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The Rutgers football team unveiled its new look, pro-style offense last night in a beatdown of North Carolina Central, accumulating 347 total yards and 34 points in a 48-0 victory at High Point Solutions Stadium.

Governor bans bath salts after student’s death

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

class of 2016 will never know the University without it,” Bray said.

A small café will also serve as an area where students can grab a cup of coffee or snack in between classes, he said. Other items such as University hats and T-shirts will also be sold at the location.

Brother Jimmy’s BBQ, a flat screenfilled sports bar and grill, will occupy restaurant space in the bottom level of the building, Paladino said.

Bray believes that with time, the Gateway Transit Village will grow to become as popular as local restaurants like the Grease Trucks and Stuff Yer Face.

Gov. Chris Christie signed “Pamela’s Law” into legislation last week, which will ban the sale, possession and use of bath salts, a synthetic drug that affects users in a similar way to methamphetamines, in New Jersey.

The law is named after Pamela Schmidt, a University student who was murdered in March.

Authorities believe her boyfriend William Parisio Jr., who was under the influence of bath salts at the time of her murder, to be the suspect.

The law places six chemicals commonly found in the bath salts under the category of Schedule I Controlled Dangerous Substances (CDS). The chemicals were available for sale in convenience stores and smoke shops as late as April of this year.

While not every package of bath salts contains all of these substances — synthetic derivatives of the federal Schedule I CDS cathinone — they were found at least to have one of the chemicals.

“This action, coupled with our efforts statewide to raise awareness of the danger of these and other drugs, will give law enforcement the tools they need to properly address the proliferation of these drugs and help us to ensure that senseless additional damage is not caused to families in our state,” Christie said in a statement.

Assemblywoman Linda Stender (DMiddlesex/Somerset/Union), who sponsored the bill to outlaw bath salts since March, was happy to see Christie sign Pamela’s Law. “I applaud the governor for signing the law — it is common sense legislation to criminalize a substance that has very serious effects on people who use them,” she said. “We’ve seen sadly, firsthand in the death of Pamela, what happens when somebody uses these drugs.”

Stender said our only defense against the drug is to outlaw it on the state level and hope the federal government follows suit.

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When finished, the Gateway Transit Center at the intersection of Easton Avenue and Somerset Street will serve as a multipurpose structure for both New Brunswick residents and the University community.

Gateway project steps closer to completion

BY GLEN GABRIEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Anyone walking along the College Avenue campus may notice a towering crane by the Gateway Transit Village.

The large structure, which workers began constructing in 2009, is more than halfway complete.

The nearly 300-foot high structure will ser ve various purposes for residents and University students in downtown New Brunswick, said Bill Bray, city spokesman.

One of those uses will be a nine-level parking garage, which is almost complete and set to open sometime this

November, Bray said. The nearly 685 parking spaces will offer an alternative to the on-street parking on Easton Avenue and Hamilton Street.

“Those working, going to school or just getting a bite to eat in the city will now have a place to park their car so they can walk around,” Bray said.

A multileveled bookstore will also be located at the foot of the complex where students will have the chance to purchase books for next fall, said Christopher Paladino, president of the New Brunswick Development Corporation (DEVCO).

“Incoming first-year students will be buying their textbooks from the new [book]store for years to come, and the

Garden State support for Obama’s re-election lowers

BY GABRIELA SLOMICZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With speculation for the 2012 presidential election on the rise, a recent Eagleton Institute of Politics poll found that voters have become less suppor tive of President Barack Obama’s reelection, and Republicans are not fully satisfied with the candidate choices available.

Results show that 43 percent of the 615 registered New Jersey voters polled think Obama should be reelected, a 5 percent decrease from a Februar y 2011 poll.

“I think a lot of people are unhappy with politics and political leaders. They are tr ying to express their frustrations about the economy and how they believe things are not working in Washington,” said David Redlawsk, poll director.

Results also show 31 percent of Republican voters are not satisfied with the GOP field, while only 3 percent are very satisfied.

“The significant thing about New Jersey is that Obama won the state easily in 2008. If he is having trouble here, he is having trouble ever ywhere,” Redlawsk said.

The poll reports that only 7 percent of Republicans want to see Obama serve a second term, a 50 percent decrease from those previously polled.

“I do not believe [Obama] has fulfilled any of the campaign promises he made, nor do I think he is helping the countr y through tough economic times,” said Kevin Cohen, 35, of Toms River.

“He lacks the leadership skills I thought he had when he promised to stop bi-partisan politics in Washington.”

Though Obama takes criticism from both par ties, some voters said he is not solely to blame for the countr y’s problems.

“I feel the president did not have adequate time, a cooperative legislative branch or adequate funds,” said Matthew Malagiere, 28, of Freehold. “It takes

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Study unveils caffeine’s potential to grind cancer risks

BY YASHMIN PATEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

A recent collaborative research study between the University and the University of Washington found further evidence that caffeine reduces the risk of skin cancer.

Ultraviolet-light induced skin cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers in the United States, and researchers have found the enzyme ATR in caffeine to be the key reason caffeine helps lower the risk of skin cancer, said Allan Conney, director of the University’s Susan Lehman Cullman Laboratory for Cancer Research.

“There are more than two million cases of sunlight-induced skin cancer in this country per year, which is more than all the other cancers in this country combined, and it’s been increasing,” he said.

Conney, who is a professor of chemical biology, said enzyme ATR is one of the critical components in caffeine that makes it capable of preventing skin cancer.

“It’s an enzyme that inhibits proliferation, it allows time for DNA repair, and that’s a good thing,” he said. “If that enzyme is inhibited, you result in more killing of ultraviolet-light damaged cells, so that when they’re killed they can no longer at a later time become cancerous.”

The study, which is funded predominately by the National Institute of Health, was the result of 10 years of research into the effects of black tea and green tea on UV-light,

non-melanoma-induced skin cancer in mice, Conney said.

“We found that decaffeinated tea did not work because the [caffeine] was active in inhibiting ultraviolet-light inducing skin cancer,” he said. “The decaf feinated tea was not active, and adding back pure caf feine inhibited ultravioletlight induced skin cancer.”

Further evidence found that caffeine could act as a sunscreen and help protect against the sun’s harmful UV rays, Conney said.

The study suggested caffeine given to mice orally or applied topically to the skin showed signs in preventing skin cancer.

Carmen Sotomayor, a School of Arts and Science sophomore, said she would choose caffeine as an alternative to other sunscreen products to help protect her from skin damage and ultimately, skin cancer.

“If it would benefit me from skin cancer, then sure, why not?” she said. “If the coffee beans were put in a way that I could actually lather it on my skin instead of like lathering coffee beans all over my skin, then yeah.”

Itcel Barroso, a School of Arts and Science first-year student, said he would also prefer using caffeine as an alternative to sun block if it were proven to be more effective in protecting against skin cancer.

“I would to protect myself,” he said. “Whichever one [sunscreen or caffeine] is more effective, I would use.”

Bari Kaplan, a School of Arts and Science first-year student,

POLL SHOWS NEW JERSEYAN VOTERS’ PREFERENCE FOR TOMATOES OVER CORN New Jerseyans prefer the state’s tomatoes to the state’s corn, according to a poll conducted by the Eagleton Institute of Politics.

Fifty-two percent of registered voters prefer tomatoes, while only 30 percent prefer corn, said David Redlawsk, director of the Rutgers-Eagleton, in a University media relation press release. Fifteen percent of voters could not make a decision, finding the choice too difficult.

“The Garden State is justifiably famous for both, but New Jerseyans of all stripes say tomatoes beat corn,” he said. “The strong preference for tomatoes may also explain why it is the New Jersey state vegetable, even though it is a fruit.”

The study was conducted between Aug. 9 and Aug. 15, and polled 615 registered voters with both landlines and cellphones, according to the press release.

The poll also found that residents from southern New Jersey prefer tomatoes by a larger margin than their northern counterparts, 31 percent to 15 percent.

There was also a disparity in preference along political party lines. Republicans prefer tomatoes by a larger margin than Democrats. Voters for Gov. Chris Christie in the 2009 election preferred tomatoes 57 percent to 23 percent, while voters for former Gov. Jon S. Corzine only preferred tomatoes 48 percent to 34 percent.

“If we understood why Democrats and Republicans differ on how much they like corn, we might have a better handle on New Jersey politics,” Redlawsk said in the press release. “As it is, the differences seem to be driven primarily by young people and AfricanAmericans, who not only are more likely to be Democrats, but who apparently have more interest in corn than the average voter.”

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School of Arts and Sciences senior Mark Libatique drinks a cup of tea in front of the Rutgers Student Center, as evidence suggests caffeine from tea can act like a sunscreen against the sun’s UV rays.

was skeptical about the recent study and wanted additional reassurance from the media before lathering her skin with caffeine as a substitute for a bottle of sun block.

“I probably wouldn’t use it unless I heard about it on TV or something — I would still use sun block,” she said. “I would want a product out

there that was good and stuff before I just start using it on my own.”

The completed research study took place at the University of Washington, based on the ideas researchers at both universities developed collaboratively, Conney said.

With millions of people being diagnosed with skin cancer, there

is hope that this newfound research will help prevent UV ray cancers from growing in the future, he said.

“Hopefully either caf feine or some derivative based of f of this research will ultimately inhibit the formation of sunlight induced cancers,” Conney said.

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DEATH: Schmidt’s family hopes for federal ban of drug continued from front “While we wait for the federal government to take action, it’s important to do what we can,” she said. “There was such heartbreak for two families as a result of the use of these bath salts. We want to prevent that heartbreak for anyone else.”

Schmidt was two months away from graduating from the School of Arts and Sciences with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and planned to attend the School of Management and Labor Relations for her master’s degree in human resources before she died, said Werner Schmidt Jr., Pamela’s father.

“We were so proud of her. I always told her she was really going to be something,” he said.

“I saw so much potential and great things for her in her future, [but] the way it was taken away doesn’t make any sense.

Hopefully the law will prevent other families from [experiencing] the difficulty we are.”

The University issued the diplomas to Pamela Schmidt

posthumously, he said.

Werner Schmidt Jr. and his wife, Marcy, are also very proud of the scholarship named after their daughter, the Pamela Sue Schmidt Award for Outstanding Service to the Community, which will be given to a senior graduating from the University and entering the School of Management and Labor Relations.

“Every year at graduation her name will be read off and her legacy will live on,” he said.

Similarly, Werner Schmidt Jr. feels his daughter’s memor y will live on through Pamela’s Law as well.

“As a father, you always wish this could have been done sooner so my daughter would still be here,” he said. “If it can save another senseless death in the future from happening the way this happened, then I support it wholeheartedly.”

To this day, the reality of his daughter’s death still feels out of reach for Werner Schmidt Jr. and his wife.

“Six months later, and it feels unbelievable,” he said. “How could something like that happen? But we feel blessed to have the law and the scholarship to remember her by.”

U NIVERSITY PROJECT: Construction creates jobs for local workers continued from front Joseph White, a University alumnus who lives in Edison, agrees with Bray and said the new Gateway Transit Village will enable the University to help students as well as improve its own reputation.

“I know that as long as projects like this exist, Rutgers is only going to become bigger and better,” White said.

“Buildings like this give the school an image, one that’s going to be bringing in prospective students.”

Bray thinks the project had a positive influence on the lives of local construction companies and workers.

In tough economic times the Gateway Project has ser ved as a source of jobs for constr uction workers in the local area that may other wise have been without work, he said.

SUPPORT: Independent backing for president decreases continued from front more than four years to fix the problems of a nation, and the Republican majority in Congress seems to say no to ever ything the president said.”

To a statement on the poll that read, “The government in Washington no longer works,” 69 percent of voters polled agreed, 24 percent disagreed, and 7 percent were unsure.

“I don’t necessarily think [the government] is dysfunctional. I do think they could do things better, but I think that they’re doing what they can with the resources they are given,” said Yesenia Perez, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Independents have also lost support for Obama, with only 33 percent saying he deserves a second term.

“I think that this par ticular type of voter is unsure as to who to take his frustrations out on,” Redlawsk said. “The president is the most obvious person.”

The poll also showed voter impressions of the president and of Washington, D.C. were related to their suppor t of Obama’s reelection, as 88 percent of people who have an unfavorable view say Obama does not deserve a second term.

Of those polled, 12 percent were uncertain about their impression of the president and out of those voters, 24 percent support Obama’s reelection while 43 percent do not.

“In some cases, like both Obama’s and [Gov. Chris] Christie’s, people like the man better than the job he is doing,” Redlawsk said.

“Suppor ters want to feel good about the person they are voting for. How people respond to the candidate has a role in the turnout.”

Of those who believe the president understands people like them, 72 percent said he deser ves to be reelected.

Eighty-six percent of those who said Obama does not understand them do not support a second term. “[Obama] went through life in the U.S. as a middle-class American, so I think he understands the lifestyle and struggles

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M The Gateway Transit Village will continue to produce jobs as businesses, including the University bookstore, open up and begin hiring staff, he said.

With the structure stretching all the way from the foot of College Avenue to the train stop, the gateway will serve a dual purpose for the workforce of New Brunswick, Paladino said.

Due to the Gateway Transit Village housing’s close proximity to the New Brunswick railroad station, Bray believes residents and workers from outside should have an easier time commuting to and from New Brunswick.

The structure, which stands more than 600,000 feet, will also include space for 192 residential units for housing, Paladino said. The completed project will include 42 condos and 150 rental apartments priced at the market price.

Of the residential units, 80 percent will be sold at the market rate, while the other 20 percent will be affordable housing units to accommodate the working force of New Brunswick, with

condos starting at $250,000, Paladino said.

The project is estimated at $150 million, and Bray said it would appeal to University students, residents and those working within New Brunswick. He also said the project would build upon the past success of growth in the city.

“I’m excited to see New Brunswick changing and growing,” said Jim Cray, 45, of Hillsborough, who commutes into New Brunswick for work. “In the years I’ve worked in the area I’ve seen the skyline build up around me.”

The Gateway will stand as the tallest building in New Brunswick and will offer residents and those in the bookstore’s reading room a view of the Old Queen’s campus through a large glass window, Paladino said.

A large clock, adorned with two sets of the University’s name, will hang on Oct. 15 where residents and students may view it from College Avenue, Paladino said.

many people have,” said Winnie Zhang, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

Some voters are taking a more extreme view of the administration, as 15 percent of voters polled see the capital as un-American, down 10 percent from the September 2010 poll, and 29 percent see the president as a socialist.

Michael Stafford, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, disagreed.

“Federal workers losing their jobs because the government gave tax cuts to billionaires and bailouts to power ful banks in the hope that the private market will suppor t and stimulate job growth is as far from socialist as a policy can get,” he said.

Republican voters were asked about their preference of Republican presidential candidates, with 40 percent unable to name a candidate.

Of those who could, candidates Mitt Romney and Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) had around the same percentage of supportive voters.

Only 6 percent of voters polled named Gov. Chris Christie as their

preference and 5 percent responded with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).

Some voters, however, hesitate to make a decision yet.

“I think that it is too early to tell. [The candidates] are blaming President Obama as much as he blamed President [George W.] Bush,” Cohen said. “To me, the blame game needs to stop in place of viable solutions and good leadership.”

Cohen said he is looking for leadership in the presidential candidates. “[I want] someone who is going to be honest and not give empty promises. If they have big ideas for change, that’s great, but I’m hoping for some followthrough for a change,” Perez said.

Zhang also said she wants a candidate who follows through with their goals.

“I want a president to stand up for the rights of the workers, the middle class, the poor and those who have been made unemployed by the financial collapse,” Staf ford said. “I want a president to see that if he helps the workers than ever yone benefits.”

Voters agree — 69%

Voters disagree — 24%

Voters unsure — 7% Source: Eagleton Institute of Politics GRAPHIC BY TAYLERE PETERSON / MANAGING EDITOR

A recent Eagleton Institute of Politics poll asked voters if they agree with the statement, “The government in Washington no longer works.”

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Clothing drive warms Ecuadorian girls’ hearts

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girls are also looking for their comfort, as well as attempting to fit in.”

Forty-five young girls in an The pajama drive aimed to Ecuadorian orphanage may rest a reshape the orphanage as the little easier fall with a summer’s place the young girls can call collection of pajamas they received home and can experience personthis week from the Foundation for al development and growth, along International Medical Relief of with basic shelter, food and Children (FIMRC). schooling until high school, FIMRC, a nonprofit organiza- Atocha said. tion that gives students the opporNguyen said she first heard tunity to offer humanitarian aid about the orphanage’s need for abroad, shifted its medical focus pajamas through Atocha, a friend to aid girls in Escuela Hogar del whose brother is currently workPerpetuo Socorro, who seek not ing on a mission trip at a semionly shelter and food — but also nary in the country. care, said Vivian Nguyen, FIMRC “It first star ted with just our global initiative chair. family but then it later expand“We typically look to provide ed to having FIMRC help out health care for underprivileged and get students and other children, but with this pajama families to donate used pajadrive for girls in Ecuador, we pro- mas that are still in relatively vided them with good condition,” more than just Atocha said.

“But [the girls] that — we providNguyen said ed them with comupon learning also strive for fort,” said about the pajama the normalcy Nguyen, a School drive, she of Arts and believed it was a in social or Sciences junior. unique and imporFIMRC memcause, personal behaviors.” tant bers usually go on because it was SNIGDHA KANAKAMEDALA trips overseas to s o m e t h i n g FIMRC Vice President of help underdevelFIMRC was unfaCommunity Outreach oped and impovermiliar with. ished communi“It was great ties in an attempt to provide both that we could help out girls in community and clinical work, but need feel comfortable in their this was the first time they donat- own shoes, as they’re going ed something other than health through changes,” she said. “It care items, she said. was a real eye-opener that shows The student organization how even people in impoverished chose to donate pajamas because countries strive for normalcy.” the girls do not have enough Already having sent their first funding to purchase comfortable batch of pajamas to Ecuador, clothes, besides their school uni- FIMRC is waiting on sending the forms, to wear in the strong pending collection as they bring Ecuadorian heat, said Ernest the drive to an end.

Mario School of Pharmacy junior “We will definitely try to conMelissa Atocha, who introduced tinue working with the school the idea for the drive to FIMRC. and helping out the girls in “At first, it seemed odd that Ecuador, but for now we are closthey would request for pajamas ing up this pajama drive as a sum— that doesn’t really occur to us, mer endeavor,” Nguyen said. but they also strive for the norAlthough FIMRC decided to malcy in social or personal behav- end the pajama drive with the iors,” said Snigdha donations they received, Kanakamedala, FIMRC vice pres- Kanakamedala, a School of Arts ident of community outreach. and Sciences senior, said she The girls range from ages six hopes they will continue to work to 18 and most of them are girls with the orphanage throughout who were abandoned by their the year to provide other basic parents or guardians due to their supplies as well. economic situation, or are victims “I’m really excited to see of domestic violence and sexual where this goes, and I hope that assaults, Atocha said. people would keep coming up “We often think that people in with more ideas so that we can need just require food, shelter continue to help out people in and medical care. So we try to need — whether it be in just the provide them with that,” she said. next community or in a whole dif“It doesn’t occur to us that these ferent country,” she said.

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UNIVERSITY STUDENT ONE OF FIVE TO WIN SCHOLARSHIP Sa’De Alston, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, was named the 2011 winner of the Flip Wilson Memorial Scholarship endowed for journalism students at five American universities.

Alston, who is a dean’s list student, is a member of the Chi Alpha Epsilon honor society and is currently studying three majors — journalism and media studies, sociology and Africana studies, according to the School of Communication and Information website.

“I am a reality TV addict and pop culture junkie, which served purposes during my recent internship at Clear Channel Radio-digital, working in their editorial and programming department as an editorial assistant,” she said in a statement.

She works as an RU-TV segment producer and was an onair host of a 90.3 FM radio show named, “The Free Experience”, according to the site.

Last year’s scholarship was awarded to Jason Scharch, who graduated this past May and is currently working as a production assistant at AOL Studios in New York City.

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Art After Hours returns tonight from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus, to celebrate the opening of “Two Venetian Masters: Canaletto and Domenico Tiepolo Etchings from the Arthur Ross Foundation” and offer a broader view of Venice, Italy. Art After Hours is the popular evening social series held on first Wednesdays from September through July, inviting visitors to explore the galleries, as well as enjoy a variety of related entertainment. Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for adults over 65 and free for museum members, University students, faculty and staff with identification and children under 18. For more information, call (732) 932-7237 ext. 610 or visit the museum’s website www.zimmerlimuseum.rutgers.edu.

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There will be a change in destination class day. Students should attend Monday classes.

Come to the Involvement Fair to sign up for a variety of student organizations from 3 to 7 p.m. on Voorhees Mall on the College Avenue campus.

Today is the last day to drop a class without a “W” grade via WebReg or in person at the Undergraduate Registrars Office at the ASB Building Room 200B on Busch campus.

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Today is the last day to add a class.

King Of The Couch Tournaments will host “LeGrand Bowl 2011,” a video game tournament for Eric LeGrand at 11 a.m. on the Busch Student Center. The tournament will have participants play Madden 12 and NCAA 12 on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Students can join the tournament for $10 with their student identification while non-students will pay $20. For more information visit legrandbowl.com or call (201) 981-3537.

Do you have what it takes to be the next Rutgers Homecoming Idol? Upload your two-minute video to YouTube and then email your video link to homecoming@winants.rutgers.edu and let the battle begin. Videos are due by 11:59 p.m. Contestants must be 18 or older to enter this contest. A group of semifinalists will be entered in Homecoming Idol’s online voting, scheduled from Sept. 29 to Oct. 3. The top contestants will be selected from that group and will compete at the Homecoming Festival on Oct. 15 on Busch campus before the football game.

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The Fourth Annual Skin Workshop, entitled, “Skin Reconstruction for Wounds, Burns and Deep Skin Trauma” will take place at 1 p.m. in the Life Sciences Building on 145 Bevier Road in Piscataway. The Rutgers Cleveland Clinic Consortium of Armed Forces Institute for Regenerative Medicine (RCCC-AFIRM) will endorse the event, which draws more than 100 of the leading experts in skin healing and transdermal drug deliver y. Register online at www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=9891 80. For more information contact Christine Otto at cbmfrontdesk@dls.rutgers.edu or (732) 445-0488 ext. 40001.

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Rutgers Homecoming 2011 takes place this weekend.

Highlights include the Rutgers University vs. Navy football game, pregame tailgate, wings bowl, Rutgers Excellence in Alumni Leadership Awards, Young Alumni Celebration, Alumni Leaders Conference and a historical walking tour.

For more information and the Homecoming schedule, visit www.ralumni.com/homecoming.

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NATION

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Some East Coast towns still lack electricity after storm THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WARWICK, R.I. — Cold showers. Meals in the dark.

Refrigerators full of spoiled food.

No TV. No Internet. Up and down the East Coast, patience is wearing thin among the hundreds of thousands of people still waiting for the electricity to come back on after Hurricane Irene knocked out the power last weekend.

“It’s like ‘Little House on the Prairie’ times,” said Debbie McWeeney, who went to a Red Cross shelter in Warwick to pick up food and water after everything in her refrigerator went bad. “Except I’m not enjoying it at all.”

With the waters receding across much of the flood-stricken region, homeowners are mucking out their basements and dragging soggy furniture to the curb. But the wait for power drags on, with an estimated 895,000 homes and businesses still without electricity, down from a peak of 9.6 million.

And criticism of the utility companies is mounting. In Rhode Island, a state senator is calling for an investigation, and Massachusetts’ attorney general is demanding information from utilities on how they are dealing with the crisis, including how many crews are in the field and their response time.

The industry has defended its efforts, noting it warned the public that a storm like Irene was bound to cause prolonged outages and pointing out that flooding and toppled trees caused severe damage to utility poles, substations and other equipment.

Tim Horan, National Grid president for Rhode Island, said crews from as far as Kansas and Idaho are working 16-hour shifts, and “we’re committed to getting this resolved as soon as possible.”

In the meantime, people are taking cold showers or washing up at shelters, using camp stoves and grills to cook, competing for ice at the grocery store and relying on generators and handcranked radios. The late-summer weather, at least, has been mercifully cool across much of the East Coast.

Many homes that depend on wells have no water because they have no electricity to pump it. Relief agencies have been handing out drinking water. And a high school in Exeter, R.I., opened its gym to let people shower.

In some places, people on oxygen or other medical devices that require electricity have been taken to shelters that have power.

Irene has been blamed for at least 46 deaths in 13 states. With the streets drying out in hard-hit New Jersey, some towns faced

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Last weekend’s Hurricane Irene is responsible for at least 46 deaths in 13 states and hundreds of thousands without power.

new problems, namely trash bins overflowing with waterlogged debris. In Vermont, with roads slowly reopening, the National Guard’s airlift of food, water and other supplies to once cutoff towns was winding down.

In Foxborough, Mass., about 90 percent of the town’s 7,820 National Grid customers were still without power Tuesday afternoon when the lights went on at Gillette Stadium, where a New England Patriots exhibition game was scheduled for

Thursday night. That brought complaints from some customers, but National Grid denied the football team received special treatment and said one substation was simply not as badly damaged as another.

Politicians have been inundated with complaints from people who say it is taking too long.

Rhode Island state Sen. John J. Tassoni Jr. on Thursday called on the state Public Utilities Commission to investigate National Grid.

“It is getting near to a week since the storm passed through our area and many Rhode Islanders are still without electricity,” he said. “I think we need to ask the company some very pointed questions about its preparation for storms and the speed of its response to them.”

William Br yan, deputy assistant secretar y of at the U.S. Energy Department, said it typically takes at least few days to restore power after a storm like Irene, and National Grid “has done a great job.

They ought to be commended for that. You are well ahead of the cur ve for restoration.”

Along the East Coast, deep exhaustion set in as work turned from pumping polluted floodwaters out of homes to keeping an eye out for looters, scavengers or more welcome visitors such as FEMA representatives and insurance adjusters.

In Rochelle Park, N.J., Nedra Visconti said the town had learned a lesson from Hurricane Floyd in 1999, when looters took what they wanted. This time, Visconti has seen several law enforcement officers checking IDs on some streets.

Nevertheless, she came out of her home to find someone trying to steal her husband’s tools from the piles of water-damaged belongings in their driveway.

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Once known as the Freedom Tower, the 1 World Trade Center stands to memorialize the lives lost in the 9/11 attacks. A memorial featuring waterfalls will open to the public on Sept. 12.

NYC to see completion of building THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero.

The site called a “hole in the ground” for years has cranes in the air, trains running underground and hundreds of trees planted around giant, man-made waterfalls to remember the dead of Sept. 11.

And the surrounding neighborhood — no longer just a financial district — is bursting with young families, new schools, a Whole Foods and a Barnes & Noble.

Tourists squint and point their cellphones at 1 World Trade Center, once known as the Freedom Tower.

“I’m kind of proud because I was here two weeks after 9/11 and this was a dust pit,” said Larr y Brancato, 59, of Wallingford, Conn, walking by ground zero. “It just shows that Americans have always had a can-do attitude.”

After years of inertia, and prolonged disputes between government agencies, insurer and a developer who had just taken out a 99-year lease on the towers when they were toppled, the development of the trade center is substantial, and the tallest tower can now be seen for miles.

“People can begin to see that this is no longer a hole in the middle of New York, but a real place is emerging,” said architect Daniel Libeskind, whose master plan serves as a blueprint for the site.

A memorial featuring waterfalls cascading into the footprints of the twin towers will open to the public on Sept. 12, a day after families see their loved ones’ names around the pools for the first time. The skyscraper formerly known as the Freedom Tower is growing by a story a week and now stands 1,000 feet above the skyline as the tallest building in lower Manhattan. A transit station and a second office tower also are taking shape.

As the trade center lay in smoking ruins in 2001, New Yorkers debated the future of the 16-acre superblock that the twin towers had dominated. Some wanted to rebuild the two 110story skyscrapers exactly as they had been. Others said that out of respect for the nearly 3,000 dead, the entire tract should be a memorial or a park.

Larry Silverstein, the developer who signed a lease on the twin towers on July 24, 2001, pushed to rebuild the 10 million square feet of office space he had lost. Civic groups pushed for a more neighborhood-friendly design than two monoliths on a concrete plaza.

Libeskind, who won a competition to become the site’s master planner, focused on the Freedom Tower, with an asymmetrical spire soared to the symbolic height of 1,776 feet and echoed the Statue of Liberty across the harbor. He set aside half the site for a memorial that left empty the spots where the destroyed towers stood, and set space aside for a performing arts center to merge culture and commerce.

Tensions were inevitable between Libeskind’s artistic vision and Silverstein’s desire for buildings that would draw tenants.

Now, Libeskind said, “the tensions are gone.”

World Trade hardly resembles Libeskind’s early drawings, but he called it “an impressive building.”

Designed by David Childs, its tapering form is symmetrical but retains the spire and the 1,776 feet. To guard against truck bombs, the bottom 20 floors will be windowless, reinforced concrete covered by glass. The base will house infrastructure like generators and air-conditioning systems.

Critics warned that 1 World Trade would be hard to fill. Who would work in a symbolically loaded building at a location that terrorists had attacked twice?

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer once called the Freedom Tower a white elephant.

It’s looking less like that now that Conde Nast has signed a lease to move its trendsetting magazines like Vogue, Glamour and Vanity Fair to 1 World Trade when the building opens in 2014.

Christopher Ward, the executive director of the Por t Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade center site, called the Conde Nast agreement “a phenomenal game changer.”

“The Conde Nast deal has really jump-started interest downtown,” Ward said.

Under a deal between Silverstein and the Por t Authority, the authority is building 1 World Trade Center on the northwest corner of the site; Silverstein wants to build three office towers on the east side of

the 16 acres. The first of Silverstein’s buildings, known as 4 World Trade, was up to 48 floors this week. Silverstein says the 947-foot tower designed by Japan’s Fumihiko Maki will be finished before the taller 1 World Trade, catty-cornered across the site.

The Port Authority, which lost its headquarters and 85 employees on Sept. 11, will move into the second tower rising at the site when it is complete. Silverstein says other “household name” tenants will follow.

With the economy nosediving and Silverstein and the Port Authority battling over who should finance two unbuilt towers — designed by architects Richard Rogers and Lord Norman Foster — the future of those buildings looked doubtful a couple of years ago.

An analysis prepared for the Port Authority in 2009 projected that there might be no market for a third tower at the site until 2030, much less the original five planned.

Silverstein and the authority agreed to a deal last year that will let Silverstein build his second skyscraper when he raises $300 million of private equity, leases out at least 400,000 square feet and obtains financing for the remaining cost of the tower. The third building under his control — the second tallest in the master plan — will be built when the market supports it.

Silverstein, who is 80, wants to see all of the buildings completed in his lifetime — and he says he will. He said he could get another tower up in 2015. “And if it all works out well,” he says, the last one could be up a year later.

Ward was slightly less optimistic, predicting that Silverstein’s towers might be completed by 2017 or 2018.

Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, said that despite the stillsputtering economy, there will be a demand for a new trade center.

The average age of New York City’s 500 million square feet of office space is nearly 70.

“Companies want fresh, new space,” Spinola said. And tax incentives intended to spur redevelopment after 2001 make the trade center cheaper than other Manhattan buildings.

Tax breaks also fueled residential growth, and the population of downtown Manhattan below Chambers Street — the area that encompasses the trade center — has doubled since 2001.

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EDITORIALS

Week in review: laurels and darts

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hy is it that “socialist” is the dirtiest word in politics these days? Opponents of President Barack Obama’s every move never hesitate to fling the word at the president in hopes of denigrating him in the eyes of the public — and it works surprisingly well. More recently, N.J. Representatives Donald Payne (D-10) and Frank Pallone (D-6) were accused of being members of the Democratic Socialists of America by a variety of political bloggers and pundits. Politifact.com quickly dispelled the rumors, but the fact remains — “socialism” is a slur in modern politics and using it as such reduces a nuanced system of theories and practices to an overly simplified swear word. We dart the people who engage in this sort of behavior, and we encourage those who do not understand what socialism is exactly to do some research on their own. *

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The University and the new bus operator, First Transit, introduced new and refurbished buses over the summer and along the way, presented students with a newly appreciated way of traveling between campuses. If only these buses made the trip all the way to New York City. The new vehicles have a scrolling marquee at the front and a pleasant voice announcing the stops — thus creating a better system for students with disabilities, as well as first-year students. According to First Transit spokesman Timothy Stokes, the new buses will benefit the University by lowering costs on fuel, parts and service. And while the buses fall short on serving sushi and having reclining seats, we appreciate what Jack Molenaar and the Department of Transportation Services have done. We applaud their signing an agreement with First Transit, and we give them a laurel for their actions. *

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According to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and Press, college plagiarism has hit a record high. Pew asked 1,055 college presidents about levels of plagiarism in their schools, and 55 percent of them responded that plagiarism increased over the last decade. The major culprit behind this rise seems to be the Internet, which 89 percent of the surveyed presidents cited as an important reason for the increased plagiarism.

What makes the Internet great, of course, is the ease of access it provides to a copious amount of information. However, students would do well to take care to not let the Internet do their learning for them.

If you are not going to do the work to better yourself, why go to college in the first place? We give students a dart for taking the easy way out. They end up hurting themselves in the end. *

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Have you ever wanted fine Mongolian dining at the swipe of a student ID? Perhaps freshly prepared pizza? The Daily Targum and its editors with meal plans can now kindly inform you of the newly renovated Livingston Dining Commons. The new facility replaces Tillett Dining Hall and is adjacent to the Livingston Student Center. The building features a contemporary design, consistent with the recent projects meant to renovate this previously avoided campus. And while most students may not have experienced this phenomenon firsthand, we would highly recommend it. The Daily Targum gives Livingston Dining Commons 5-out-of-5 stars as well as a laurel, and we are certain that if given the opportunity, the Michelin Guide would reward it with at least a star. *

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President Barack Obama’s uncle, Onyango Obama, is an illegal immigrant in the United States. He was also recently arrested for drunk driving in Framingham, Mass. Does any of this information matter? Well, not really — but there are a lot of media outlets reporting on it who would have you think otherwise. Obama’s uncle’s immigration status — and his poor decision to operate a vehicle while intoxicated — have nothing to do with the presidency, nor should detractors use it to insult the president or question his birthplace again. Really, the people who have been giving the story such high levels of attention are doing nothing more than grasping at straws.

We dart such people and hope to see a return to real issues as soon as possible.

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Textbook industry fails students

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ark said he education as well, when would buy the the students are getting textbooks himthe textbooks “for free.” self before the hurricane The textbooks are so strikes.

He strolled poorly written that many MARK KIM through the streets of New students never come to Brunswick, thinking about accept the simple idea of all the excitement the new semester would bring. lear ning by reading. Ever y idea must be He entered the bookstore and proceeded explained — another generation of people promptly to the basement, and then to the third whose educational experiences cease completeaisle. He snatched up his French textbook, took ly at graduation is engendered. a quick glimpse at the price tag and began to Can you, dear reader, imagine a classic textfrown — $148.35. Shortly thereafter he learned book, read by generation after generation? Most that the textbook contains a one-time online likely not, I would imagine: The typical textbooks access code and thus cannot be resold. Mark let you have in mind will perhaps run through a few out a big sigh, and slowly and hesitantly walked more editions and sink forever into oblivion. back upstairs.

There are such things, however, as classic textIt may be a little peculiar that I, Mark Kim, am books. Take “A Course of Pure Mathematics” by unhappy about buying a textbook. Being the big the British mathematician G. H. Hardy, for examnerd that I am, I have a tendency to hoard books. ple. Originally written in 1908, it is still one of the I must have spent close to $4,000 buying the textmost widely read introductor y college-level books — yes, textbooks — sitting mathematics textbook. College on my not-so-little bookshelf. mathematics curricula changed “Textbook writers Though a majority of them are substantially since then, and mathematics textbooks, plenty are, “Pure Mathematics” cannot be of our time at best, loosely connected to my used as a textbook for a course could learn a thing anymore. Even so, its popularity field of study. Then why must I, a lover of textbooks, cringe whenevamong students of mathematics or two from er I buy the textbooks for many of has not faded. my classes?

“Pure Mathematics” is the prodtheir predecessors.”

The answer is that many of uct of a time when there was barethem are simply not worthwhile ly a textbook market to speak of. purchases. Indeed, the state of the textbook marSince there was no such occupation as a textbook ket is atrocious. The prose in science textbooks is writer, each textbook was written by a writer. It not human-readable; in many humanities textwould appear the same standard of prose that books, the prose is marred by low-quality filler essay writers and novelists adhere to was expecttext surrounding the read-this-and-nothing-else ed of a textbook writer. As such, a substantial boldfaced sentences. Each new edition of an number of old textbooks were well-written, and it already horrendous textbook brings no improvewas not uncommon for several generations to ment but bears only a minor permutation in secshare the same basic textbooks. tion and page numbers, so that it can be force-fed Human knowledge is expanding more rapidly to new students. The prices are reaching heights than ever, and perhaps it is impossible for different every year, yet the highly specialized editorial generations to use the same textbooks. Each will staff who supposedly justifies this inflation lets require different kinds of knowledge, and new texteven the most inane mistakes slip through the books will have to be written. I do believe however, cracks. One cannot shake off the feeling that the that the textbook writers of our time could learn a powers that be are conspiring against him to pay thing or two from their predecessors. As the legan inordinate amount of money for a book he will endary mathematical expositor Paul Halmos wrote, never want to read.

“Mathematical writing is ephemeral, to be sure, but All is well, perhaps, if the professor actually if you want to reach your audience now, you must makes you use the textbook. All is well if you write as if for the ages.” Ideally, textbook writers of get to sell back the textbook at a reasonable any field should follow this dictum. price. The problem persists, however, even Mark Kim is a School of Arts and Sciences senior when money is not the issue. The abundance of majoring in mathematics with a minor in philosophy. low-quality textbooks af fects the lower-division

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U. spends too much money on football program Letter EDWARD REEP he Bergen Record reported on data during the summer compiled by Bloomberg about the finances of college football programs.

Specifically the newspaper looked at the University.

“Rutgers University spent more money on athletics than any other public institution in the six biggest football conferences during the 2009-2010 fiscal year” with “40 percent of sports revenue” coming “from student fees and the university’s general fund,” according to Bloomberg. It is the case that the football team is being substantially subsidized as tuition rises and academics lose funding.

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Suppor ters of the University’s decision to put large sums of money into football say that it will ultimately pay for itself with ticket sales, sponsorships and sports-related donations. The quintessential example of a school that profits off of its football program is the University of Texas at Austin, which, according to the Bergen Record, was actually able to use money generated by the athletics program to fund academics, a reversal of the University’s situation. The University has not made football profitable yet nor will it ever. The reasons for this have to do with the culture of our student body and the very location of our school.

We must recognize that a substantial portion of University

students have a college mentality that focuses primarily on career and education. We do not have the same concentration of “rah-rah” American good old boys who prioritize athletics that you would more easily find at a school in Texas or elsewhere in the South or Midwest.

“The football team is being ... subsidized as tuition rises.”

Regarding our school’s location, we should note that many of the most profitable and popular college football teams are in metropolitan areas that do not have any professional football

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teams, let alone two of them. For such metropolitan areas, oftentimes the enthusiasm and support that would go into professional teams goes instead to college teams. Just look at the sports section on the websites of any of Austin’s network news stations — they read like the sports section of the University of Texas’s newspaper. Why, though, would ever yday New Yorkers and New Jerseyans put substantial energy into suppor ting the Scarlet Knights when they already have the Jets and the Giants? As my father always said, the NFL is simply more entertaining.

Big-ticket sports are a losing venture for the University.

College athletics are simply not popular enough among the

students or the metropolitan area as a whole. This, however, is not a bad thing. The two best things about the University are its academically-oriented student body (relative to other schools) and its proximity to New York City, which provides a wealth of job opportunities. The University didn’t get the fantastic national reputation it has from sports. It attained said reputation by being a premiere educational and research institution located in a premiere part of the United States.

Edward Reep is a Rutgers Business School junior majoring in supply chain and marketing science with minors in business and technical writing and economics.

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Today's Birthday (09/02/11). Get your communications channels in gear, and issue a press release. Step onstage and deliver a fantastic performance. Every note falls in perfect harmony. Share the glory with your awesome team. Then celebrate with delicious treats. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today Today is an 8 — Things are flow- is an 8 — You're successful, even ing easily at home, and a slow if you make a few financial mismorning builds up to an aftertakes. There are many ways to noon with creativity in action, measure success. Change holds which produces positive results. good lessons. Use your charm.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — If you don't Today is a 9 — Take in more know how to do the next step, wealth than you spend, and it's easy to find out. Seek the anticipate a coming trend. funding; ask for what you want; You're in control, and a genius and get professional advice. All at planning now. Discover how turns out well. to make it happen.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Postpone Today is a 7 — You're very perromance for a day. Study valuable ceptive now. Pay attention to the skills, and your trajectory takes picky details to make the necesoff. Your partner has an answer sary tweaks that solve the probyou've been looking for. Reward lem. You're surrounded by love. your diligence with a meal.

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After operating predominantly out of the Wildcat formation last season, junior wideout Mohamed Sanu proved his worth on the outside last night in the Knights 48-0 thrashing of North Carolina Central. Sanu hauled in seven catches for 68 yards and a touchdown in the season opener.

ATTRACTION: Four backs split load home opener continued from back Jeremy Deering and redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison offered the first glimpse at a new pro-style offense under new coordinator Frank Cignetti.

Asked a month before the season what role Mohamed Sanu

would have in his new scheme, Cignetti dismissed that it was even a question.

“He’s a wide receiver,” Cignetti emphatically said.

The days of Sanu literally carr ying the offensive burden are gone.

The wide receiver that showed promise as a true freshman is back.

His 20-yard reception was the only interruption of the first Huggins-led scoring drive, and he

added his first touchdown catch of the year in the second quarter.

The 6-foot-2, 215-pounder used his size to lower his shoulder and deliver a bruising hit that led to extra yards on his 20-yard catch, then showed his agility with a spin move that got him into the end zone from 13 yards out.

Sanu is one of many big-bodied targets for sophomore quarterback Chas Dodd. The 6-foot-3 Mark Harrison, 6-foot-4 Tim Wright and

6-foot-6 Brandon Coleman also pulled in receptions in the scheme with multiple personnel groups.

Harrison remained a big-play threat after last year’s breakout season, pulling in a 34-yard catch.

Wright returned from last summer’s ACL tear to make his first career catch. And Coleman was a threat downfield, scoring on a 44yard pass from freshman quarterback Gary Nova in each of their debuts.

Once the offense provided the defense with a 21-0 advantage at halftime, the defense got in on the scoring.

Schiano’s unit scored each of the first two touchdowns out of the half, as junior defensive tackle Scott Vallone recovered a fumble in the end zone and junior safety Duron Harmon returned an interception for a 37-yard score.

At that point Rutgers likely already saw everything it needed.

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Ohio State self-repor ted the violations and petitioned the NCAA for their reinstatement, although the school is also considering additional sanctions against the players.

The recent actions add to a cur rent list of Buckeye suspensions, including four players who will miss the first five games of the season.

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unning back Chris Johnson ended his holdout yesterday and agreed to a four-year extension with the Tennessee Titans worth $53 million.

The deal guarantees $30 million and the extension will kick in after the remaining two years on Johnson’s current contract, giving the Titans control of the East Carolina product through the 2016 season.

Talks intensified on Wednesday when both sides recognized that if Johnson was going to play in the regular season, the deal had to get done in the next few days.

The Titans wanted Johnson in practice so he could adjust to the revised offense with new offensive coordinator Chris Palmer and new quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.

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three football players for receiving impermissible benefits at a charity event earlier in the year.

Running back Jordan Hall and defensive backs Corey Brown and Travis Howard were suspended for Saturday’s season opener against Akron for receiving benefits of $300 or less.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS owner Frank McCourt may not own the team much longer.

McCour t was repor tedly of fered $1.2 billion to sell the franchise to Los Angeles Marathon founder Bill Burke.

A letter to McCourt outlining the offer was disclosed to The Los Angeles Times by sources close to the situation.

Burke said he has no comment at this time, according to ESPN.

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Fred Taylor is retiring from the NFL after 13 seasons and nearly 12,000 rushing yards.

Taylor will sign a one-day contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars today so he can finish with the team that drafted him in 1998.

The Florida product spent 11 seasons with the Jaguars and remains the franchise’s leading rusher with 11,271 yards.

Taylor spent his final two seasons with the New England Patriots, where he ran 106 times for 424 yards and four touchdowns.

Taylor’s 11,695 r ushing yards places him 15th on the NFL all-time rushing list.

The running back made his first and only Pro Bowl appearance in 2007.

NOTEBOOK: Defense notches two scores in blowout continued from back Manny Abreu, and the results were staggering.

The Knights totaled nine sacks and two interceptions, two of which found the waiting arms of junior safety Duron Harmon, who returned one in the third quarter for a touchdown to put Rutgers up, 35-0.

Not to be outdone, junior defensive tackle Scott Vallone turned a sack by freshman linebacker David Milewski on the previous possession into a scoopand-score play in the endzone.

“I thought they played incredibly hard,” Schiano said. “That’s all I wanted to see was them flying around and playing hard. I think we can run, so we better use that speed. We’re going to run, not stand still.”

While NC Central’s spread attack certainly lacked the explosiveness of Big East-foe West Virginia, the Knights’ six-member secondary stymied the Eagles and quarterback Michael Johnson, who completed just 10-of-25 passes before exiting in the third quarter.

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 Schiano hinted during training camp that he would not hesitate to rotate his top four corners — junior Brandon Jones and sophomore Logan Ryan made the start — but instead, he opted to play all four at the same time, along with former corner David Rowe at safety.

“I thought they played incredibly hard. That’s all I wanted to see.”

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Senior left guard Desmond Wynn suffered a lower left injury during the second quarter and did not return to the game.

Freshman Betim Bujari replaced Wynn on the left side, and returned in the second half with the first-team offense.

“We’re not sure what it is yet,” Schiano said. “That would be a big loss. I hope he’s OK.” Wynn suffered a knee injury during spring practice that

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required Schiano to put him on the shelf until training camp, during which time Wynn cemented himself as a first-teamer.

The fifth-year senior also owns a pair of shoulder surgeries and a head injury during his career at Rutgers.

Several freshmen made their first career appearances in a Rutgers uniform last night at High Point Solutions Stadium, including rookie quarterback Gary Nova.

The Don Bosco Prep product went 6-for-17 through the air, and hooked up with redshirt freshman Brandon Coleman for a 44yard touchdown, the first of Coleman’s career.

Linebacker Kevin Snyder, running back Jawan Jamison and defensive tackle Kenneth Kirksey, among others, also saw the field for the first time in their careers.

Schiano gave JuCo transfer Justin Doerner the season-opening start at punter over freshman Anthony DiPaula.

Doerner punted five times for a 46.6 yard-per-punt average, but boomed a kickoff out of bounds during the third quarter.

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Senior defensive end Scott Valone (above) scored one of two defensive touchdowns for the Knights off a fumble in the third quarter. Senior left guard Desmond Wynn left the game with a leg injury.

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Leadership gives RU stability

BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT

The Rutgers field hockey team has not won a Big East Championship in recent memory.

Its appearance in the Big East Tournament last season was only t h e FIELD HOCKEY Scarlet Knights’ WILLAIM & MARY AT f i r s t RUTGERS since TODAY, 4 P.M. 2003.

But the Knights (1-1) know if they play their cards right, there could be a Big East title in their future.

They certainly have the experience to get there.

“The experience of being [in the Big East Tournament] last year and seeing what it was like definitely helps us to go in with more confidence this year and hopefully make it further and take home the win,” said senior back Christie Morad.

But the season is still barely underway, and the Knights have to prove themselves in their third and fourth games of the season against William & Mar y and Miami (Ohio) today and Sunday, respectively, at the Bauer Track and Field Complex.

Rutgers only lost two seniors heading into this season and relies on leadership from Morad and fellow senior Mackenzie Noda, both of whom started every game last season.

“Our communication is really good, especially between me and Mackenzie in the center box,” Morad said. “Organization and communication are our key aspects.”

The offensive end is also very similar to last season, with the Knights’ top two scorers returning.

Sophomore attack Gia Nappi put up 11 goals last season while senior attack Nicole Gentile put up five.

Although it helped Rutgers to have those reliable options, the Knights are looking for greater variation this season in scoring.

“I really expect us to vary our play, so different players are getting different looks and different scoring opportunities,” said head coach Liz Tchou.

Tchou also has confidence in relying on her two top scoring options from last season.

“Gia is the person a lot of teams will be keying in on. Hopefully if Gia is double- or triple-teamed, we’ve got other people who can step up,” Tchou said. “Nicole can score. Sometimes she gets overzealous, but she can create the opportunities for herself. I think she’s a very gifted forward that can score.”

The returning starters, among others, will help the Knights improve their offensive output, which they were less than satisfied with last season.

“We’re definitely looking for more of an output of return for attacks inside the 25 [yard circle],” Tchou said. “Last year, they only had three goals, but this year we’re really looking to get that number up higher because that’s a fairly low number for a season.”

The Knights have faith in their chances in the Big East Tournament. And after making it for the first time in eight seasons last year, they have good reason.

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The Knights hope to get back to .500 with a win today against Hartford, who enters the match at 2-2. Junior middle blocker Allie Jones (17), who recorded a career-high 20 kills in a win against NJIT, looks to provide similar stability for head coach CJ Werneke.

Rutgers sets sights on .500 record

BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER

As the Rutgers volleyball team travels to Fairfield, Conn., for the Sacred Heart Tournament this weekVOLLEYBALL end, the Scarlet RUTGERS AT Knights HARTFORD will tr y TODAY, 4:30 P.M. to avoid the slow start they experienced Wednesday night against NJIT. Dropping the first set, the Knights struggled from the outset but settled down as junior middle blocker Allie Jones controlled the net and recorded a career-high 20 kills.

“It was really impor tant for us to get some momentum to carr y into the next two games,” Jones said. “My coach gave me some tips on where to place the ball and what was open on the cour t.”

With guidance and suppor t from head coach CJ Werneke,

Jones and the Knights rallied The Bears open the tournato win the next three sets and ment with a blank canvas the match. and look to challenge the The Knights take their 2-3 Knights early. record on the road and look to The combination of Jones extend their two-game win streak and senior middle blocker against Hartford to open tourna- Hannah Curtis presents a diffiment play. Hartford enters the cult matchup for opponents. match at 2-2 Their combination and should of size, talent and “Our middles, the ability to adapt to prove to be a competitive new roles are promonly thing that match for the ising advantages for can stop them Knights. the Knights.

Junior setter “I’ve said it all is them. ” Stephanie year long: Our Zielinski will middles, the only CJ WERNEKE continue to conthing that can stop Head Volleyball Coach trol the offense them is them,” as she climbs Werneke said. the all-time Rutgers sets list.

The Knights take on host and “Going into her third NCAA Tournament qualifier year playing that position in Sacred Heart in their Saturday this system, her maturity is afternoon match. going to show,” Werneke said.

After dropping the first A win and .500 record would match, 3-1, to the Pioneers a push the Knights in the right season ago, the Knights direction as they face Ivy League- redeemed themselves in a fivecompetitor Brown in a Saturday set battle in which Curtis landmorning matchup. ed 16 kills, and Jones added

another 14 to even the 2010 series at one.

The Knights hope to win their second consecutive match against the Pioneers and return to the Banks on a high note.

Sophomore hitter Tif fany Regmund is questionable for this weekend. After suffering an injur y at the Sam Houston State Tournament, Regmund missed Wednesday’s match against NJIT. Sophomore hitter Sheridan Taylor filled in nicely for Regmund and proved the Knights’ depth this season.

“Sheridan came to play,” Wer neke said.

“She’s worked hard and really bought into the system, and I’m happy for her.”

Werneke has incorporated speed into the offense and says Taylor will be utilized often for her speed and quickness behind the setter.

Fitting the system, Werneke is excited for Taylor’s development.

RUTGERS UNVEILS 2010-11 SCHEDULE The Rutgers women’s basketball team rolled out its 2011-12 season schedule on Wednesday, as the team looks to make a deep NCAA Tournament run after a second-round exit last season.

The Scarlet Knights return all five starters from a year ago and also added the No. 6 and No. 11 prospects in the nation, according to ESPN HoopGurlz, in guard Briyona Canty and Betnijah Laney, respectively.

Head coach C. Vivian Stringer’s squad will play from the comfort of the Louis Brown Athletic Center for the

first three games, and battle perennial national contenders such as Boston College on Nov. 16, and Tennessee on Dec. 13 in their nonconference schedule.

The Knights’ Big East slate begins just past the New Year, when they welcome tri-state foe Syracuse on Jan.3 to the RAC. Stringer and Co. will close the season at the RAC, where the Knights boasted a 12-1 record last season, on Feb. 27 against Marquette.

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Senior guard Khadijah Rushdan, who was second on the team in scoring last season, opted to return for a fifth season.

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Top recruiting class to challenge Knights in S.C. Tourney

BY VINNIE MANCUSO STAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s soccer team notched its first win last Friday when it downed La Salle, 3-1, in MEN’S SOCCER t h e team’s RUTGERS AT season FURMAN opener.

TONIGHT, 5 P.M. The win c a m e largely on the backs of the Scarlet Knights’ freshmen class, which accounted for two of the Knights’ three goals.

Rutgers travels to Charleston, S.C., today to take part in the Nike/Aaron Olitsky Memorial Soccer Classic against Furman, which boasts a talented incoming class of its own.

It is the type of talent that boasts a top-five recruiting class in the entire country.

“We don’t know too much about Furman, but what we do know is that they have one of the best recruiting classes in the countr y,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “It just comes down to approaching this game just like any other game, expect it to be competitive, expect it to be a major challenge.”

The Paladins, the former Southern Conference champions,

present a number of major challenges for the Knights, the biggest of which is their highly regarded recruiting class. Three of the top-25 prospects in the country, including two midfielders and a defender, highlight Furman’s incoming class, but Donigan sees the challenges as nothing more than chances to improve.

“You want to play these teams, but you want to get those individual results at the same time,” he said. “It’s not just a matter of getting involved with these good opponents and quality teams. You want to help yourself and improve and get yourself ready for Big East play.”

The Knights offense may be capable enough to combat Furman as long as it shows the same explosiveness it displayed in its come-from-behind victor y in the second half versus La Salle.

Newcomers such as freshmen Nathan Bruccoleri and JP Correa, who both tallied their first collegiate goals in their debuts, combined with veterans like senior for ward Ibrahim Kamara to make for a formidable attacking side to combat Furman’s young squad.

Donigan only hopes the of fense can maintain the

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Senior forward Ibrahim Kamara, who earned a spot on the Big East Weekly Honor Roll earlier this week, is one of three Rutgers players with a goal through one game this season. momentum gained from the victor y over La Salle while still keeping its poise.

“The most important thing that needs to carr y over is our guys continuing to be ver y coachable and listening to us –– just having the right intent when they are out there playing,” he said. “We work on a lot of things, but ultimately you have to make the right

decisions at the right times in the game.”

And while the coach knows Furman will prove to be a formidable challenge, he is also aware they are only a bump in the beginning of a very long road, one Donigan hopes will lead to a Big East Tournament berth.

The Knights fell one win short last season from attaining that goal.

“We are going on the road, so it’s going to be a different environment for our guys, but we are looking for ward to this game,” Donigan said. “We want to see where we stand.

Hopefully, we can go down there and get a couple of decent results. We just want our guys to make progress and to improve as the year goes on — that’s what we really want.”

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After posting four saves in a 4-1 victory against Fordham on Monday night, junior goalkeeper Emmy Simpkins (left) will face a pair of high-scoring attacks over the weekend in California. Sophomore forward Jonelle Filigno leads the Knights with four goals this season after her hat trick showing Monday in Piscataway.

Daunting trip, competition awaits in trip west

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

As the Rutgers women’s soccer team braces itself for one of its longest and most challenging r o a d WOMEN’S SOCCER trips of the seaRUTGERS AT LOYOLA MARYMOUNT son — a 5,600TONIGHT, 7 P.M. m i l e round trip to Los Angeles — the perils of traveling are far from head coach Glenn Crooks’ mind.

Sympathy for having to make such a difficult trip is also hard to come by.

“They’re 19 years old, I don’t want to hear about it,” Crooks said.

But the one thing that unsettles any coach is a lack of focus, which most teams are susceptible to with the No. 6

team in the countr y waiting on the agenda.

But Crooks made it per fectly clear the focus is on tonight’s battle with undefeated Loyola Mar ymount, not sixth-ranked UCLA. “There’s no looking ahead,” he said. “Both teams are undefeated and Loyola [Mar ymount] has some impressive results. I know their program quite well so I think that if we’re looking ahead to UCLA, that would be a major miscalculation on our part.”

Fresh off a historic hat trick performance Monday against Fordham, sophomore for ward Jonelle Filigno agrees that the Scarlet Knights (2-1-0) are not worried about the possibility of a major upset against UCLA in the team’s second game out West.

Still, being more aggressive of fensively, possessing more efficiently and increasing ball

pressure are three things Filigno and Crooks agree can improve come gametime.

Aside from Filigno’s scoring output, freshman forward Cassie Inacio is the only other Knight this season with a goal. Freshman midfielder Amy Pietrangelo leads the squad with two assists.

“We feel like we’re taking steps in how we’re defending,” Crooks said. “On the attacking side, we feel like we’re just too tentative because we demand that our backs get into the attack, and right now they’re not. Our for ward mobility is getting better but that still needs to take a step for ward.”

The biggest challenge for the Knights when they take Sullivan Field tonight is likely Lions (3-0-1) for ward Tawni Mar tino, who through four games leads the squad with eight goals.

As a similar offensive threat, Filigno noted organization between lines must be on point to suppress Martino’s goal-scoring ability.

“I think the biggest thing is just organization with the team,” Filigno said. “The second you’re not organized is the second she can get through.”

But when it comes to shutting Martino and the rest of the Lions’ attack down, the burden lies with the defense and junior goalkeeper Emmy Simpkins.

The Concord, N.C., native posted four saves in the Knights’ win Monday night and hopes her comfor t in net can translate against two teams averaging at least 1.75 goals per game.

“It’s going to be a completely different game [tonight] and Sunday,” Simpkins said. “I felt pretty confident [Monday

against Fordham] as far as coming off my line quickly and clearing balls outside the box with my feet.”

The second game of the weekend is sure to be the true test for Crooks and Co. The Knights pay a visit to UCLA (3-0-0) on Sunday with intentions of making up for a tough 1-0 defeat at the hands of No. 10 Boston College last week on the road.

Crooks sees the progress his team made since that game, but knows the Knights have to jump up another level this weekend for both games.

Luckily for Crooks, focus is the least of his worries.

“This whole weekend’s a big oppor tunity,” he said. “Our thoughts are always about the postseason. That’s where we want to be, but we know we take steps.”

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Highly coveted running back Savon Huggins shines in Knights debut, scores two TD’s in rout of NCCU

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

If there was any question as to whether Savon Huggins would get e v e r y FOOTBALL opportunity to prove he is the workhorse tailback everyone envisioned, it disappeared last night on his seventh carry of the Rutgers football team’s third drive.

Huggins patiently waited while two other tailbacks got earlier touches against North Carolina Central, then entered the game and heard his number called.

Then it happened again, and again, and again a few more times.

The 6-foot, 200-pounder carried the ball on seven of the next eight plays, and after his first attempt at a goal-line score was stuffed, he got another chance.

Huggins scored the Scarlet Knights’ first touchdown of the season — and his first of two on the night — to lead a 48-0 rout at High Point Solutions Stadium.

“It was really good to see how much burst he had,” said head coach Greg Schiano. “The lights were on and he was running around. We have to get his pad level lower, but he has some pop.”

Schiano likely saw everything he wanted in Rutgers’ season opener against its Football Championship Subdivision opponent.

Huggins shouldered the load, carrying the ball 10 times for 32 yards.

He took hits — a big one on his third carry of the game — and bounced back up.

And he had help from a trio of other tailbacks that were equally impressive in training camp and will continue to split some of the carries.

But Huggins was the main attraction seven months after he became arguably the most highly touted recruit to commit to Rutgers, and he met the expectations.

Huggins became the first Rutgers running back to rush for two touchdowns in his debut since 1993, when Terrell Willis accomplished the feat.

Willis earned a spot on the Freshman All-American team and was a First Team All-Big East running back in each of the three seasons he played in Piscataway.

The commitment to Huggins, junior De’Antwan Williams, sophomore

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Freshman running back Savon Huggins did not dissappoint in his Rutgers debut, rushing for two first half touchdowns in the squad’s 48-0 victory over North Carolina Central. The highly touted back split carries with junior De’Antwan Williams and redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison.

NATIONAL SCORES Murray State Louisville

Wake Forest Syracuse

UNLV No. 11 Wisconsin

KEY STATS 9 21

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LEADERS PASSING CHAS DODD 9-17, 113 YDS, 1 TD, 1 INT

RUTGERS NCCU

Total Yds 347 120

Pass 210 112

Rush 137 8

EXTRA POINT RUSHING JAWAN JAMISON 17 CAR, 54 YDS

RECEIVING MOHAMED SANU 7 REC, 68 YDS, 1 TD

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The Rutgers football team scored two touchdowns on defense for the first time since a 2009, 34-13 victory over Maryland. Junior strong safety Duron Harmon intercepted a pass and ran it back 37-yards for a score, while senior defensive end Scott Valone scoped up a loose ball from just outside the endzone for a touchdown.

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

While much of the attention surrounding Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano’s defensive changes during the of fseason revolved around the front seven, the Scarlet Knights’ secondar y saw the majority of the action last night against North Carolina Central’s spread offense.

Schiano, the Scarlet Knights’ de facto defensive coordinator, opted for six defensive backs on obvious passing downs against the visiting Eagles and put former safety Khaseem Greene at the middle linebacker position.

Making space for Greene, junior Steve Beauharnais moved into a three-point stance as an edge rusher opposite former linebacker

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