help lead to increased success.

“Having only one freshman is going to be a big help for both me and them because we know each other,” Ballard said. “Everyone will be more comfortable.”

She made up for the lack of quantity in this year’s freshman class with quality. The sole newcomer this year is the highly touted Brittany Weddell, a two-time New England Interscholastic Girls’ Golf Championship. This summer Weddell shot a 68, defeating the field by five strokes for her second consecutive New

England championship. Despite her freshman status, Ballard expects Weddell to make an impact from day one.

“Last year, we dropped our scoring average by 15. We really want to build on last year’s success.”

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“It should be interesting having her on the team. She has a lot of experience and has had a suc-

cessful summer,” she said. “I definitely think she will be in the top five for us this year.”

Beyond the impact of Weddell, Ballard believes her rising sophomores will continue to improve.

Two standouts from last year’s freshman class, Kristina Lee and Lizzy Carl, are poised to have breakout seasons.

“They have both played a lot this summer. They have a lot of talent and have been able to improve,” Ballard said.

With the experience they acquired this season, Ballard believes they will be able to get rid of the inconsistency that plagued the Knights last year.

In addition to her young players maturing, Ballard expects team captain junior Jeanne Waters to continue her stellar

play. In the 2009 spring season, Waters led the team with a 78.8 stroke average and finished 26th at the Big East Championships.

Ballard believes that having Waters returning as captain will be an asset to the team.

“She’s been a great leader and will be great for the consistency.

She really is the perfect person for the job,” Ballard said.

Heading into the first practice, Ballard is confident in her team’s talent but hopes to tighten the short game, a weak point from last season.

“We have our first day of practice coming up,” she said. “We are going to focus on the short game because they can make vast improvements in that part of the game.”

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Still winless, RU heads to UDel

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON SENIOR WRITER

DAN BRACAGLIA/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Last season, junior Amy Zhang was named the Scarlet Knights’ most valuable player and was an All-Big East selection.

Zhang ready to break out on national stage

BY MELISSA FALICA STAFF WRITER

From her first serve on the tennis courts at Rutgers, junior Amy Zhang has TENNIS turned heads with her performance.

She came out of the gate strong as a freshman, ending the year with a 21-3 singles record, a 16-8 doubles mark and the 200708 Targum Freshman Athlete of the Year Award.

“I think I had a good advantage because I hadn’t really heard of all of these teams and I didn’t know the players, so I just went into each match without knowing anything about it and just playing and not worrying about how good their record was,” Zhang said.

Head coach Ben Bucca knew from the start that Zhang would be an exceptional player and would really excel in the game.

“Sometimes when it’s at the crucial moments in the match, many struggle with that moment and Amy has the capability to excel in that moment,” Bucca said.

Zhang began to display her talent at the age of five, when she took up the sport after watching her parents play.

Originally born in China, Zhang lived in California and Texas before finding her way to New Brunswick and Rutgers University.

“I really wanted to go to school on the East Coast because I lived in California; I lived in Texas and I’d never been to the East Coast,” Zhang said. “I really liked it here.”

Since joining the Rutgers tennis team, Zhang has impressed both on and off the court.

Last year, she was named MVP of the Scarlet Knights and was also a Big East selection.

Big East selections are voted upon by all of the coaches in the conference, but coaches are not allowed to vote for any player on their team.

“I was really surprised by the Big East selection,” Zhang said.

“It was nice to know that coaches on other teams have noticed and that they know my name.”

As for being named MVP by her teammates, Zhang was honored and very happy to receive the award.

“I’m sure I speak for not only myself but also the girls on the team that Amy is a perfect example of how to lead by example and that she just very quietly but very diligently is prepared for practice, is prepared for matches and competes from the very first point right to the last,” Bucca said.

Zhang was also named an ITA Scholar-Athlete for the second consecutive year for her outstanding academic performance off the court.

“A lot of times it can be tough because I’ll be physically tired from tennis and when I’m physically tired, it’s kind of hard to focus mentally in my classes,” she said.

Despite her academic and athletic success, Zhang hopes to improve even more this year as the fall season approaches.

The only goal she has for this year is to continue her success and approach each match as she always has.

“For me, something I like to work on is getting off to a good start because a lot of the times if I’m not careful, I’ll be slow or I’ll quickly go down in the beginning so I think what’s important for me is to try to move a lot and to be aggressive from the beginning,” Zhang said.

In the future, Zhang sees her experiences with the Knights to be beneficial in more ways than one.

“The girls on the team, I’m going to be friends with them for life,” she said. “The experiences that I gained from what I learned from competing and trying to set an example will definitely help me in the future when it comes to the real world.”

Last year when the Rutgers field hockey team took on Delaware and Temple, it picked up two FIELD HOCKEY out-ofconferRUTGERS AT e n c e DELAWARE, wins, FRIDAY, 3 P.M. besting t h e Owls handily and edging the Blue Hens late in the second half.

But this year, the Scarlet Knights find themselves going into tomorrow’s match against Delaware and Sunday’s contest against Temple under a different set of circumstances.

After two tough losses last weekend, one in double overtime, the Knights are still battling for their first win. Though they have put together impressive portions of games in which they move the ball and score seemingly at will — scoring four goals in two separate games this year and putting up 22 shots in their last contest against Appalachian State — small slip ups continue to be a thorn in their side and the determining factor.

Victories have been so close but seemingly just out of grasp. In the most telling statistic of the young season, all four games so far have been lost by only one goal.

To head coach Liz Tchou, every game so far has provided the team with more motivation to succeed and get their first win on the board.

“I think [the team is] probably still going to be frustrated with the past losses, but I think that’s

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Jessika Hoh scored the go-ahead goal against Delaware last season.

The senior forward has scored three times this year. going to only fuel us more for each game,” she said.

With a full week of practice since their last game, the Knights have continued to focus on making the little adjustments that they hope will produce the formula they have been looking for.

“We’ve been trying to work on the details; we’ve been falling short on some of the little things.

We need to be more disciplined in our play and we need to be more consistent in how we problem solve in the field,” Tchou

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Senior forward Brittany Bybel leads the Scarlet Knights in scoring with four goals this season. RU is still trying to pick up its first win.

said. “It’s really just trying to cut down on the unforced errors on the field.”

One thing that has remained consistent of the team so far this year is their work ethic, putting in strong effort at practice.

“Our kids are obviously disappointed in the losses up to this point but they’ve been working really hard this week,” she said.

“I’ve been happy with the intensity at practices.”

The team will face off against a Delaware squad that has had its own share of difficulties in its young season, losing two blowout games at the hands of ranked opponents to start its year. But the Blue Hens are coming off their first win of the season — a 10-2 rout over Brown University.

“Watching the video, they’re very fast, very aggressive and very much an attacking team.

They move the ball north-south well and they’re very dynamic,” Tchou said.

Last year, the Knights scored the go-ahead goal with under eight minutes to go on a tip in by senior forward Jessika Hoh. Hoh is currently second on the team in goals with three, one behind fellow senior forward Brittany Bybel.

The team will get one day of rest before traveling to Philadelphia to take on the Owls.

This weekend’s games mark the third and fourth contests of a five game road trip.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

His time is now True freshman named starting quarterback by head coach Greg Schiano after solid debut vs. Cincinnati

BY SAM HELLMAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

BRYAN ANGELES/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Let the Tom Savage Era begin.

Savage’s meteoric rise up the depth chart since arriving on the Banks for training camp took the final step yesterday at practice FOOTBALL when head coach Greg Schiano named him the starter for Saturday’s game against Howard.

After taking over the quarterbacking duties from senior Dom Natale at halftime of the 47-15 loss to Cincinnati, Savage’s 15-for23 day and general performance was enough for Schiano to give him the vote of confidence for game two.

“Tommy’s going to be the starter,” Schiano said after practice. “Dom’s going to back him up. It was a lot of things. I don’t want to get into everything, but our policy is all things being equal off the field, we’re going to play the guy we think gives us the best chance to win. We don’t claim to be right all the time, but you have to do what you believe is best.”

Savage, who got the word from Schiano during practice, said that he is prepared to take over the reins at quarterback and he is excited for his first start.

“It’s definitely going to be different, but I’m just doing what Coach [Schiano] told me to do,” Savage said. “He says go out there, I’m going to go out there. It’s the same thing even if I’m third string. You have to go out there and watch the film. You have to analyze the defense and you have to take each game seriously.”

But do not rule out Natale just yet.

After Ryan Hart lost the starting job to Mike Teel in 2005, he eventually won it back in the bowl game after Teel struggled as a redshirt freshman.

True freshman quarterback Tom Savage was announced the starter for the Rutgers football team’s upcoming home game against Howard. Savage was 15-of-23 for 135 yards and had a touchdown in the second half of Monday’s contest against Cincinnati.

SEE SAVAGE ON PAGE 16

In form, ranked Knights head west Errors stand in way

of more RU victories

BY CHRIS MELCHIORRE CORRESPONDENT

A recurring theme in the Rutgers women’s soccer team’s opponents began last week and will continue over the next several weeks of the season.

WOMEN’S SOCCER All of the teams on the Scarlet RUTGERS VS Knights’ schedule SAN DIEGO (IN TUSCON) during that timeFRIDAY, 11 P.M. span are not only of an extremely high talent level, but also seem to be playing with some sort of chip on their shoulders.

Last week it was Penn State, at the time a top-15 team seeking revenge against RU for knocking them out of last year’s NCAA tournament.

This weekend, it is San Diego and Arizona, both of whom entered the season as two of the nation’s top 25 teams. Arizona is currently out of those rankings and No. 21 San Diego is hanging on by a thread after being upset at home by Ohio State.

“I expect them to be ticked off,” said head coach Glenn Crooks. “They did win their last match, but they’re coming off a 3-0 loss to Ohio State on their home pitch. And I think if I were their coach, and I know him quite well, he’s going to have them looking at this match as a must win.”

A win over San Diego would put the Knights at the brink of locking up an NCAA tournament berth, which they know is remarkable considering they will have only played seven games and have yet to start conference play.

SEE WEST ON PAGE 15

BY BILL DOMKE CORRESPONDENT

JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior forward Gina DeMaio and the Rutgers women’s soccer team is coming off a 1-0 victory over then-No. 13 Penn State.

They travel west this weekend to face San Diego and Arizona.

While the overall record may not show it, it has not been all gloom and VOLLEYBALL doom for the Rutgers volleyball team.

The Scarlet Knights picked up their first win over the weekend against Princeton at the Delaware Invitational, overcoming an early 20 deficit to take three straight sets from the Tigers. They then proceeded to drop three straight to host Delaware — any traces of previous momentum obliterated.

But final outcomes are never a good method of gauging any team’s strength.

“There’s a lot of fight in our team we saw this weekend,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “[We saw an] ability to come back, now we just have to address the things that are holding us back from winning.”

With its first win under its belt, the team is focused more on its game-play, namely errors. The Knights played with the Blue Hens throughout the first set and were poised to increase pressure, but after an error that Delaware quickly capitalized on, RU found itself with another notch in the loss column. The second set was more of

the same, and by the time the Knights were able to pull themselves together in the third set it was too late.

“We’re still making too many unforced errors at critical moments,” Werneke said. “Glaringly, it was our main struggle.”

But critical moments weren’t the only times the team made errors.

Thus far, Rutgers has 172 attacking errors to its opponent’s 91. On serve receptions, the team posted 30 errors to their opponent’s 22.

While this and a myriad of other issues remained the problem last year, many other problems have been taken care of for this year, Werneke said.

Now it is simply a matter of the team reducing the number of errors and that starts in practice.

“As a coaching staff, we go week to week looking at errors we need to improve on to give us an opportunity to win,” Werneke said. “We tr y to show them how and when to do things, what time and explain this to the kids. Then put them in situations that they’re going to be in during the game so when they get to that point they know what to do and how to respond.”

SEE ERRORS ON PAGE 17