The Daily Targum 2010-10-04

THE DAILY TARGUM

Volume 142, Number 23

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The Rutgers football team suffered a 17-14 Homecoming loss against the Tulane Green Wave on Saturday, when freshman Chas Dodd relieved an injured Tom Savage.

Community holds vigil for Clementi

BY ANDREA GOYMA

BY COLLEEN ROACHE

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Rain may have stopped Friday’s Homecoming Kickoff Festival and Pep Rally at Buccleuch Park, but blue skies set the scene for the remainder of the annual two-day celebration at the University.

Thousands of students and alumni gathered at Scarlet Square on the E-Fields on Busch campus for the 2010 Homecoming Pregame Tailgate Party before Saturday’s football game against Tulane University.

“It wasn’t ideal what happened [Friday,] but because we were able to bring those festivities in, [Saturday was] a little bit bigger because of it,” said Brian Perillo, executive director of Alumni Relations.

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No one said they had to be there, but among the mass of people who stood on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus last night, there was a sense of needing to be present in order to commemorate an absence.

University students, faculty and those who simply wanted to honor the life of University student Tyler Clementi — who committed suicide last week after his roommate allegedly used a webcam to transmit his intimate encounter with a male — convened with candles for a vigil in memoriam.

“Tonight begins the process of healing,” said Jenny Kurtz, acting director for the

The University community gathers in a silent vigil last night on the College Avenue campus in memory of University first-year student Tyler Clementi.

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STUDENT GROUPS ROLL IN FOR CHARITY

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School of Arts and Sciences juniors and Phi Sigma Pi members Brittany McGovern, Belinda Lui and senior Gabby Hudis race down College Avenue Friday at the races.

Easton Avenue project seeks to reduce traffic

BY DENNIS COMELLA STAFF WRITER

Middlesex and Somerset County planning boards held a public information session Thursday to discuss plans for improvements to the Easton Avenue Corridor in New Brunswick and the surrounding cities.

This marked the second public meeting on the Easton Avenue Corridor Study to discuss plans for the 6.6 mile stretch of road that extends from the intersection of Easton Avenue and French Street in New Brunswick to the intersection of Main Street and Hamilton Street in Bound Brook.

Improvements to the roadways, pedestrian and bicycle traffic, traffic management and public transit were among the issues discussed.

“Both counties look for ward to getting feedback from the public on the draft recommendations to reduce congestion and improve

safety for the traveling public along this heavily traveled corridor that ser ves as an important gateway into downtown New Brunswick,” said Somerset County Freeholder Patrick Scaglione.

Safety is one of the biggest issues along Easton Avenue because of the large volume of traffic.

“Easton Avenue is a very dangerous street to cross as a pedestrian or even in a car,” said Charlie Kratovil, a New Brunswick resident.

Along Easton Avenue, missing sidewalks and dangerous crosswalks make pedestrian travel dangerous, and the lack of adequate bicycle paths and commuter options makes traveling by car the most feasible option for most people, said Joseph Fishinger, a Somerset County engineer.

“We still don’t have a bike lane in this city,” Kratovil said. “That’s got to be a priority. So many people

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Beds on wheels zoomed down College Avenue Thursday night for the third annual Homecoming Charity Bed Races.

The Rutgers University Programming Association organized the event, for which student organizations at the University collected hats and gloves to assist the children in New Brunswick Public Schools.

The teams collected 2,597 hats and gloves in total, said RUPA Vice President Marie Pace.

“In just three years, this event has grown into an amazing homecoming tradition that this year saw 50 teams of racers having a blast while also contributing to a great cause,” RUPA Assistant Director of Programs Carey Loch said.

The award for first-place overall went to the Student Life Leadership team, which won $750. Phi Delta Epsilon won second-place overall along with $500. Third-place overall went to the Livingston Theatre Company, which received $250. RUPA also awarded each team a trophy.

“A lot of work goes into preparing for the event, both to market to various student organizations, but also to prepare the actual beds and take care of all of the logistics for the race on College Avenue,” Loch said.

Prizes were also awarded to the teams who had the most spirit, fastest time, best-designed beds, best costumes and the highest collection of hats and gloves.

Phi Delta Theta won the “Fairy Tale Ending Award” for showing the most spirit.

Phi Delta Epsilon won the “Burnin’ Rubber Award” for having the fastest speed.

In addition to first-place overall, the Student Leadership Team won the “Rollin’ in Style Award” for the best decorated beds.

The “Sleep Tight Award,” or recognition for the best costumes, was awarded to Delta Chi. “Charitable Chariot Award” was awarded to the RutgersZone for collecting the most hats and gloves for the benefit.

IN REMEMBRANCE

— Elizabeth Yannes

INDEX METRO The Middlesex County 4-H Center launches a haunted house and maze to raise money.

OPINIONS Gov. Christie stalls plans for a multi-billion dollar tunnel linking NJ and NY.

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Paul Zilber, an acquaintance of Tyler Clementi takes part in Black Friday on the College Avenue campus in memory of Clementi. For full story, see PAGE 6.

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Intersect Fund helps to launch business ventures

BY ANKITA PANDA CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Economic times may not be the best, but aspiring entrepreneurs may look to the Intersect Fund, a New Brunswick-based nonprofit organization, for advice on how to start a business.

Entrepreneurs with businesses in areas like jewelry, cosmetics and body scrubs brought their passions to campus Saturday during the Intersect Fund’s market on the lawn of the Eagleton Institute of Politics on Douglass campus.

Through Intersect, these entrepreneurs prepared to launch their enterprises with classes on how to open, market and manage their different businesses.

Intersect client James Crandall, of Piscataway, owns JNC Wholesalers, a business that sells products no longer found on shelves. He expressed appreciation for the organization’s help. “[Intersect] was willing to do things that a lot of places wouldn’t have done for me,” Crandall said. “We got a microloan through them for my van.”

University alumni Rohan Mathew and Joe Shure started the organization in 2008 with only four clients, and Intersect has since provided its services to more than 100 entrepreneurs.

“We’ve got classes on business planning and operation, how to manage your books and keep track of cash flow, different marketing strategies [and] how to write a [Food and Drug Administration] approved business plan,” Mathew said.

The Intersect Fund makes it easier for start-up businesses to obtain loans, he said.

“Most of the people who get loans from us wouldn’t qualify for loans from traditional banks, but we make loans based on their

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The Intersect Fund holds its market Saturday on the lawn of the Eagleton Institute of Politics on Douglass campus. Entrepreneurs attended classes on how to manage their businesses. character,” Mathew said. “We look at them in the eye and [see] their enthusiasm.”

Intersect also provides entrepreneurs with one-on-one business planning sessions, business graphic designs and training in Quickbooks, a business accounting software.

“Intersect gave me tools to see how to make money, how much money I should charge for things [and how] to advertise,” said Piscataway resident Janice McMillan, who owns the babysitting, event planning and catering business Ever ything and More.

McMillan also praised the networking opportunities available through Intersect.

“They’ve connected me with the [New Jersey] Chamber of Commerce, which also gave me a mentor,” she said. “They keep me in touch with things [and] invite me to events.”

Megan Faust, the Intersect Fund’s director of Access to Markets, agreed that Intersect provides entrepreneurs the opportunity to form some of the most important connections of their careers.

“You get to meet people, see different businesses, [and] I’ve

learned how to get in touch with the right kinds of people,” said Faust, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Tracey Amadi, Somerset resident and co-owner of Skin Arise, said Intersect helped clarify business concepts that she never learned in her 20 years of working as an accountant.

“You learn how to deal with your customers’ pricing. You learn how to get a handle on the profit margin,” said Amadi, who sells herbal body scrubs and nutritional body oils. “They make you understand the whole concept of business through and through.”

Faust, also an Avon representative, said Intersect helped her fine tune her own organizational, social and marketing skills.

“The clients who sign up learn business planning, financial planning, marketing, registering [their] business and the legal side of things,” she said.

Intersect clients often sell their products through websites like overstock.com and ebay.com. Other clients, like Amadi and her business partner, Janice Francisco, work mainly from home.

Shure said entrepreneurs should invest their time and money in Intersect because of the fund’s holistic approach and individualized attention.

“We’re unique, because we take business concepts and break them down into a way that anyone can understand,” he said. “We work with you throughout the whole course of your business.”

Shure expects to expand the business to as many college campuses as possible.

“We started a microfinance alliance that helps other campus-based groups get started,” he said. “We teach them how to do business education [and] microlending.”

Shure, who hopes to be a long-term part of Intersect, said he knows the fund will only improve and grow with time.

“I see us serving more clients … ser ving better, I see us becoming the go-to organization in New Jersey for small businesses that are trying to get started,” he said.

Although he is not sure what the future holds for Intersect, Shure remains hopeful.

“We do think there’s a ton of potential for this movement to spread throughout the country,” he said.

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HOMECOMING: U. alumni reconnect with friends continued from front Scarlet Square was lined with games, inflatables, prizes, chartered alumni groups, alumni associations and the University’s mascot, the Scarlet Knight with his matching horse.

University Professor Patrick Gardner directed the Rutgers University Glee Club through four numbers, including “The Rutgers Histor y Lesson” and “The Alma Mater” before members headed to the stadium to sing the national anthem. “[Homecoming] is an especially important day for us,” Gardner said. “Our [first-year] members are here for their first public glee club event.”

One of the messier attractions at Scarlet Square was the Rutgers Wing Bowl 2010, during which participants were challenged to eat 60 Buffalo wings in two minutes. This year’s Buffalo wing king was Jonathan Squibb, a University alumnus, who finished 29 out of the 60 wings.

“I won the Philadelphia Wing Bowl twice,” Squibb said. “My top was 238 wings in half an hour, so this is a fun hobby for me.”

In addition to the Wing Bowl, Homecoming Idol, originally

VIGIL: Other universities attend to show their support continued from front Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities.

Various campus organizations and departments, including Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance at Rutgers University; RU Pride; Queer Caucus; the School of Arts and Sciences and the Institute for Women’s Leadership, sponsored the memorial.

“In the wake of recent tragedies [on our campus] and schools and universities nationwide, much kindness is extended to the Rutgers community,” Kurtz said.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the communities and individuals impacted by these events.”

BiGLARU co-President Ronni Auld was glad to see unfamiliar faces last night.

“There were a lot of faces that you don’t really see at [lesbian,

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scheduled for Friday, was among Saturday’s events with the Rutgers University Alumni Association Board Chair Jim Rhodes serving as one of the three judges.

“This is my second year of doing it,” Rhodes said. “The students put their performances up on YouTube, we pick the top five and they perform live here.”

Despite being a judge, Rhodes said the job did not bring out his inner Simon Cowell because he had nothing but good things to say.

University alumnus Erik Parian took first place after singing “Ordinary People,” made popular by singer John Legend.

“I was confident, but I definitely wasn’t positive I’d win,” Parian said. “This is my first homecoming as an alumnus.

It’s great being back here. I miss it here.”

Aside from giving students the chance to participate in Universitywide events, Homecoming also gave University alumni a way to reconnect with one another and their alma mater.

Graduate School of Education Alumni Association President Roberta Kanarick, who met her husband Robert Kanarick at the University, said she looks forward to Homecoming every year.

“We get a chance to see alumni who we haven’t seen and we

get them involved with our activities,” Kanarick said. “A couple of years ago I brought my grandkids. They thought it was great.”

Donna Thornton, vice president for Alumni Relations, said she also enjoys attending yearly.

“It’s a festival with a great atmosphere,” Thorton said. “It’s fun, it’s what brings Rutgers

gay, bisexual and transgender events] that I recognized as straight allies,” said Auld, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “It was a good opportunity as a Rutgers community to come together as one.”

Jose Santiago, also co-president of BiGLARU, said Clementi’s situation mirrors one that is common in the LGBT community.

“What happens with so many young people who are LGBT, the thing that unites us all, is that we have to come out of the closet,” said Santiago, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “It’s not fun, it’s not easy, it is not pleasurable in any way. I think the day that we are all truly equal is the day that coming out of the closet no longer exists.”

Rick Brown, a class of 1973 alumnus from Aberdeen, N.J., waived a rainbow-colored flag throughout the vigil and recalled coming out of the closet during his first year at the University.

“When I saw Tyler’s picture I just thought, ‘What a terrible loss for the world,’” he said. “It’s caused me to think, ‘Maybe there’s some struggling, young gay people around that I could just say hi to.’”

Abena Busia, professor of English and women’s and gender studies who has taught at the University for 30 years, was disturbed by the events that led to last night’s vigil.

“I am profoundly saddened and profoundly disturbed on a number of levels,” she said. “A part of me felt we failed our children — that two young people had no moral compass.”

Still, she said the University itself has a history of standing against injustice.

“This university as an institution really has been at the forefront of social justice for at least the last 50 or 60 years,” she said.

“So I am a witness to the work this University has done. This is a university that has not been afraid of stepping out and reaching out.”

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M alumni together to celebrate their common bond with Rutgers, and we couldn’t ask for a better day.”

Jennifer Boscia Smith, director for Alumni Communications, graduated from Bloomsburg University and said her first homecoming on the University staff was a great experience.

“To have a 390,000 alumni body worldwide and to have 10 percent or even 1 percent of them come back, it’s like having my entire campus in this field,” Smith said. “I was looking for my colleague earlier and I said ‘Oh, I’ll just look for the girl in the red shirt’ — it’s a sea of red.”

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Comedians Donald Glover and Craig Robinson joke about the University through music and rap Saturday night at the Homecoming Comedy Show in the College Avenue Gym.

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Hundreds come together to remember Tyler Clementi and to spread a message of tolerance in a silent candlelight vigil last night in front of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus.

Rutgers University Student Assembly President Yousef Saleh was pleased with what he saw at the vigil and said he will meet with the University officials and LGBT groups on campus to determine ways to help the community.

“I am so proud to be a Rutgers student, just to see every race, color, creed come out and support everyone else, it brought tears to my eyes,” said Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “We have never been more united. Our University will grow and the entire country will grow as a result of this.”

Representatives from schools across the state came to show that what happens at the University affects them as well.

School of Engineering senior Paige Sackett embraced the support from other students.

“I don’t know anyone here, and I go to this school,” she said.

“It’s nice to see that people from all over the school and all over the area are coming out to support the cause.”

Bearing signs that read “The LGBT & ally community of Princeton University send our love and suppor t,” and “Princeton stands in solidarity with Rutgers,” students came out to show that their support knows no bounds.

Princeton University sophomore Christina Hendricks said the community at her school wants to continue reaching out to those at the University and show support.

“Princeton University comes in solidarity with Rutgers, as are many nationwide,” she said.

Rider University senior Chris Shepherd, vice president of his college’s Gay-Straight Alliance, said he and other GSA members attended the vigil to support the University, just as he hoped others would do for them.

“We just wanted to share the compassion we had over what happened here,” he said.

Montclair State University senior Matthew Schmidt, who is openly gay, said he came to College Avenue to show other people that it is OK to be themselves. He said those who strug-

gle with identity should never consider suicide as an option.

“I hit rock bottom before, and I did come out of it a stronger person,” he said. “I just want everyone to know that things will always get better.”

Justin Mersinger, a Rider senior and president of the GSA, was pleased to see that all different types of people came to the vigil.

“I think it was really great to see the variety — there were little kids, old, young, gay, straight,” he said. “Change needs to come and it needs to come now, because what happened is not acceptable.”

Amber Currie, a senior at Rider and vice president of development for the GSA was also glad to see the diversity among attendees at the vigil — especially when it came to faith.

“That’s really great just to see the variety in religion because that’s something that doesn’t clash too well with all of this,” she said. “It’s good to see.”

Religious leaders from the University and the surrounding area also came to share their thoughts with the crowd.

University Humanist chaplain Barr y Klassel said the recent events have affects his family and other people he knows. He stressed that everyone needs a safe environment to learn, grow and develop.

“Everything that happens is an opportunity … to change attitudes we might have,” he said.

“We saw in a tragedy an opportunity to rededicate ourselves to our highest values and our highest ideals.”

Kevin Taylor, pastor at Unity Fellowship Church, stressed taking action after the vigil ended.

“My prayer is that our act becomes something greater,” he said. “Sometimes in all of our technology and our running and our coming and our going, we stop to … remember that we’re human beings. Your act of social justice tonight is to pay attention.”

University President Richard L. McCormick and Vice President for Student Af fairs Gregor y S. Blimling also attended the vigil but did not make any comments.

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Debate team ranks 12th in nation

STADIUM STORY

BY MIKE DAVIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Students enjoy a free showing of “Toy Story 3” Friday night at the Rutgers Stadium on Busch campus. RUPA, Student Life, Rutgers Athletics, Dining Services and Dance Marathon sponsored the Homecoming Weekend event.

The Rutgers University Debate Union feels it has seen success many times over the past year since the arrival of debate coach Storey Clayton.

Under his guidance, the team has become a nationally ranked program, Clayton said. As of last week, the RUDU was ranked 12th in the country.

“Our seniors are making a lot of waves,” he said. “Hopefully, we’ll be in the top 10 for most of the year.”

The team is par t of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which consists of more than 50 collegiate debate programs, according to the RUDU website. Included in this league are the Ivy League schools, Johns Hopkins University and the College of William & Mary.

“It’s really exciting because these are some of the premiere schools on the east coast,” Clayton said. “It’s really exciting for a plucky state school to go up, compete and succeed.”

Although the team has been performing well in competition, their track record is not because of strict entry standards.

David Reiss, president of RUDU, had no experience debating in high school and joined the team based solely on the interactions he had at meetings and in practice rounds of debate.

“I just showed up,” said Reiss, a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior.

RUDU members are not required to attend every meeting, only the ones before a tournament they would like to compete in. No experience is required to join.

The actual art of parliamentar y debate is one of the drawing points for many RUDU competitors.

Unlike formal debate, roles are assigned in parliamentar y debate. One side is the “government,” and the other side is the “opposition,” Reiss said.

The government team decides a topic for each round, while the opposition remains out of the loop until the debate begins, he said. Teams go back and forth with arguments and rebuttals for the length of the debate.

But the rigid structure of parliamentar y debate does not always reflect the topics that are discussed.

Sometimes the topics will be straightforward, Reiss said. They will bring up current issues such as foreign policy, the legalization of marijuana or the repealing of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Other times there will be some off-color debates.

When Reiss first joined RUDU, he brought up the dilemma of whether it was right for a parent to let their child know that Santa Claus does not exist.

“I love the issues that are just funny cases,” said Brian Canares, a University graduate student.

Some students involved in RUDU cite the organization’s preparation for the real world as their main inspiration for debating.

“Ever y job in the world is looking for people with great communication skills,” Clayton said. “No one is born knowing how to be a public speaker. It’s something that ever yone has to learn. Ever yone can benefit from debating.”

Students see their work with the debate union pay off in the classroom as well.

Reiss said his ability to write in his classes improved from his experience with RUDU and knows it will help him in the future.

“My ability to write an essay is so different now,” he said. “I’ve gotten so good at formulating arguments on my feet. That’s why I do it.”

RUDU Vice President of Public Relations Krishna Kavi said the organization gives her a new for um to talk about issues.

“I can discuss things here that I’m not able to discuss with a normal person on the street,” said Kavi, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “I learn so much ever y weekend, ever y tournament. You never know what side you’re going to be on, so it helps you see both sides of an issue.”

For Canares, the experiences that come with the debate team offer much more.

“I like the people that are here. Some of my strongest friendships have come from the debate union,” he said. “It’s a ver y good environment, and it’s the kind of place I really want to be. Ever ything that is applicable to real life, I’ve taken away from debate.”

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TRAFFIC: Fishinger says traffic lights need repairs continued from front are afraid to get on a bike in this city.”

One of the biggest dangers on Easton Avenue is that cars often run red stoplights, estimated at up to 600 a day at the intersection of Cedar Grove Lane, Fishinger said.

“Police can’t give them a ticket because there’s nowhere to pull them over,” he said.

To solve this, a traffic camera will be installed at the location to fine and deter offenders.

Attendees also discussed roadway congestion along Easton Avenue because of too many cars on the road at once, especially during rush hours.

“Those times are going to be ver y, ver y busy with cars, and the rest of the day is going to be empty,” Fishinger said.

“There are ways to even out those imbalances.”

While widening the road would solve the problem, there is not enough room to do so, he said.

“We’re tr ying to squeeze as much capacity out as we possibly can,” Fishinger said. “We can’t widen our way out of this.”

The problem is not simply the width of the roads, but a variety of issues that need to be solved together, he said.

“There are ways to think about making the whole system work better,” Fishinger said.

One integral aspect of the plan is to increase transit oppor-

tunities for commuters, because taking public transportation is often more difficult than driving, Kratovil said.

“If they’re left with an option to drive, they will pay for it,” he said. “Unfortunately, the planet will pay for it too, and the community will pay.”

One proposed option to help commuters is an increase in service for the Davidson Avenue Shuttle, which is planned to extend its hours and increase frequency on weekdays, as well as add service on Saturdays to make commuting easier.

Clearly marking bus stops and providing route information is also cr ucial, Fishinger said.

Limited parking spaces in downtown New Brunswick is another issue of contention and makes alternative options for commuters more important, he said.

“Parking is ver y important and easy to forget about,” Fishinger said. “We don’t want these to be long-term commuter spots.”

One possible solution brought to the table was to use more parking meters to deter commuters from parking all day, giving them a monetary incentive to take advantage of alternative commuting options.

The board also considered creating a park and ride area in Franklin Township with an abundance of parking so commuters can take a shuttle from there to New Brunswick.

The planning board is scheduled to conclude their study by December, putting the plans into action shor tly after.

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Fraternity honors memory of student

BY RINAL SHAH STAFF WRITER

The Phi Delta Theta fraternity organized a memorial, that lasted a full 12 hours, for Tyler Clementi, a University firstyear student and musician who on Sept. 22 killed himself.

The memorial, held at 10 a.m.

Friday outside of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, consisted of two tables, one with flowers and a typed note from the members of the fraternity, and the other with a blank book to write condolences to the family for anyone who wished to do so.

Falling in line with the fraternity’s goal of promoting tolerance, the memorial also aimed to show how the tragedy was an example of poor tolerance practices.

“At a University whose foundation is built upon philosophical diversity, and in a world where harmony is promoted and achieved by respecting the views of others, this harrowing occurrence is a time to truly reflect upon the significance of tolerance,” according to Phi Delta Theta’s note.

The note also said evil and hatred is a weight that is chained to the progress of tolerance. The only way people can unhook the two is through mutual understanding and respect for those around them.

Logan Gray, the fraternity’s lead organizer for the memorial, said the University does a lot to help maintain student pri-

vacy. But what it comes down to is how one can address privacy violation issues in an ef fective way.

If the University wanted to implement a program to take preventive measures, it would be a matter of whether all students or just violators should participate, said Gray, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior.

This is a tangible situation that is going to need to be looked at carefully, Gray said.

“In my opinion, the intention

“There is no safe zone at Rutgers. A safe zone is somewhere people can go ... without the fear of being harassed or judged.

PAUL ZILBER Acquaintance of Clementi

here was to exploit Tyler’s sexuality in a destructible way and [Ravi and Wei’s] actions are deplorable,” he said.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Dharun Ravi and Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student Molly Wei are charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy after allegedly recording Clementi’s involvement in sexual acts with another male in his room in Davidson Hall C on Busch campus.

Middlesex County College first-year student Paul Zilber, an

acquaintance of Clementi, said it is difficult to find a safe zone at the University.

“There is no safe zone at Rutgers,” Zilber said. “A safe zone is somewhere people can go to be themselves without the fear of being harassed or judged.”

Zilber said people do not speak out about the issue as often as they should until a tragedy like this occurs.

“I am devastated by this tragedy. I can’t sleep at night thinking about what happened,” he said.

The University, along with the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, is working on bringing Project Civility out of a taboo state of mind, said Ehud Cohen, a School of Engineering junior.

“Project Civility is a program that is based on bringing people together and working toward civility,” Cohen said.

The fraternity asked the community to not let Clementi’s death be in vain, according to the note.

“Let it be a permanent etching in the being of all those who are touched by this event to value the impor tance of mutual understanding, sound morality and individual respect,” the note read.

University President Richard L. McCormick echoed these sentiments in a prior statement to the University community.

“I ask that all members of the Rutgers community honor his life,” McCormick said.

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RUPD ARRESTS THREE SUSPECTS CONNECTED WITH ROBBERY Nearly one week after a robbery and assault occurred on Sept. 25 at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, the Rutgers University Police Department arrested three suspects connected with the incident.

Edison resident Victoria Nye, 19, was charged with robbery and simple assault and is in custody at the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Facility on $50,000 bail, RUPD Lt. Richard Dinan said via e-mail.

Along with Nye, a juvenile from Metuchen and one from Edison were also arrested with the same charges and are lodged in the Middlesex County Juvenile Detention Center, police said.

All three suspects are not affiliated with the University.

— Kristine Rosette Enerio

House of Horrors raises funds for future event

BY ELIZABETH ZWIRZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

County residents looking for a fright this month can brave Middlesex County’s 4-H Center’s haunted maze and house — all while helping a local cause.

Residents throughout the county gathered Friday night at Middlesex County’s 4-H Center on the corner of Cranbury and Fern Road in East Brunswick to kick off the organization’s monthlong fundraising event.

The House of Horrors, organized by the 4-H’s teen council, runs from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. every Friday and Saturday night throughout October.

The event, which has a $3 admission fee, ser ves as a fundraiser for their holiday giftgiving event, Project Gift. The organization raised $6,000 last year toward the cause.

“The initial planning star ts in the summer, and the members come up with ideas of what they’ll need,” said Laura Bovitz, who helped the teens organize the event. “But it takes about a full month to get ever ything up and ready.”

Leaders and contributing members worked every day in September at the event site to ensure that the final production runs smoothly. “[The] haunted house is probably one of the more fun things we do,” said member Holly Lear. “Kids love to participate in it and never complain about working.”

Aside from acting in the house, Lear, 19, helped set up the event and did the makeup for all the volunteers.

“The makeup is all homemade,” she said. “To make the fake blood, it’s mostly corn syrup, gelatin and other food

ingredients, so it’s all edible. It tastes like candy.”

Member Kelsey Parker, 18, acts during the event. She said there is no prior practice involved.

“We just put on our makeup and costumes, and whatever happens, happens,” said Parker, who also helped set up.

Parker has been involved in 4-H since age 5 through family connections.

As 4-H members become older, they can take on different roles and responsibilities, which allow them to have more fun with the event, said Lear, who has been a member for 11 years and anticipates becoming a leader next year.

The proceeds from the event go to toy shopping for Project Gift, where members and parents of children in the area purchase gifts for the December event.

“Parents give us info about their kids, such as their ages, and we try to set up our 4-H center like a department store,” Bovitz said.

At the event, parents are given tickets and get to shop for presents that they give to their kids during the holidays, she said.

There is also a gift-wrap station for the children as well as a childcare area with Santa Claus for the kids to enjoy while their parents are busy shopping.

The main source of donations comes from the House of Horrors but the 4-H also receive generous donations from local businesses, individuals, service organizations and local church groups who supply them with more toys. “[Project Gift] is nice because they can actually give their kids the presents instead of receiving them from an anonymous donation,” Bovitz said.

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Highland Park fair takes art to streets

BY MARY DIDUCH MANAGING EDITOR

Local residents meandered down Raritan Avenue in Highland Park for the sixth annual Arts in the Park yesterday to celebrate local artists and the downtown area.

The Main Street Highland Park organization, which hosts community events throughout the year, coordinated the fair, which also featured live bands throughout the day.

“It’s a juried art show we try to do in an outdoor street setting to bring recognition and opportunities for local artists to come out and spread their work,” MSHP member Walter Deutsch said.

The event featured artwork from about 50 different local artists who spanned the genres from traditional painters to mixed-metal sculptors.

“This community has a huge artistic makeup to it — it always has,” Deutsch said.

Other local artists and retailers judged the artists in categories such as “Green,” “Sculpture,” “Painting,” “Fine Craft,” “Mixed Media,” “Graphics” and “Photography.”

The top three places in each category won cash prizes — $75, $50 and $25 for each place, said James McCrone, MSHP executive director.

To participate in the competition, all artists endured a screening process and submitted a representative sample of work to show their work was appropriate for families and of good quality, McCrone said.

Jonathan Horowitz, a Class of 2005 University alumnus and selftrained painter at the fair, enjoys painting for young children and bringing art to unexpected places.

To outdoor festivals, such as yesterday’s, he often brings a paint set and recyclable materials to engage the kids. At his colorful, vibrant booth yesterday, Horowitz was painting swirls, skulls and geometric shapes onto an old garbage can.

He believes kids should get involved in art because it provides a positive, therapeutic outlet for expression.

“There’s no other more empowering tool … I love education

through passion. It’s the passion that drives me,” Horowitz said.

For Horowitz, who graduated with degrees in economics and Spanish, art had always been a part of his life, although after college, he spent his time tutoring for exams such as the SAT, LSAT and GRE. But when he started painting two years ago, using old bottles and garbage cans as canvases, he knew he found his passion.

“It doesn’t matter how much money you make. It’s about making you happy,” Horowtiz said.

Sculptor and jewelry maker Leon Kuzu, who moved to New Brunswick from Turkey, won third place in the sculpture categor y for his recycled, mixed metal pieces. This was his first year participating in the festival.

Kuzu, who studied in Turkey to become a tour guide, said history and Greek mythology are his main inspirations, as evidenced by the spiral designs of his necklaces, earrings and bangles.

But recycling old metals are also a large part of his craft.

“We make a lot of industrial things, but how many people are recycling things in an artistic way?” Kuzu said, referring to a necklace he made from the bottom of a plastic bottle cast in resin. “But you have to make sure to create a meaningful composition with that.”

Second-place sculpture winner Edmund Spiro of East Brunswick impressed the crowd with his large, wood and steel sculptures of whimsical characters.

A Kean University alumnus who has been painting and chiseling wood for 25 years, Spiro describes his style as contemporary.

“But it is also recognizable. It is not extremely abstract,” he said. One of his sculptures, a clown about the height of a child, was constructed out of a guitar and metal and had wooden shoes.

But when he chisels wood, he tries to maintain the natural beauty of the wood.

On his daily walk one day after a storm, he stumbled across a log and transformed it into a bust of a young woman.

“I converted a storm into something beautiful,” he said.

Spiro said for him as an artist, the most important aspect of his creative process is the viewer.

“I’m attending a lot of outdoor shows to get feedback from the public. … This is the cycle of creativity,” he said. “The viewer completes it.”

Sankoma Joseph, a 10-year-old from Bartle school, was selling spray paint art pieces with her mother, local artist Isis Originile.

“I just spray and try not to hit the edges, other wise it looks like a big blob,” Joseph said, referring to their planetar y, futuristic-looking artwork.

She started spray painting two months ago with the help of her mother, Joseph said.

“I like doing different types of art,” Joseph said. “It’s pretty fun.”

But Originile has been creating artwork all her life.

“Even since the time I was 2, I was scrubbing the walls because it was my canvas,” she said.

She enjoys creating art with her children, and they all work on various mixed media pieces together, using spray paints, acrylics, oil paints and sand.

Originile said all artists and their work inspire her.

“Inspiration mostly comes from life and life experiences,” she said.

But aside from the competition and art showcases, McCrone, whose wife is a University professor, said the festival was a more subdued way to showcase Highland Park’s downtown retailers and restaurants.

Arts in the Park brought in about 8,000 to 10,000 visitors, he said. The smaller audience gave everyone a chance to mingle.

“We weren’t interested in a full-out street fair. It’s a different kind of street fair,” Deutsch said.

Since the fair coincided with the end of Highland Park’s Restaurant Week, the committee chose not to solicit outside food vendors.

“We wanted to give our restaurants a chance to shine,” Deutsch said.

McCrone said the committee is interested in reaching out more to the University community.

“Highland Park has a lot of things that faculty and students would really like,” he said.

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Residents of Highland Park and the surrounding communities channel their creative sides yesterday at the sixth annual Arts in the Park, hosted by Main Street Highland Park. The goal of the small street fair, which drew about 9,000 visitors to Raritan Avenue, was to highlight the town’s local artists, restaurants and retailers while bringing the community together.

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EDITORIALS

Fund state’s future

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ov. Chris Christie has attempted to cut spending in ever y sector of the economy in the months he has been in office.

He slashed spending on education and other ser vices in an attempt to battle the close-to-$11-billion hole the state has found itself in. Now the time has come for one cut that should not be made. Christie wants to stall or perhaps cancel a project that would alleviate traffic, raise money and take advantage of federal funds all at once. The new railways tunnel under the Hudson River linking New Jersey to Midtown Manhattan is one vital ser vice that we need, despite the long-range cuts, which Christie has been enforcing.

If Christie pulls out of this deal, our state stands to lose the $3 billion that the federal government has pledged to the project. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is coming up with another $3 billion, while New Jersey was supposed to commit $2.7 billion. Christie’s stalling opposition to this could result in a huge loss — relocating the $3 billion of federal funds to another project elsewhere in the nation. It would simply make no sense, when the governor himself was elected with the hopes of economic growth.

Alongside this massive loss of federal funding, Christie’s opposition to this project could cost the 6,000 potential construction jobs that would be created. At a time of recurrent job losses, we —more specifically our state — should not turn down this opportunity.

Eventually this tunnel will even remove 22,000 vehicles from the roads, according to Port Authority estimates.

We stand to lose a lot from the opposition to this ambitious project. According to The New York Times, the authority claims that the added mobility across the two states will bring $4 billion in personal income to the area, higher real estate values in New Jersey and more good jobs in Manhattan.

Currently Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains carry about 170,000 passengers a day, while there is no room for extra trains. The new tunnel will alleviate this problem and will provide comfort for passengers. Planners predict that over the next two decades, there will be twice as many riders on the two railroad systems. Christie simply cannot turn this opportunity down. While spending in the past has gone overboard, current spending cuts in other areas should be enough to allow the state to take interest in this massive project.

Everything from job creation to the comfort of passengers and profits are on the line, and Christie must choose to take $3 billion of federal funding and support these plans.

Testing cannot hurt

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eople usually associate the Department of Motor Vehicles with long lines, surly employees and agonizing wait times. Some citizens of Washington, D.C., may soon add something new to that list of associations — health care. The Penn Branch DMV in Washington is about to embark on a one-year pilot program in which it will team up with the Family and Medical Counseling Service, a nonprofit group, in order to offer DMV patrons free HIV testing.

While it’s an undoubtedly strange partnership, it could ver y well end up being a great idea. The DMV is an office that most American adults have to deal with multiple times throughout their lives. By offering free HIV tests in such a high-traffic area, the FMCS can raise awareness about the disease among large groups of people. Also, the testing process itself is voluntar y and relatively easy, and results are available in 20 minutes. It’s a better way to spend the hour and a half wait time than reading through year-old magazines.

Many people do not take the time to get tested because their busy schedules don’t allow much time for going to the doctor’s office.

Others may not get tested because they don’t want to spend money on it. Still more do not want to deal with the hassle. Finally, there are those people who never even think of getting testing. Offering free testing inside of a DMV branch mitigates all four of the aforementioned problems. Most people can’t avoid visiting the DMV at some point in their life. Now they have the chance to take care of something very important which they may otherwise neglect.

The only downside to this whole program is that the testing is not only free, but participants will receive $15 toward their DMV expenses as compensation. This is a great way to motivate people to get tested, but in a time of economic crisis it’s questionable whether the government should be striking deals in which it loses money.

Besides, offering free, easy testing in such a visible space should be enough to persuade people to get tested.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is an important public health issue. This program is a great way to raise public awareness and promote social responsibility. Washington has the highest rate of HIV infection in the United States: Three percent of the population has either HIV or AIDS. There is no better place to start this program off and, hopefully, it will be successful. If it is, we may see similar initiatives appear in other states. This program could be a step toward the eventual control of the epidemic.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “It tastes like candy.”

Holly Lear, a Middlesex County 4-H Teen Council member, on fake blood at the House of Horrors STORY IN METRO

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All men created equal

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imminent, the future looks merica has been desolate for the gay comthe womb of ever y munity. Republicans issued civil rights movetheir “Pledge to America,” ment, ever y extension of most of which is a sound freedom. Even this counset of intentions to help the tr y’s own bir th was an countr y recover economiestablishment of the princally, fiscally and politicalciple that liberty applies to JAMES WINTERS ly, but it is also self-contraall. It was this countr y’s dictor y. The pledge states actions that led to a world“an arrogant and out-of-touch government of selfwide end to slaver y as well as an ongoing trend appointed elites makes decisions … without toward equal treatment and respect for women. It accepting or requesting the input of many.” And does have at least one more stop, both politically “the American people are speaking out, demandand socially, on its journey to true, unrestricted ing that we realign our countr y’s compass with its and unadulterated equality and freedom. founding principles.” Republicans pledge “to Congress has failed again in its duty to create advance policies that promote greater liberty,” laws that uphold the rights of people as outlined yet they also pledge “to honor … traditional marin the Declaration of Independence and the riage.” The contradiction is glaring. Were equaliConstitution. The legislature voted down a bill ty and per vasive freedoms not the essence of the about two weeks ago that would repeal the U.S. founding principles? The government cannot promilitar y policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” In a 56-43 mote greater liberty by also restricting marriage, vote, which needed 60 to pass as a defensea legal contract, as if it were an exclusive club for spending bill, senators of both parties denied a only those deemed suitable. move that would allow gays to Marriage is an entirely private openly ser ve in the armed forces.

“Most permeating matter that has absolutely no polit“Don’t ask, don’t tell” is an outdatical implications or consequences, ed, judgmental policy that implies problems in and no negative external impacts. a homophobia in the world’s the political sphere The tea par ty movement is greatest militar y, and fails to asserting itself into Washington, repeal it suggest implicit acceptcan be attributed too. The movement claims to be ance, if not approval of the policy. libertarian, which would suggest it It is an indiscreet intimation that to Congress.” is in favor of confirming and prosoldiers are rightly uncomfortable tecting equal rights and privileges, with people of a different sexual yet some — if not most — of the candidates’ tea orientation, and that gays should not burden othpartiers’ support are socially ultraconser vative. ers with the knowledge of a personal characterisThese candidates want to protect traditional martic. A May 2010 CNN poll shows that more than riage as if it is under siege or believe that a legal75 percent of Americans support the repeal of ly inclusive policy toward marriage will devalue “don’t ask, don’t tell,” but, as is becoming quite the institution altogether. Most of the so-called clear, Congress does not bother itself with its tea party candidates also identify as Christians, constituents’ thoughts. but instead of embracing the teachings of Jesus On a similar note, Congress still has yet to Christ, who implored ubiquitous love above all explicitly authorize same-sex marriage. The real else, some cling to an ancient interpretation of an shame is the assumption that gays need authoriOld Testament script to justify their sanctimozation from a governing body. Marriage is two nious, condemnator y attitudes. things. First and most importantly, it is a private, Most permeating problems in the political personal commitment between two people that sphere can be attributed to Congress, and regular does not need or ask for approval or permission. readers know that I tend to target our sometimesSecond, and in a strictly legal sense, it is a conincompetent leaders. It is true that the legislature tract — an agreement that involves no one and has been indolent with regard to affirming the affects no one but the two involved. Part of this equal rights of gays specifically, but the fault truly countr y’s definition is the government’s restriclies with the American people. We have not tion from private affairs of the people. In this demanded that our representatives do their jobs by sense, Congress’s job is really clerical. As the securing equal rights. The question is: Why not? As founders knew and declared, ever yone is inherone of the most developed countries in terms of ecoently equal. Congress just has to draft a bill that nomic, social and religious freedoms, America has mirrors that idea.

Congress is looking at a change in character SEE WINTERS ON PAGE 11 this November. With a conser vative landslide

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Educate students before condemning Letter PETE SAMET, SHANE SMITH & ELIZABETH WEILL-GREENBERG

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he three of us met as Rutgers College students in Brett Hall on the College Avenue campus and in 2001 graduated together. As alumni, we wanted to reach out and express our deepest condolences to University student Tyler Clementi’s friends and family. His death is a tragedy that words cannot capture.

We also want to speak out to the University community and share our thoughts about the discussion borne out of this tragedy. People are jumping too quickly — and we

WINTERS continued from page 10 utterly failed in social tolerance.

On top of the two examples of “don’t ask, don’t tell” and gay marriage, the general treatment of gays in broad terms has been less than welcoming. Most people are not at fault for explicit ostracism of gays, but for their passive approval of it through inaction. We have allowed a minority of hateful but loud people to prolong injustice and mistreatment, which tragically reached a shockingly tangible tipping point with University firstyear student Tyler Clementi’s death. We have allowed the neutral, plainly descriptive term “gay” to become stigmatized as if it means “alien” or “unclean.” In the past, the gay community has been treated like second-class citizens. Even now, the citizens of perhaps the most progressive

believe incorrectly — to the conclusion that this was a hate crime committed by two monsters.

Eighteen years old is still young. Most people are not born with a rock-solid sense of integrity, but rather meander toward one through a series of pitfalls and epiphanies. The first year of college is kind of like a repeat of middle school, and people often do incredibly stupid and insensitive things just to gain social points. College represents many people’s first exposure to outward homosexuality — and even sexuality in general. In this context, we can easily see first-year School of Arts and Sciences student Dharun Ravi uploading the video sort of as a way of saying, “Wow,

state have voted to permanently ban gay marriage through California’s Proposition 8.

America has a long way to come in its respect for other people and their differences.

The disparity of freedoms and treatment of homosexuals is simply a gaping hole in an other wise seamless reality that America truly is what it claims to stand for. And it is difficult to make a solid argument for gay rights because they should not need to be defended. They fall under the timeless truth that no one is better or more deser ving than the next. The situation is analogous to “innocent until proven guilty.” Gays have the same rights as their neighbors by default, and it should stay that way unless proven other wise.

James Winters is a School of Engineering junior majoring in biomedical engineering. His column, “From the Desk of ...” runs on alternate Mondays.

look at this gay person who is my roommate! Isn’t that weird?” He may have just gotten carried away by the drama and attention. Of course, what Ravi did was grossly

“We also want to speak out to the University community and share our thoughts.” insensitive and inexcusable no matter what the motivation, but it was not necessarily hatebased. Nor is there any evidence that Ravi did this as a way of

“destroying others’ lives as a sport,” as Garden State Equality’s Steven Goldstein claimed. It should also be noted that it is ver y possible to imagine a thoughtless teenager doing this to his straight roommate.

This tragedy is compounded by the vilification of Ravi and Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student Molly Wei and the desire to see these two young people imprisoned. Ravi and Wei are deserving of our compassion and forgiveness. They have found themselves cast as villains in the middle of a national tragedy we are sure they never envisioned.

Maybe it’s easier to wrap yourself in self-righteous anger and cast them as homophobes, as hateful,

as so foreign from yourself than to admit you could have been some version of them at 18. Out of this senseless death, we can have a national conversation about suicide prevention, and we can educate young people about the illegality and cruelty of humiliating another person by broadcasting their most private moments. Ravi likely thought of this as a prank — not a crime — and clearly thought nothing of the effect on his victim.

This is a moment to educate the Tyler Clementis — that suicide is not their only option — and the Ravis of our community.

Pete Samet, Shane Smith and Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg are Rutgers College Class of 2001 alumni.

Establish safe spaces at U. Letter BRYCE RENNINGER

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n reading, watching and listening to the reactions to the tragedy of University first-year student Tyler Clementi’s suicide by many in the University community, I was surprised to see how many people were resistant to or ignorant of the idea of safe spaces. In a letter in The Daily Targum on Friday, “O’Brien, University groups get it wrong,” the author insinuated that my desire to live, work and study in a safe space is a privilege — a privilege that should not be extended to me without a fight. The author unfortunately also has a problem with one recent fight for safe spaces, calling the logic behind Department of Anthropology Assistant Instructor Robert O’Brien and co.’s rally on campus

“preposterous” and calling the rally itself “uncivil.”

The two people charged with crimes in this case, committed the crimes they were charged with and should pay the same price as those that did comparable criminal acts — like those caught planting cameras in bathrooms. But their actions and the language used behind them provides for a very unsafe space. Whether the recordings of Clementi’s sexual acts were meant to be a homophobic act, its effects would be compounded for a queer person.

How can spaces become safer?

By providing education, by providing institutional support. The Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities’ website provides resources for bias prevention and transgender support, but there is no offer, to my sight, of support for members of the community with queer sexualities.

What does an unsafe space look like? A few months ago, riding the subway in the bastion of liberal sentiment and my home, New York City, a man threatened to pee on me because I “made [him] sick.” My crime? I was displaying “gay” signifiers (a bright colored shirt? crossed legs? a limp wrist?) and talking to my boyfriend. That was a most unsafe space. There are other examples in my own experience and plenty more in the University community.

It’s essential to recognize that the college years coincide with reaching adulthood and achieving independence and autonomy. This time should not be spent in an unsafe space. It’s time to recognize this.

Bryce Renninger is a communication, information and library studies Ph.D. candidate and a parttime lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies.

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Today's birthday (10/4/10). The universe challenges you this year to fulfill your mission at work and to develop your inspirational capacity. Make stress your internal barometer that measures how close you come to the mark with every activity you deem worthy of attention. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Your favorite person suggests a plan to test your excitement level. Handle responsibilities first, then devote yourself to private time later.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — You need personal attention today. Others recognize this and contribute, but possibly not how you imagined. Clarify your needs to get them met.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — You need to express your views concerning core values. Associates may see things quite differently and could suggest viable new solutions.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 6 — What would you really want, if you could have anything, be anything or do anything? Imagine that this is all accomplished. Then what would you create for others?

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5 — An outsider raises questions concerning your goals. A creative plan goes on hold while you sort out the implications. Family members provide key information.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — A problem could arise if you become overly anxious about tomorrow's business. Stick to tasks that must be completed today and use your talents.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — You question the group's mindset. Clarify your reservations with visual aids.

Then see if you can connect the dots. If so, then move forward.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Finalize one more question before you present your ideas to the group. Consider the feelings of others as you add the finishing touch.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Time gets away from you as you're having fun.

Everyone wants to share ideas and stir things up. Don't plan on finalizing anything just yet.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — You want everything to be perfect. You get more done if you relax a bit and accept excellence. Very little is lost in the process.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Find out what delights your partner.

Then adapt today's plan to accomplish as much of that as possible. You make stunning progress.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Your need for recognition can wait until you've completed the project.

There's still plenty to do to make this the wonderful piece you envisioned.

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Senior punter Teddy Dellaganna averaged 32.2 yards per punt Saturday, with two short punts leading to Tulane touchdowns.

NOTEBOOK: Holding penalty brings back RU score continued from back seemed less than convinced by the of ficials’ decision.

“Well, it’s a hold if they call it a hold,” Schiano said on his Sunday morning teleconference with reporters. “I’m going to leave it at that.”

It was the most costly of nine Rutgers penalties that accounted for 75 yards, and while Schiano refused to question the decisions, he was frustrated that there were opportunities for flags.

“I was definitely disappointed in the timing, but they were called,” Schiano said after Saturday’s 17-14 loss. “I’m anxious to see some of them, but it really doesn’t matter. If you give them a shot that’s close enough to call, you better be ready to live with it.”

Had the return stood, it would have been Lefeged’s second kickoff return for a touchdown in his career and yet another standout special teams effort for the team captain.

The last return also came at Rutgers Stadium against West Virginia last season, when he took a kick back 91 yards for a score.

This season, he also recovered a blocked punt for a touchdown.

“I don’t know [whether it was a penalty],” Lefeged said in the locker room after the game. “I just saw the crease and hit it as hard as I could. That’s all I saw, so I really don’t know.”

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changed the game, and the Knights came out on the wrong end of each of them.

Junior punter Teddy Dellaganna sent a pair of kicks 20 and 21 yards, respectively, that failed to put Tulane on the far side of the 50-yard line and set up the Green Wave’s two short touchdown drives.

Tulane punter Jonathan Ginsburgh recovered a muffed snap, rolled out along the goal line and sent an end-over-end

punt 46 yards just as he took a hit from Lefeged. “[Dellaganna’s] been punting very well. I don’t know what to tell you,” Schiano said. “Again, there’s no area of our football team, starting with the head coach and all the way down, that was immune for lack of execution today. We didn’t execute. If your job is to punt it, then you need to punt it.

We just did not get it done.”

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offensive line continued, but the results indicate that Schiano must keep searching.

After starting redshirt freshman Antwan Lower y at right guard for the first time last week against North Carolina, he again earned the nod, but did not play the entirety of the game.

Sophomore tackle Devon Watkis came in for Lowery throughout drives and played right tackle, moving junior Art Forst to right guard.

The 6-foot-7 Watkis and 6-foot-8 Forst often played passing downs, while Lowery was in to run block.

“We gave up four sacks,” Schiano said Sunday after watching game film. “We did some really good things as far as our physicality in the run game, blocking people. And then we did some things equally as poor in some of our pass protection. We have to continue to look and probe and seek to see what the best five combination is and at what positions.”

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tailback Kordell Young received the axe prior to the Homecoming game and looked like his old, prethree-knee-surgeries self on a second-quarter reception.

Young took a dump pass before spinning, weaving and cutting his way to a 10-yard gain.

But the West Deptford, N.J., native also committed a pair of penalties that set back the Knights, including a holding penalty on the game’s final drive that changed a first down within field-goal range to second-and-20 on the wrong side of midfield.

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Werneke questions attitude after sweeps

BY BILL DOMKE CORRESPONDENT

If you ever played a game of Jenga, you have a pretty good idea of VOLLEYBALL how the WEST VIRGINIA 3 weekend went for 0 t h e RUTGERS Rutgers volleyball team.

One delicate play that did not go the Scarlet Knights’ way spurred a dangerous downward spiral that proved insurmountable in a pair of losses to West Virginia and Pittsburgh.

“I just told the team at times we looked lost,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “We just don’t know where it came from, how we got to this point. We’re going to take some time to evaluate it, but it just seems like we lost some of the passion of the game and this doesn’t look fun to them anymore.

That’s what it looks like from a coaching standpoint.”

The Knights fell in consecutive sets of 25-17, 25-17 and 2523 to West Virginia yesterday in a game in which they could not generate any offensive momen-

tum until the team’s last chance The errors started in the first to stay in the game. Any posi- set with WVU with a less than tive energy the team picked up impressive .000 hitting percentdissipated after ser vice or age. The Knights struggled to get attacking errors. past .100 the next game.

To make matters worse, a If there was anything that point in the second set when could break the heart of an avid Rutgers looked ready to take a Knights volleyball fan, it was convincing lead escaped thanks watching a 14-7 lead in the third to a debatable net call on set slip away to eventually get the Mountaineers. knotted up at 18 “In ever y apiece. Any “It just seems like points game there’s Rutgers points going to be a bad after were nulliwe lost some call or two,” fied with subseof the passion Werneke said. quent attacking, “You need to take or of the game and this communication it, you have to double hit errors. keep going and I The points doesn’t look fun think we moved came only after to them anymore.” the coaching staff on from that.

There’s a bad call decided to sit out CJ WERNEKE ever y so often, senior outside hitHead Coach you have to kind ters Caitlin of take it and run Saxton and Emma with it. The refs can’t control Chrystal, as well as junior libero the game. You have to control Kallie Pence to sub in senior outthe game.” side hitters Katie Groff, Lauren But one call was not enough to Voss and freshman libero do this.

Mariah Horvath.

The Rutgers offense was rid“Hey, you know we have to dled with mistakes on both change something,” Werneke offense and defense and even said. “Talk to the staff and hey, struggled with communication talk is cheap. If you don’t execute at times. then at some point something’s

got to change. If the players aren’t willing to change, then the coaching staff has to do some changes of their own.”

Things were not much better on Friday.

Pittsburgh was like a welldeveloped essay. The Panthers came in, clearly stated their purpose, and backed up their main point with plenty of examples.

Pitt downed Rutgers in consecutive sets as well, with scores of 25-21, 25-21 and 25-8.

“They came out with a lot of confidence, put a ton of pressure on us, a little swagger — our team gets down early — and we just folded,” Werneke said. “I told them in the locker room at 8-2 they looked scared.”

It was the same idea as yesterday as well. With the exception of a .324 hitting percentage in the second set, the Knights hit for .048 and .000 in the other losses. “[We’re going to talk about] what it takes to compete daily on this level, who’s in and who’s not — these are hard questions,” Werneke said. “It seems like some of our kids just aren’t all in.

And if you’re not all in, it’s going to be seen pretty quickly.”

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he Rutgers women’s cross country team ran its way to a second straight title this weekend, taking first in the 6K race at the 37th annual Paul Short Invitational.

The Scarlet Knights gathered 118 points in Bethlehem, Pa. — 43 points ahead of second-place finisher Princeton.

Kelly Flannigan paced the Knights with a sixth-place finish, running the race in a time of 22:01.

For full coverage, see tomorrow’s edition.

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announced Sunday that forward Carlos Boozer will miss eight weeks after undergoing necessary surgery to repair a broken hand.

The former member of the Utah Jazz signed with the Bulls in the offseason after the club missed out on signing LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade.

Boozer broke the fifth metacarpal bone in his hand after tripping over a bag in his home and falling. The injury came on the Bulls’ day off.

The injur y means more playing time for former Florida Gator Joakim Noah.

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defensive coordinator Chuck Cecil used his hands to express his thoughts about the officiating during Sunday’s loss to the Denver Broncos.

Television cameras caught the coordinator “flipping the bird” with his right hand toward officials after they flagged his team for offsides.

Denver quarterback Kyle Orton threw a two-yard touchdown following the penalty to put the Broncos in front, 7-0.

The gesture comes one year after Titans owner Bud Adams made the same hand motion toward Buffalo Bills fans from his box seat at Ralph Wilson Stadium.

The NFL fined Adams $250,000 and the owner took out a full-page ad in The Buffalo News the following week to apologize and wish the best of luck to the Bills.

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True freshman quarterback Chas Dodd completed 13-of-29 pass attempts for 176 yards and one touchdown but threw an interception on the Knights’ last offensive play. Dodd came on for sophomore Tom Savage, who was 2-for-5 through the air before injuring his hand.

OUT: Missed opportunities thwart RU’s comeback efforts continued from back consistently enough with the game on the line to help Rutgers avoid the upset. “‘Just go out there and sling it,’” Savage said on his advice to Dodd when he came in. “God gave him an arm. You just have to go out there and throw it and not think about it. Just go through your progressions and make the throws.”

Dodd orchestrated a 43yard touchdown drive to cut the lead to three points, but

with multiple chances to find the end zone a second time, Dodd and the Knights came up shor t.

Dodd under threw sophomore Mark Harrison for a potential touchdown, overthrew freshman Jeremy Deering with a chance to move the chains on fourth-and-6 and threw a pick at midfield to end the game.

“All along I’ve said that I have confidence in Chas and I thought he went in there and played with poise,” Schiano said. “Cer tainly there’s throws he wants to have back. There’s also a lot of nice throws he made. I think he handled him-

self ver y well for anybody and especially well for a freshman going in there — his first real action.”

Dodd finished with 13 completions on 29 attempts with 176 yards, one touchdown and one interception. His 29 attempts in two-and-a-half quarters of play marked as many as Savage took during the entire Nor th Carolina game.

Take away the 91-yard touchdown run for Sanu out of the Wild Knight, and the running game averaged just 1.8 yards per carr y.

Savage ran the ball eight times based on a combination of poor protection and well-cov-

ered receivers and eventually fell on his throwing hand while running out of bounds and did not return.

Freshman Jordan Thomas had 20 yards on six attempts at r unning back and junior star ter Joe Mar tinek ran the ball just four times for nine yards.

KNIGHT NOTE: The day was not a complete failure for Rutgers, as Schiano landed highly touted cornerback recruit Jonathan Aiken after his of ficial visit.

Aiken is a four-star recruit and the No. 22 defensive back on Rivals.com.

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footsteps of the men’s gold medal per formance, the United States women’s basketball team defeated the Czech Republic yesterday to win the FIBA women’s world championship.

The win over the host nation gives the Americans their eighth championship and avenges the 2006 campaign that only resulted in a third-place finish.

Angel McCoughtry led the way for the U.S.A., scoring 18 points in front of the sold-out crowd of 6,024.

Candice Dupree set an American record for shooting percentage, shooting at an impressive 75 percent clip from the field for the tournament.

Dawn Staley set the original record of 69 percent in 1994.

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Junior forward Nicole Gentile (11) registered her sixth and seventh goals of the season this weekend, with the latter serving as the game-winner in an overtime victory over Lafayette.

For the third-straight game, Junior goalkeeper Adam the Rutgers men’s soccer team Klink made four saves in the MEN’S SOCCER f o u n d loss, but failed to keep a shot itself on from Alex Hadley in the 34th the losing side of the scoreboard. minute out of the back of the net.

And for the third-straight Hadley stole the ball from game, the Scarlet Knights failed to Rutgers and sent a shot into the put the ball in the back of the net. top left corner of the net, hitThe Knights ting Klink’s fingers, dropped a 2-0 decibut still crossing the sion on the road goal line.

Saturday night The second against Cincinnati.

Bearcat goal came in Rutgers fell to 3-4-1 the 67th minute on a overall and 0-2 in Big cross that found the East play, while the foot of Tristan Bearcats rose to 4-2-3 Watson, who put the and are undefeated in ball past Klink. conference play.

The Knights, scoreYANNICK Yannick Salmon less on three tries on SALMON returned to the field the road thus far, get after missing last back at it Tuesday in week’s game against Temple Newark against NJIT. with a tweaked ankle. The The Highlanders are 2-7 on senior captain was ineffective the season and face the Knights in his return, as was the entire fresh off a 2-1 loss at the hands of Rutgers offense as the team St. Peter’s, a team Rutgers beat mustered just three shots on 2-0 for its first win of the season. goal compared to Cincinnati’s six shots on target.

— A.J. Jankowski

Knights salvage split with OT win

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers and Lafayette field hockey teams are no strangers to close contests with e a c h FIELD HOCKEY other.

The 1 LAFAYETTE Scarlet 2 Knights RUTGERS held a 17-13-1 series advantage coming into the matchup, and after a frantic second half yesterday, were able to best the Leopards, 2-1.

The win marked the second straight overtime win on the Banks against Lafayette.

Junior forward Nicole Gentile provided the game-winning tally and registered her seventh goal of the season less than four minutes into the overtime period.

The score also marked the fourth straight game in which the junior found the back of the cage.

“It’s just another big win for us,” Gentile said. “It’s another confidence builder. It’s going to bring us to another big game and hopefully another big win.”

The game entered overtime after a wild second half, in which both teams struggled to retain possession.

Early on in the half, the Knights (4-8, 1-2) posted four straight penalty corners, but failed to convert on any of the oppor tunities.

The game turned to a hectic struggle for possession not long after, as each team moved up and down the field at will.

“As ugly as the game was, we need to learn how to win these games, and I’m happy with the outcome,” said head coach Liz Tchou.

“I didn’t think we made the adjustments we needed to. I didn’t feel

like they adjusted to what they wanted them to adjust to.”

Lafayette (4-5) kicked off the game’s scoring with an unassisted score from the stick of sophomore Deanna DiCroce, the team’s leading scorer this season.

The Knights turned the ball over just outside the circle, resulting in a steal and open lane to the cage for DiCroce.

Rutgers got on the board 20 minutes later, when freshman Lisa Patrone had a shot deflected off a Lafayette stick from the top of the circle that fluttered into the top right of the cage.

The score came off of one of Rutgers’ seven penalty corners, marking the second straight game in which Rutgers led in that statistical category.

“They don’t know how good they are yet,” Tchou said. “Every player has to have the belief in themselves throughout the game.”

Freshman goalkeeper Sarah Stuby recorded her best game of the season, as the walk-on made five saves and allowed just one goal.

The victory is the first for Stuby as a starter this season.

Statistically, the win against Lafayette was an evenly matched contest, as the Leopards only outshot the Knights, 11-9.

Against Georgetown on Friday, the same could not be said.

Rutgers dominated on the stat sheet, amassing 17 shots to just eight for the Hoyas and posting 15 penalty corners for the game.

Unfortunately for Tchou and her squad, the team could not convert on the surplus of opportunities, as the Knights fell, 4-3, in overtime to the Hoyas.

“We had so many opportunities attack-wise. We had a lot of corners and we were making the

goalie look good by putting the first shot right at her, not to say that she didn’t have a good game,” Tchou said. “It’s good that we’re getting those stats. It shows that we are improving in some aspects of our game and we’re getting shots off, but our ability to get our second and third shots off at the keeper was poor.”

Georgetown for ward Catherine Shugrue scored three of the goals for her squad, including the game winner off a rebound from sophomore goalkeeper Vickie Lavell.

Coming into the game, the underlying conference implications of the matchup were made clear and the Knights could have greatly improved their Big East Tournament chances with a win.

But don’t count them out just yet.

“I told [the team] that we just made it harder on ourselves to be able to make the tournament, but it’s not out of reach,” Tchou said. “That kind of game needs to be a pretty decisive victor y for us, looking at how we attacked them.”

The Knights continue their Big East schedule Friday on the Banks as the team welcomes No. 10 Louisville to town.

Though the squad dropped an important conference game, the win against Lafayette gives Rutgers momentum and room for growth heading into another huge Big East matchup.

“It’s definitely important that we keep having a win each weekend,” said senior co-captain Jenna Bull. “It was a tough loss the other day after the long overtime, and I think we were tired and it showed that we’re going to push through until we get what we want.”

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Shayna Longacre, who won All-Big East honors last season in the 100-yard breaststroke, took part in Rutgers’ Alumni & Parent Gala.

EVENT INTRODUCES NEW SWIMMERS TO RUTGERS PROGRAM The Rutgers swimming and diving team hosted its third annual SWIMMING Alumni & Parent Gala on Saturday as part of the Homecoming festivities. The event took place three hours before the football team’s 17-14 loss to Tulane and served as a banquet for the 2009 squad as well.

The gala marks the first action of the season for the Scarlet Knights, who next hit the pool for their annual Intrasquad Meet on Oct. 15 at the RU Aquatic Center.

The team heads into the 2010-11 campaign under the tutelage of new head coach Phil Spiniello, who took over the job on July 7 after athletic director Tim Pernetti declined to renew former head coach Chuck Warner’s contract. The Knights only have three meets away from the Banks this season and don’t leave the RU Aquatic Center until Nov. 13, when the squad faces off against West Virginia. The squad hosts the Rutgers Invitational on Jan. 21.

— Anthony Hernandez

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DeMaio sets assists record in Knights’ sweep

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Room atop the Rutgers women’s soccer scoring leaderboard got pretty thin yesterWOMEN’S SOCCER d a y , PROVIDENCE 1 when t h e RUTGERS 4 Scarlet Knights romped over Providence, 4-1, at Yurcak Field.

“We played very well in both halves,” said head coach Glenn Crooks. “We just had to review what was going well and shore up a couple things. It was certainly the best back-to-back games we’ve had all year.”

The Knights (8-5, 3-2) exploded for four second-half goals against the Friars (8-3-1, 2-2-1) after a scoreless first, sparked by junior Karla Schacher’s 54thminute tally. Senior midfielder Gina DeMaio hit the post on a cross, but Schacher was there for the rebound.

Redshirt freshman Jonelle Filigno scored less than four minutes later on a freak play.

The Mississauga, Canada, native took a point blank shot that Friars goalkeeper Caitlin Walker initially saved.

The ball then deflected off a Providence defender attempting to clear, but Filigno got the last touch before the ball found the back of the net.

The goal was Filigno’s first since a 3-0 win Sept. 5 at Bucknell.

“Before ever y game I just sort of shake it off. I want to start anew every game,” said Filigno, who registered seven shots yesterday in the victory.

“It’s been really frustrating since [Bucknell] because I’ve had so many opportunities and nothing has been going in. It wasn’t a great goal, but I’m happy I got one in.”

With the lead well in hand, DeMaio sent a corner kick in the 72nd minute into the box. The ball found sophomore April Price’s head, who buried the ball in the back of the net.

The match’s first three goals knotted Schacher, Filigno and

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Senior midfielder Gina DeMaio broke the Rutgers all-time assists record yesterday, when her corner kick found April Price for the third goal of the match. Jennifer Gibbons (1989-92) previously held the mark.

Price at four goals on the season, forcing a three-way tie for the Knights’ scoring lead.

The tally also distinguished DeMaio as Rutgers’ all-time assists leader with 28. Jennifer Gibbons (1989-92) previously held the assists record.

“Even as a team we kind of broke out this weekend,” DeMaio said. “We’re kind of hitting the right stride at the right time, so it’s been good.”

Senior Ashley Jones capped off the Knights’ scoring in the

80th minute, when she launched a shot outside the 18yard box that bent in under the top right post.

With the lead unquestioned, Crooks unloaded his bench as 27 Knights saw action in the victory over the Friars. Freshmen Kristen Bradley and Maria Gerew saw their first career playing time and junior netminder Casey Rupon got her first minutes of the season.

The Knights started the weekend on the right foot with a 2-0

blanking of visiting Connecticut, which owned a 14-1-4 record over Rutgers prior to Friday night.

“This is definitely the most complete game we’ve played,” said Crooks, who coached at Ridge High School during Rutgers’ previous win over the Huskies. “UConn is very good. I have seen two of their games this year and despite their record, they are fantastic. To neutralize a team like that in the way we did tonight was something to see.”

Schacher was the Knights’ catalyst, heading in a cross from Filigno in the eighth minute — Rutgers’ earliest goal this season.

DeMaio started the play with a long pass that found Filigno’s foot on the right sideline.

Schacher registered seven shots in total Friday, three of which went on net.

“I just felt like I had a lot of confidence [Friday], moving from the midfield to the forward,” Schacher said. “It takes awhile to get used to a new position, but it felt like [Friday] I was definitely on.”

DeMaio was also responsible for the Knights’ second goal, when a long finesse pass found Price, who buried a shot in the back of the net in the 67th minute.

Price’s goal marked the first time since a Sept. 5 win over Bucknell that Rutgers scored twice in a contest.

The scoring lead ballooned to a three-way tie after Price’s goal, as Price, Schacher and Filigno were stalemated three goals apiece prior to yesterday’s match against the Friars.

“Honestly we don’t talk about [goal leaders] at all,” Schacher said. “It’s just, ‘Let’s go out there and get the job done.’

That’s our mentality.”

Friday night’s Big East showdown marked just the first regular season meeting between the two schools at Yurcak Field since 2002. Because of the Big East’s divisional alignment, UConn and Rutgers have met only 19 times since the Knights’ 1987 victory. “[UConn head coach] Lenny [Tsantiris] is all about the game is and all about how the game’s played,” Crooks said. “I will always enjoy the matches against UConn because they’re good soccer matches.

“We’ve talked about scheduling independently. It would actually be an independent game on one of those odd years, so I’m sure that would happen.”

The Knights begin a fourgame road stretch Friday when the team travels to Chicago to take on DePaul prior to a pivotal showdown with No. 5 Notre Dame.

Improved defense overlooked in RU’s resurgence

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

CAMERON STROUD

Senior Ashley Jones tallied her second goal of the season yesterday in the Knights’ 4-1 victory over visiting Providence.

Lost in the offensive outburst last weekend for the Rutgers women’s soccer team was KNIGHT the steady NOTEBOOK per for mance of the defensive back four.

Starters Lindsey McNabb, Allie Hambleton, Shannon Woeller and Rheanne Sleiman combined to allow only one goal in their past four games, when the Scarlet Knights went 3-1. Providence’s late goal yesterday came against late-game replacements and backup keeper Casey Rupon.

During that time, Woeller moved inside to the center back position in place of earlier starter Julie Lancos, who saw minimal action last weekend.

“Shannon plays center back for the Canadian National Team, so I think that’s where her natural position is,” said assistant coach Meghan Ryan, who anchored the Knights’ defense in 2006, when

the team set a school record with 16 shutouts. “She does a good job of calming down the back line.”

McNabb came off the bench and started the Knights’ past two matches at left back. The Montville, N.J., native saw significant minutes this season and supplanted freshman Tori Leigh as the first defender off the bench.

A natural left footer, McNabb took corners from the left side of the pitch last weekend when senior Gina DeMaio was not on the field.

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last weekend were the team’s most in consecutive games during the 2010 season.

Crooks’ team tallied a combined five goals in early September matches against Princeton and Bucknell, but bigtime goals against Big East teams take precedence, Crooks said.

“You look at Portland and Washington [matches from the Nike Invitational] … those were good [matches],” he said.

“We played well that weekend up there, but honestly we played better soccer this week-

end. It’s the best soccer we’ve played all year.”

Yesterday’s 4-1 victory was the biggest win over a Big East opponent since a Sept. 22, 2008, 5-0 thrashing of Villanova.

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erupted after senior Ashley Jones’ screaming shot yesterday outside the 18-yard box found the back of the net.

The goal was Jones’ second of the season and first since a 3-0 win Sept. 5 against Bucknell.

“That was an Ashley Jones goal,” Crooks said. “Even though she scored earlier in the year against Bucknell, [it was] a Big East game, bigger stage. The whole place erupted. It was really nice.”

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freshman Jonelle Filigno only three minutes and 16 seconds yesterday to find the back of the net after junior Karla Schacher’s initial score.

The two goals marked the shortest span between scores for the Knights since an Aug. 25, 2009 win over Maryland-Baltimore County.

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1 0 7

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3 7 7

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Final 17 14

OUT

Green Wave’s late interception spoils Knights’ comeback hopes in Homecoming loss where Savage goes down

BY SAM HELLMAN CORRESPONDENT

If Saturday’s game against Tulane is what it’s like when Rutgers students come home, it’s no wonder so FOOTBALL many Jersey kids end up going out of state.

On Homecoming against a Conference USA opponent without a healthy quarterback, the Rutgers football team was admittedly unprepared and completely embarrassed when the clock struck zero in a stunning 17-14 loss.

“It’s on me,” said head coach Greg Schiano immediately after taking the podium in his postgame press conference. “I was unable to get our team ready to go, unable to get over a tough loss, I guess, against North Carolina, unable to get our team to realize how hard this game would be. So as the head coach, everything, that falls on me.”

The lowlight of the humiliation came on a Tulane trick play for a touchdown, when Joe Kemp lined up at quar terback, threw a backwards pass, then caught a pass-back across the field for a 24-yard touchdown and a 17-7 lead.

The worst part: The Scarlet Knights knew the play.

“We watched that play on tape, talked about that play, ran the play in practice,” said senior defensive end Alex Silvestro. “We just didn’t execute. It was a complete defensive failure.”

The offense was as ineffective as ever in the first half. With the exception of a perfectly executed 91-yard touchdown run by sophomore Mohamed Sanu — the longest in school histor y — Rutgers mustered just 65 yards in the first half.

Already battling injured ribs, sophomore quarterback Tom Savage was ineffective — completing just two of five passes and eating three sacks — before leaving the game with an injury to his throwing hand.

True freshman Chas Dodd handled the duties efficiently in Savage’s stead but did not perform

GAME 4

Tulane senior safety Alex Wacha (8) celebrates his game-clinching interception on Chas Dodd’s third-and-20 pass as Rutgers attempted to drive, trailing by three with less than a minute to play. It was Dodd’s first career interception after he came on for an injured Tom Savage.

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BIG EAST SCORES Vanderbilt Connecticut

JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

KEY STATS 21 40

Florida Int. Pittsburgh

17 44

Florida Atlantic South Florida

3 31

KNIGHT NOTEBOOK

LEADERS PASSING CHAS DODD, RU 13-29, 176 YDS, 1 TD, 1 INT RUSHING MOHAMED SANU, RU 9 CAR, 121 YDS, 1 TD RECEIVING CASEY ROBOTTOM, TUL 6 REC, 71 YDS

TULANE RUTGERS

Total Yds 245 353

Pass 208 205

Rush 37 148

EXTRA POINT The number of total yards for sophomore Mohamed Sanu as both a receiver and the Wildcat quarterback. Sanu broke a schoolrecord 91-yard touchdown run on the second play from scrimmage and caught five passes for 70 yards and a score on Chas Dodd’s first touchdown pass.

191

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Joe Lefeged stood in the back of the end zone, thinking he wrote another chapter in his already memorable senior season.

But after the cannon exploded and confetti fell from the second deck, a yellow flag also became apparent lying at the 30-yard line. Rather than a 95yard kickoff return for a touchdown, a holding penalty on sophomore

Marcus Cooper brought the play back and started the Rutgers football team’s drive at the 18-yard line.

Four plays later the Scarlet Knights punted, and five plays after that Tulane scored a touchdown to turn what could have been a 14-3 Rutgers lead into a 107 Tulane advantage.

After reviewing the tape, head coach Greg Schiano

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