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Athletics to see $1 million subsidy decrease

BY MARY DIDUCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The University plans to drop $1 million from the athletics department’s University-backed subsidy, one of the highest in the nation.

“Our goal from day one has been to stabilize and reduce University support to athletics. We will continue working to raise new revenues to further reduce University

suppor t,” Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Tim Pernetti said in a statement.

The loss of $10.8 million from the University’s expected budget — a result from when the Board of Governors approved a 1.8 percent tuition increase, one of the lowest in years — called for a drop in the approximately $27 million subsidy, Interim Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Richard Edwards said.

He said the depar tment is in the process of settling their budget and reducing their expenses.

“Ideally, we wouldn’t need to subsidize athletics at all, but it’s valuable for the University to engage in these spor ts,” he said.

Edwards said he expects all sports — including the University’s 21 non-revenue generating sports — to remain.

“To my knowledge, there’s no consideration of elimination of sports,” he said.

President Richard L. McCormick said the decision was handed down to Pernetti a few weeks ago, so decisions have yet to be finalized as to what changes will be made.

“It has been a long-term goal to reduce the subsidy,” McCormick said, noting that

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U. prepares for 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks

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The Rutgers University Student Assembly selected five representatives to the New Brunswick Student Advisory Committee, which works with the government on city-University issues, last night in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus.

RUSA picks new members in first meeting

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The Rutgers University Student Assembly (RUSA) conducted its first meeting of the semester last night electing the five students to the New Brunswick Student Advisory Committee as well as the new University Affairs Chair.

Members Donggu Yoon, Christine Honey, Katherine Yabut, Stacy Milliman and Jill Weiss were voted onto the committee in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus, with

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Mark Bittner and Scott Siegel ser ving as alternatives.

The committee was formed after the 2009 city government elections.

Community activists campaigned for a ward system of government, where ward representatives would be able to bring out problems specific to their region.

“New Brunswick was seen as using students as an ATM of the city, and with this committee it brings Rutgers administration, students, faculty, New Brunswick residents and officials together to target important issues troubling the community,” said Matt

Cordeiro, RUSA president and a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

Such issues include a trash ordinance that the city council will vote on later this month, which will suspend the collection of bulk items each year between May 10 and June 10.

Cordeiro said the ordinance affects students directly because it goes into effect the same time students move out of their houses and into apartments.

“It’s $250 for the first [bulk] item and $100 on each subsequent item, then a fine

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As the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center draws near, students and faculty alike are preparing themselves for a day of remembering and honoring those who were lost.

School of Arts and Sciences seniors Julia Crimi and Sarah Morrison will commemorate the day by recreating an American flag comprised of handprints, based off an original flag created in October 2001 by the student organization Scarlet Tribute.

“Sarah was thinking how to mark the anniversary 10 years after Sept. 11, and we discovered the project that happened in 2001,” Crimi said.

The project will employ a 15-by-20-foot tarp and include red, white and blue handprints to create the illusion of a flag, Crimi said.

Morrison was inspired to organize the project by the “9/11 Student Journalism Project,” a spring 2011 course that involved University students interviewing the children of victims who died in 9/11 and putting those stories into a narrative style of journalism.

“The course allowed us to listen to the stories of families of the victims, and it made me want to do something to not forget about Sept. 11,” she said.

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City council opposes opening of sports bar

BY CHASE BRUSH STAFF WRITER

At its first meeting of the month, the New Brunswick City Council shot down a proposal to open a new tavern, “Buck Foston” in a close two-to-one vote. The tavern would have occupied the old Bennigan’s restaurant property along Route 1 and 18.

City Council members disapproved of the motion Wednesday evening, which would allow for the transfer of a liquor license from Sapporo Management Corporation to the tavern, for a varied list of reasons.

“This restaurant slash bar should actually be called a bar,” said Council President Robert Racine, who along with other city officials and community residents expressed serious concern over the adverse effects the tavern could potentially have on the surrounding community.

Larry Blatterfein, owner of Buck Foston — which Racine and others supposed was named after a centuryold rivalry between New York and Boston sports teams — sought to acquire the liquor license from the nearby city restaurant for use at this new location, Racine said.

The Department of Community and Economic Development and Construction approved an application in June to redevelop the former Bennigan’s site, said James Clarkin, the attorney representing Buck Foston.

“In order for anyone to obtain site plan approval, the applicant must prove that the site plan not be detrimental to the general welfare, to public health and to public safety,” he said. “This is a safe site.”

Clarkin said there is next to no reason for why the tavern should not be granted the license transfer.

The transfer also received a certificate of zoning compliance, which stated that the applicant had been approved for redevelopment of the commercial space, he said.

NOAH WHITTENBURG In order to start redevelopment, Buck Foston must In a two-to-one vote, the New Brunswick City Council Wednesday night first acquire a positive rec- voted against a proposal to open the “Buck Foston” tavern. ommendation from plan, which Clarkin believes might have been the Anthony Caputo, the director of the New Brunswick main reasons why the proposal was ultimately Police Department (NBPD), Clarkin said. rejected in council.

“We are here tonight to respond to that recomThe plan proposed occupancy of 352 people, while mendation,” he said. the old Bennigan’s set it to 185 people. The critique But the final recommendation picked out two SEE COUNCIL ON PAGE 4 major flaws with the Buck Foston redevelopment

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GRE changes challenge students

BY ELIZABETH ZWIRZ STAFF WRITER

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Performers act out adaptions of “The Merchant in Venice” Wednesday night at “Art After Hours” at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.

Exhibition imitates Venetian festival

BY YASHMIN PATEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“Two Venetian Masters: Canaletto and Domenico Tiepolo Etchings from the Arthur Ross Foundation” made its appearance Wednesday night at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus during their first “Art After Hours” event of the semester featuring Venetian-influenced music and actors.

The exhibition, provided by the Arthur Ross Foundation, features etchings by 18th century artists Canaletto and Domenico Tiepolo, who were featured in previous works in the museum, said Associate Curator of European Art Christine Giviskos.

“We try to show as much that complements our collection,” Giviskos said. “We also feel it’s important to show important works that aren’t in our collection to our audience.”

While the Zimmerli Museum houses more than 60,000 pieces, including an eclectic amount of artists and styles, there are certain works they do not hold, like the old master prints of Canaletto and Tiepolo, Giviskos said.

“We don’t have these works by these artists in our collections, and we feel that as a part of our mission is to show great examples from all the periods of art,” Giviskos said.

The “Two Venetian Masters” exhibition has been a collaborative effort in the making for nearly two years between Zimmerli staff, members of the Arthur Ross Foundation and the Zimmerli Student Advisor y Board (ZSAB), said Communications Coordinator Theresa Watson.

“In 2006, the ZSAB was formed to serve as the student voice for the museum,” Watson said. “Aside from staff members who promote the museum’s

exhibitions and ‘Ar t After Hours’ programs, a group of students also help promote the museum among the student body at the University.”

“Two Venetian Masters” will be on display until Jan. 8, 2012 and can be viewed at any museum hours, said Rebecca Brenowitz, Community Relations Coordinator.

“The exhibition itself is just stunning,” Brenowitz said.

Aside from the art exhibition, “Art After Hours” includes a night filled with performances, music and food available to all University students, faculty and staff for free on the first Wednesday of ever y month, she said.

“We have a curator-led tour of the exhibition, following that we will have actors and Venetian carnival costumes,” Brenowitz said.

“We also have two different performances by a musical group called Bella Mandolins and it’s …

Italian traditional music.”

The “Art After Hours” program at the Zimmerli has gone through many changes before it became what it is today, Watson said.

“The Zimmerli began offering a monthly evening event in 2000, giving Rutgers University students and community members the opportunity to engage in a multifaceted approach to the arts,” she said.

Not only does the Zimmerli put together extensive exhibitions but they also arrange social evenings for people to gather and view different aspects of art, Giviskos said.

“Last academic year we really sort of made it what it is now, which is a full evening of art and related programming that ranges from music to poetry readings; sometimes it’s dramatic performances, or performance art pieces where all students are able to participate,” she said.

After a month devoted to studying with a verbal and math workbook, School of Arts and Sciences senior Eddie Murphy took the new GRE exam this summer.

When he saw the range of his scores at the end of the exam, Murphy said he did better than he imagined.

Murphy and other university students were among the first, since Aug. 1, to experience the revised Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), a required test for graduate school admission.

Lee Weiss, director of graduate programs for Kaplan Test Prep, said the test remains computer generated, but the activity changed considerably, particularly with a four hour long test time.

“Students need to prepare stamina and endurance and get used to what it feels like to sit in front of a computer for four hours and take a test,” he said.

Another addition is the difficulty of questions based on students’ previous success, Weiss said. How well a student performs in one section determines the effort of the next portion.

For verbal reasoning, there are no longer analogies, synonyms or antonyms, he said.

Instead of vocabular y, there are reasoning arguments and fill-in vocabular y words, while some questions will also require the test taker to choose multiple answers.

Murphy found the verbal section, particularly where he had to complete a sentence with a vocabular y word, the most challenging.

“You needed to pick two out of six words, and four or five of them were not words you use frequently,” Murphy said. “I only knew them because I studied them. It was just you either knew it or didn’t. That was the hardest part.”

Nick Maroldi, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, is expecting to take the GRE later this semester

and expressed his worries about the altered verbal section.

“I have been using the online Kaplan class to prep,” he said. “I personally am happy they changed the format of the exam because I was not very good with antonyms and analogies.”

For quantitative reasoning, there will be less on geometr y and more on interpretation of data char ts and graphs, Weiss said.

As a political science major, Murphy said the mathematics section should not intimidate future GRE test takers.

“I went through each math topic in the workbook. I reviewed it and I was methodical,” he said.

“As someone with a small math background, the score range at the end they gave me was 750 to 800. If I could it, anyone could do it.”

“Students need to prepare stamina ... to sit in front of a computer for four hours and take a test.”

LEE WEISS Director of Graduate Programs for Kaplan Test Prep

Also, essays topics will now be more focused, Weiss said.

“They are very specific tasks that make it more so you have to think on your feet so you can’t pre-prepare answers,” he said.

Because the changes are fresh, there are not enough results yet to judge students’ success rate, but the exam is standardized and therefore predictable, making it possible to study sufficiently, he said.

Everett Falt, an alumnus, faces challenges of test taking during post-graduation, and he said he found success by enrolling in a GRE preparation classes.

“The course is helping a lot,” Falt said. “I am learning new things and it’s really making me remember how to do

things that I used to know how to do, but forgot.”

The Educational Testing Service (ETS) and graduate schools initiated the implemented changes across the country, he said. They found that the previous test was not a good indicator for a student’s potential success. “[The exam] is a key factor of getting into grad school because grad schools need to find great students for their programs,” Weiss said. “But having a good vocabular y isn’t a good indication of potential success in grad school.”

The ETS also hopes to make the GRE comparable with the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), the admissions exam for business schools, through these recent changes, he said. Currently, the GRE is an alternate to the GMAT. The outlook for business schools using the GRE is more promising, Weiss said.

“It is clear the GRE is gaining ground,” he said. “There are many business schools who accept the GRE now.”

Now with GRE exams implemented, the GMAT plans to release changes to their exam in June in order to stay ahead of it, he said.

“There is a little bit of a test war heating up,” Weiss said.

He advised students prepping for the exam to not be overly worried. While the exam is more rigorous, it will allow students to prove themselves, he said.

“Previously, you’ve been able to study a little and be okay but now more work needs to be put into it,” he said. “As long as they study and do the work they need to do, they’ll be fine with it.

Weiss said he recommends preparing for all the sections, having a strong study plan and strategies.

“Our advice is if you’re planning to go to grad school, study for it and you’ll get a great score,” he said.

— Reena Diamante tributed to this article.

U. EARNS GRANT TO EXAMINE SEA LEVEL HEIGHTS AFTER STORMS The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) donated $587,190 to the University last Monday to fur ther develop studies on the impact of storm water in coastal regions and the rise of sea level.

The University will also add $231,020 of its own funds to study costal erosion and fisheries, as well as to work with students from kindergarten to grade 12 to research coastal studies, said Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., (D-N.J.), in an Asbury Park Press article.

The Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences gave the amount as a grant, thus enabling the University to carr y out programs, including the restoration of Barnegat Bay. Richard Lutz, the director of the Institute, said in the article that he was grateful for NOAA’s grant, as budget cuts in

Washington, D.C., have prevented scientists from researching as extensively as they would have liked. “[Without NOAA funding] that would be absolutely disastrous,” he said in the article.

“Those capabilities will totally disappear.”

The University uses the Integrated Ocean Observing System, which detects oceanic weather and climate data, in order to help scientists track storms and other harmful pollution events.

Other University resources include undersea robots and on-shore radar maps to track any temperature changes that might occur beneath the ocean’s surface, according to the article. Such efforts have helped fishermen predict future storm impacts and find lost sailors at sea.

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SUBSIDY: One percent of budget used for department continued from front past ef for ts have been unsuccessful.

The subsidy has been in effect since before McCormick assumed the presidency in 2002, and though it has not decreased, it also has not increased, he said.

Edwards said an athletics

COUNCIL: Tavern argues that bar won’t affect residents continued from front pointed out that this was extremely hazardous to traffic, Clarkin said.

Second, the critique argued against Buck Foston’s floor plan, which was far different than that which existed at Bennigan’s.

But those issues aside, Clarkin said he did not see how an increase in occupancy or change in floor plan configuration made the property inappropriate for a new liquor license.

“If the concern is that there will be a negative impact on the surrounding community due to noise, that shouldn’t be an issue either,” Clarkin said. “The proposed site is not within a residential enclave. It is in a commercial area at the intersection of two very heavily traveled highways.”

Clarkin added that the closest residential neighborhood on Tunison Road is at least 500 feet away.

“Fuddruckers across the street, which is several hundred feet closer, also has a liquor license which was approved by the city on Aug. 17 of this year,” he said. “The resolution of approval for that license included no such restrictions.”

Yet Racine and other members of the community quickly contended that the existence of the establishment in what is an already congested area might attract yet more travelers, posing a threat to pedestrians, commuters and residents.

Police Detective Michael DeBonis, who assisted the NBPD director in making the recommendation, said the establishment would further complicate traffic conditions in the area whether or not the plan was approved by a zoning board.

subsidy is a reality in similar institutions.

Seven schools with strong football programs did not give money to athletics in fiscal year 2010, according to Bloomberg.

The subsidy of $26.9 million – 42 percent of the $62 million athletic budget — is the highest in the nation, and the University subsidized about $19 million or 1 percent of its budget during the 2009-2010 fiscal year, according to Bloomberg data. The remaining amount came from student fees.

DeBonis, who conducted a seven-year traffic analysis in the area, found that there had been 54 accidents and one fatality directly related to the Route 1 off-ramp near Bennigan’s.

“The totality of this plan is aggressive,” he said. “We believe the 352 occupants would adversely affect the quality of life in the area.”

Clarkin disagreed, arguing there would be little chance of traffic disruption as the roads surrounding the proposed location are engineered to support many people.

“No traffic study has been prepared by the city in connection with this investigation,” he said. “You have no accident analysis to support any type of proposed restrictions.”

Racine interrupted Clarkin’s explanation to critique the use of “callous” studies in a scenario where human lives could be at stake.

“The account unfortunately fails to take common sense into account. For me, it’s a stretch to say that an increase in occupancy doesn’t increase the number of cars,” he said.

In response, Clarkin presented a written report prepared by a traffic engineer Buck Foston had employed. It found that there was little correlation that an increase in the number of people occupying a site would increase the number of vehicles on the road.

“To my knowledge the police director is not a traffic engineer and neither is detective DeBonis,” he said.

But Glen Flemming of 21 Pennington Rd. in New Brunswick had other thoughts.

Flemming claimed he would be directly affected by an establishment like Buck Foston’s.

“I’m standing up here as a homeowner in the area and a father of two young children,” he said. “Is this really the most appropriate use we can think of for this site?”

U NIVERSITY RUSA: Group also elects new University Affairs chair continued from front if they do not do so,” he said. “It’s going to cost students a lot to move out and it’s too much.”

Jill Weiss served on the committee last year and spent time working on the trash moratorium.

“We spoke a lot about the exorbitant amount of trash on Easton Avenue and we fixed that by putting trash cans out,” said Weiss, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

The committee tried to get a senior, sophomore and junior on the committee last year so students could replace each other as years passed, she said.

“A lot of people on the committee I know or have worked with before and I feel as though this is a great opportunity to connect students and town officials,” Weiss said.

Milliman, an At-Large University senator on RUSA, said she was passionate about the garbage pickup moratorium and feels she would be a good liaison between the University and New Brunswick.

“I’ve dealt with some of these people before, and I think I have their respect,” said Milliman, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “They take me seriously and I’m not worried about interacting with these people at all.”

Bittner, a RUSA senator, lived off campus for two years and has

ATTACKS: Professors, students remember day well continued from front Crimi and Morrison hope to debut the completed project at this year’s homecoming football game on Oct. 15.

“The original flag was unveiled at the homecoming game and put up in the [Rutgers] Student Center, and we hope to do the same,” Morrison said.

Crimi encourages students to help create the flag this Sunday, Sept. 11, outside Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus from noon to 6 p.m.

“The Facebook event has over 200 students attending the event, and hopefully we get enough to fill the tarp,” she said. “We hope to get as many people as we can, and we’ll make room for more if we have to.”

Crimi said creating the flag is a large project and probably cannot be done every year on the anniversary of the tragedy.

“I hope they do the project again on major anniversar y dates,” she said. “Hopefully they can remake the flag in 10 or 15 years for the 20th or 25th anniversary of the attacks.”

For some students and faculty, the events of 9/11 are not easy to forget.

Steven Miller, senior media ser vices coordinator for the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, said 9/11 is the Pearl Harbor of this generation. “[Sept. 11 was] a milepost. We should honor the memories of our people but also honor the fact that we have so much to offer,” he said. “We should be relishing that and celebrating that.”

Miller was teaching his Introduction to Media Systems and Processes class on that day, when a hysterical student interrupted. The student said his whole world had ended because his father died in the World Trade Center attacks.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M experience negotiating with people during his job.

“I’ve dealt with all types of people and I can negotiate very well,” said Bittner, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “I plan to help the community of New Brunswick and Rutgers students, and I can dedicate the time.”

Yabut, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore and Douglass senator, said although she has no experience living off campus, her residency in Franklin Township made her aware of the issues affecting the area.

“When you think of Rutgers, it is considered a separate entity than New Brunswick and I really want to change that,” she said. “I want to bring awareness to Rutgers students.”

Christine Honey, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior and senator, said the oppor tunity to join the New Br unswick Student Advisor y Committee would be a great oppor tunity to connect students and residents together.

“This [issue] is incredibly important [and it] deals with all Rutgers students, everybody that goes to Rutgers are aware of it,” she said. “The whole [bulk garbage] statute … targets students directly and I want to improve that.”

Yoon, a senator at-large and a School of Arts and Sciences senior, was unable to attend the meeting but was represented by John Connelly, a School of Arts

and Sciences senator, who spoke about Yoon’s qualifications.

“Yoon is a very involved and overall a great person,” said Connelly, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Unfortunately I don’t have his résumé in front of me but he is very involved.”

Scott Siegel, RUSA treasurer, designated himself as an alternative.

The committee is set to meet two to three times a year, meeting within the next two weeks, Cordeiro said.

Honey was also elected to the University Affairs Chair along with her position on the committee.

“I’m ver y passionate about the student privacy committee and other issues such as where money is being spent,” she said. “I have ideas and I would love to share them with the student body.”

For Cordeiro, this marked the first election he presided over this semester. He also opened the floor for nominations for RUSA vice president.

With the transfer of Thomas Nichols, the position of vice president, was opened, he said.

“If that position is vacated, that calls for an in-body election, and nominations will be taken at tonight’s meeting and at next week’s meeting,” Cordeiro said.

The vice president takes care of the five committees, acts as an usher and executive to the committees and also takes the position of second in charge, he said.

“Immediately there was a panic and people were running over each other trying to leave,” he said. “I yelled for the students to stop and dismissed class campus by campus.”

Miller said his responsibility to keep the class under control is one of the reasons he has not grieved properly following the attacks.

“I’ve created this hard casing for myself, and I’ve never felt the full impact, I’ve never grieved,” he said. “But I know one day it’s going to happen because I’m an emotional person.”

Students had different reactions when reflecting on the events of the day.

Daniel Flynn, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he could recall the day very clearly.

“I remember exactly where I was. I was in my sixth grade science class, and I remember our teacher wheeled in a TV, and we were watching it and then the second tower was hit,” he said.

The students in the school were then taken to the cafeteria, and some parents took their children out of school, he said. But the most memorable thing to him is the serendipity he experienced.

“My birthday is the 12th of September, and we had reservations for the Windows on the World restaurant on top of one of the World Trade Centers, which is one of the reasons I remember that day so well,” he said.

Flynn said it is unfortunate how afraid society has become even a decade later.

“People are really paranoid, but you shouldn’t let it make [you] have a negative feeling of the world,” he said. “We fear the unknown, what other people believe and think.”

Nenna Abdelhamid, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she was only in elementary school and did not know what exactly happened.

“I remember being in third grade, and I just remember that it was a big deal. I watched the video like a thousand times,” she said.

As a Muslim, Abdelhamid said the time after the attacks was very bad for Muslim children.

“I think it changed society’s view on [the] religion,” she said. “Basically, people started calling you terrorist and things like that.”

Victoria Slater, a School of Arts Sciences sophomore, said stereotypes started increasing after the attacks.

“We’ve developed this bias against cer tain people who we would consider ter rorists,” she said.

Abdelhamid said she felt the anti-Muslim sentiment is dying down 10 years after the tragedy.

“It still exists obviously, but it’s not as bad as it was before,” she said. “I want people to remember to not judge people and to come together more.”

Slater, a Monmouth County resident, said the attacks caused major changes in the lives of the people who lost loved ones in the tragedy.

“In my area many people worked in New York City and the World Trade Center,” she said.

“My most crazy memories are of kids whose families were torn apart after the attacks because their parents or uncles died.”

Slater said good things came out of the attacks as well.

“Seeing President [George W.] Bush come on TV and speak brought the country together,” she said. “We should thankful that this hasn’t happened to us and hope that it doesn’t.”

Flynn said people should not live in fear today.

“We’re not invulnerable, we’re not always safe, but that’s part of living in a free country,” he said. “You can’t always be safe every second.”

Miller said the day should be a celebration of the victim’s contributions to society more than a day of mourning.

“We shouldn’t just mourn the loss of the people on Sept. 11,” he said. “We should celebrate the lives that they lived and the great deeds that they did.”

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IN FOCUS

PA G E 5

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Researchers study health effects of World Trade Center dust

BY KRISTINE ROSETTE ENERIO NEWS EDITOR

Paul Lioy, director of Exposure Science at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), still feels proud after 10 years of the mass cooperation that drew the country together after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Although he was not a rescue worker, he experienced some of that synergy when it came to his research — analyzing dust particles from the fallen World Trade Center.

In a matter of days, Lioy assembled his first team of researchers when a number of agencies asked if he could collect dust immediately after the attacks.

“As soon as some my colleagues knew I had samples, I had people…saying ‘Paul, send us what you got.’ I said, ‘I have no money’ and they said, ‘Debt doesn’t matter. We don’t care about the money. It was about doing work,’” he said.

To Lioy, the feeling was ver y gratifying.

“One of the best things about academics in the United States is the fact that if you know people and you know how to work together, you can develop collaborative teams, and you can get things done,” he said.

The effort began as a volunteer effort, comprised of Lioy and a few of his colleagues at EOHSI, but it expanded to include researchers from around the nation.

“We were very concerned at that point because there were a mass amount of materials and we were wondering what was in it. … So we decided to … analyze the entire dust, not make any judgments beforehand as what to analyze and what not to analyze,” he said.

After inspecting the samples, the team found that some of the major components included cement, cellulose from destroyed paper, some asbestos and polycyclic automatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) or potent atmospheric pollutants that are formed by incomplete combustion of carbon-containing fuels.

But one of the more damaging substances found was fiberglass and other glass particles, Lioy said. “[There were] 110 stories and two buildings of glass that just basically fell apart, plus interior glass,” he said. “And it didn’t fall apart and look like broken glass. It became into these little daggers of dust fiber. It was pretty intense.”

In essence, the dust was made up of the components of a modern building, which Lioy found both remarkable and frightening.

“It was so unusual because [when] you think of building demolition, you don’t think of a demolished building being pulverized to dust,” he said.

Other than the material makeup of the samples, the size of the particles found in the dust also proved to be unusual.

While humans normally breath particles in ever y day, Lioy said they are usually very fine particles and are regulated due to long-term consequences for cardiovascular and respiratory disease.

“But this was different. These were very, very large particles,” he said. “We didn’t even have name for it so we called it ‘super coarse particles’ because they were bigger than what we normally collect in the environment.”

Fine to coarse particles range from .1 to 10 micrometers in diameter, he said. But the particles they observed ranged from 10 to hundreds of micrometers in diameter.

COURTESY OF PAUL LIOY AND JIM MILLETTE

COURTESY OF PAUL LIOY AND JIM MILLETTE

Glass fibers, magnified above on a microscope, were one of the main components found in the World Trade Center dust samples that researchers collected immediately after the attacks.

“Under normal circumstances, you wouldn’t think of that being a health concerns but then you put it together and think ‘large quantities of it, inhaled’ … plus the fact it had all these fibers in it,” he said. “And those fibers also would tend to be like daggers going out into the lungs.”

Due to the lack of proper measuring equipment, one element that initial 9/11 material collectors could not account for was gas from the burning fuel of the jet planes.

Lioy believes that they will never know the true amount of gas and other dangerous fuel materials that were expelled that day.

“When you are dealing with a catastrophic event in real life, 99 percent of the time you don’t have the measurement devices available,” he said. “The only thing you have sometimes are people with experience with the event, and 9/11 caught us 100 percent off guard cause no one ever had to deal with it before.”

But the adverse health affects due to dust inhalation were thoroughly researched and recorded.

Studies done at the University and other institutions have shown there is persistent asthma in about 27 percent of the rescue workers, Lioy said. Thirty to 40 percent have had incidents of long-term sinusitis.

It is also likely that workers swallowed the dust materials in addition to inhaling them, which Lioy said led to instances

of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

“Another thing that’s ver y important is that the people with the highest level of effect and longer-lasting ef fect are ones who got there early and were exposed to the dust as it was being generated in the first few hours,” he said.

Still, Lioy said dangerous dust particles and long-term health affects were far from peoples’ minds that day, which may have added to the danger.

“We didn’t start making the connection as quickly as we should.”

PAUL LIOY Exposure Science Director at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute

“We didn’t start making the connection as quickly as we should,” he said. “Within the first week it was clear that something was happening because people began to talk about a cough then it became coined ‘the World Trade Center cough.’”

Because relief effort and rescuing victims were the main areas of focus after the 9/11 attacks, precautions to protect the rescuers were not adequate.

“There were respirators that were put there but respirators weren’t fitted to people,” he said. “[They did] not really make it mandator y to get the respirators on because there were so many agencies in charge or not in charge.”

Since President Barack Obama signed the 9/11 Health Bill — which provides $4.3 billion over five years for health coverage to 9/11 rescue workers — in Januar y, research work like Lioy’s had become useful.

But he refuses to develop personal feelings on the issue.

“I try not to politicize things because it’s unfair to anyone,” he said. “All I can do is make sure when I do my work I give honest answers and give the best info I have possible.”

Overall Lioy said he is pleased with the approach his team took and believes it was the most complete assessment of the World Trade Center dust that could be made.

He published experiences last year in his book titled, “Dust: The Inside Story of its Role in the September 11th Aftermath” and said writing it was a cathartic.

Still, Lioy wishes the cohesiveness of post-9/11 had stuck around. “[I] feel just as proud of people, how they came together at the time,” he said. “I think the thing that disappoints me is how we’ve lost some of that [as a country] over the last ten years. It actually came together and it didn’t stay together.”

COURTESY OF PAUL LIOY AND JIM MILLETTE

A high chair and teddy bear found in an apartment that neighbored the Twin Towers is covered in dust that spread across New York City after the World Trade Center collapsed. Studies show that the dust, magnified on the right, is responsible for long-term health problems due to inhalation and ingestion.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

NATION

PA G E 7

Audio files reveal terror of Sept. 11 events THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Newly posted audio files depict the horror of 9/11 unfolding in the sky, as air traffic controllers struggled to follow the faint tracks of hijacked planes, fighter jets tried in vain to chase them down and a flight attendant made a desperate appeal for help.

The sound files add a layer of emotion to previously published transcripts, as puzzlement and frustration seeps into the voices of controllers, military commanders, and even pilots watching the attacks from the sky. There are shouting and ringing phones in the background — the soundtrack, usually omitted from written transcripts, of a nation suddenly at war.

In one chilling excerpt, screaming and a shouted “Hey!” is heard over the radio as hijackers storm the cockpit of United Flight 93. That’s followed by a strange, strained cr y. Stunned controllers and other pilots discuss the sounds, trying to make sense of what they heard.

“No dry words on a page can capture that; you really have to hear it,” said John Farmer, dean of the Rutgers University School of Law and former senior counsel to the government’s 9/11 Commission.

The sound files were posted online Wednesday, just days before the 10th anniversary of the attacks, to accompany a monograph published by the Rutgers University Law Review. The release was first reported by The New York Times.

The monograph was written

by Farmer and other investigators working for the 9/11 Commission but was not completed by the time the commission released its final report in 2004.

Farmer and another investigator, Miles Kara, decided to finish the document and add the audio after their draft and the original Federal Aviation Administration recordings were declassified last year.

Law school students helped review and edit the recordings.

Most of recordings come from the FAA and are of controllers and the military liaisons working with them. But some come from other sources, including a phone call that Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, placed to the airline.

“Somebody’s stabbed in business class, and, um I think there is Mace that we can’t breathe,” Ong says. “I don’t know, I think we’re getting hijacked.”

After Flight 11 hit the World Trade Center, tapes recorded the conversation among controllers as a second plane streaked past the window of a radar control facility on its way to Manhattan.

“Another one just hit the building,” someone says.

Another person responds: “Oh my God.” And then: “Another one just hit it hard. ... Another one just hit the World Trade.”

It’s followed by: “The whole building just, ah, came apart.”

Someone utters again: “Oh my God.” Some original recordings from 9/11 still have not been made

public, including military communications, discussions among White House officials, and the cockpit voice recorder from Flight 93.

Farmer listened to the cockpit voice recording during the 9/11 Commission investigation. He said it is a stirring record of the hijacking and of the passengers’ attempt to retake control of the plane before it crashed near Shanksville, Pa. Much of the audio released Wednesday has been previously documented in hearings, lawsuits and various government reports.

Farmer himself included many of the transcripts in a 2009 book, “The Ground Truth.”

But the actual voices of confused controllers and pilots underscores the chaos in the sky that morning, especially in the first minutes after the hijackers swung their airliners off course and turned off the aircrafts’ transponders, making it difficult for radar to track them.

The military learned about the hijacking of Flight 11 nine minutes before it crashed into the World Trade Center, and was never notified about the other hijackings before those planes crashed.

“The confusion on that day is something that we sometimes forget about,” said Andrew Gimigliano, editor-in-chief of the Rutgers Law Review. “The idea that hijacked planes would be used in that manner just was not something that people were thinking about, and this is really illustrative of what the real tenor was on that morning.”

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The Rutgers University Law Review published sound files of pilots and controllers watching the World Trade Center being hit.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

METRO

PA G E 9

Group lobbies legislatures to investigate 9/11 truth

BY TABISH TALIB CORRESPONDENT

Members of the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth held a rally yesterday outside the Middlesex County Courthouse on 56 Paterson Street to ask the prosecutor’s office to investigate the collapse of the World Trade Center, which the organization believes was caused by bombs inside the towers.

The organization handed out literature to pedestrians on the street that contained statements from engineers and architects who believe nano-thermite explosives caused the collapse of the Twin Towers and Building 7, said David Meiswinkle, state coordinator for Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. “[The building contained] some unignited and some partially ignited nano-thermite,” he said. “One of the foremost experts on the explosive, Niels Harrit, has said it was the cause for the buildings coming down.”

Meiswinkle, a criminal defense and trial attorney who served as the University’s student body president from 1971 to 1972, said the organization is pushing for an investigation and sent information to the prosecutor’s offices in all 21 counties.

“Law enforcement’s job is to find the suspects. And we’re saying

that the evidence points in a different direction,” he said. “We want them to investigate this.”

The Middlesex County prosecutor’s office was not available for comment at press time.

Although the federal government already conducted an investigation, state and county officials are free to start their own investigations, Meiswinkle said.

“Seventeen of the state’s 21 counties had citizens who were victims. The worst was Bergen County, with 123 victims and Monmouth County [with] 122,” he said.

The organization did not take a position on who was to blame for detonating the building, said Meiswinkle, who ser ved as a New Brunswick police officer for 23 years.

“We purposely don’t want to point fingers,” he said. “The reason being that credibility is in objectivity.”

Denise Morgan, Meiswinkle’s assistant, said Meiswinkle has a history of advocacy extending to his time at the University.

“David was the one who advocated and got the administration to introduce handicapped-[accessible] buses with hydraulic lifts,” she said.

Morgan worked in the Dean of Students’ office from 1970 to 1972 and said Meiswinkle was considered radical on campus.

KEITH FREEMAN / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

David Meiswinkle, state coordinator for Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, discusses an alternate 9/11 theory.

“He pushed for co-ed education, he pushed for an entire river dorm building, which didn’t have electricity and proper water to be renovated and fixed,” she said.

“Whenever there was a problem on campus David stood on a soapbox, and he got the job done.”

John Smith, who works at the barbershop across the street

from the county courthouse, said the rally’s gesture was good, but he was not supportive of the effort.

“We’ll never know how they came down, just like we’ll never know who killed John F. Kennedy,” he said. “We can only speculate, whoever designed it are the only people who knew, and they’re probably dead.”

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth will also screen a documentar y featuring engineers and architects who claim the fire was not the cause for the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, Meiswinkle said.

“The documentary is narrated by actor Ed Asner, who supports the organization,” he said.

After the 10-year anniversary of the attacks, the organization plans to speak to Congress and ask them to reinvestigate the events that lead to the collapse of the World Trade Center, he said.

Meiswinkle said the 9/11 Commission report left many details out, and even former N.J. state Gov. Thomas Kean agrees it was set up to fail.

“Justice has not been done.

Instead the report ripped a giant hole in the soul of the country,” he said. “We respect law enforcement. We’re saying that they are the guardians of the society, they are the protectors, and that’s why we invited them here.

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OPINIONS

PA G E 1 0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

EDITORIALS

Week in review: laurels and darts

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t is highly likely that, at some point during the course of your undergraduate career, you are going to find yourself — or have already found yourself — spending an entire day in the librar y. Those who find themselves spending said day in the Alexander Librar y on the College Avenue campus can at least look for ward to some small solace in the form of the brand new Scarlet Latte, a café in the librar y’s basement. While the presence of a café may not make a day spent in the stacks a total breeze, it is, at the ver y least, a ver y nice way to break the monotony and relax for a while before returning to the academic grind. We give the Scarlet Latte a laurel. *

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Gov. Chris Christie may be the most entertaining politician of our time — one could conceivably start a Twitter dedicated to the brash and borderline ridiculous things he says. Sometimes, though, Christie lets his coarse manners get the best of him, as he did at a press conference this past Wednesday. In an effort to promote Atlantic City, Christie took a potshot at one of America’s other gambling meccas, Las Vegas. Speaking of people who go to Las Vegas during the summer, Christie said, “Why would you go to the middle of the desert in the summer? You’d have to be stupid to do that.” Stupid seems like a needlessly strong word in this scenario. Christie must know that there are other ways to encourage tourism to Atlantic City, ways that don’t resort to name-calling.

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It seems like one can access Wi-Fi networks ever ywhere these days, with the obvious exception of most deserts and jungles. Such uninhabited areas may not be exceptions for much longer, though.

Iridium Communications Inc., a satellite phone company, plans on launching a small box which, when hooked up to an Iridium phone, creates a Wi-Fi hotspot anywhere in the world. The technology is expensive — the box costs under $200, but the phone goes for $1000, and the data connection is a hefty $1 per minute — but we can foresee a day when, like most advancements, this technology becomes cheap and affordable. We give Iridium a laurel for this development, and we look for ward to seeing this technology advance even further. *

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When we hear the word “totalitarian,” we think of Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, not the Pledge of Allegiance.

Brookline Political Action for Peace, a group from Brookline, Mass., however, thinks the Pledge fits squarely into the totalitarian categor y. Because of this, they are seeking to ban the Pledge from public schools in the town, in an effort to make students more comfortable and prevent bullying. Honestly, we’re having a tough time coming up with words to say in this matter. The group’s efforts to see the pledge banned seem so obviously extreme and misguided that, well, all we can do is scratch our heads and hand them a dar t. *

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Despite the over whelming amount of evidence supporting the theor y of evolution, there still exists a surprising amount of nonbelievers. Even some members of America’s political elite refuse to recognize the truth of evolution. Because of this, it’s always comforting to see new evidence brought to the foreground. A set of bones found in South Africa has brought even more serious ammunition for the pro-evolution side. Analysis of these skeletons has revealed that the creatures these bones belong to had a mixture of human and ape traits. Such skeletons demonstrate a clear link between modern humans and their pre-human ancestors. The scientists involved in the discover y and analysis of these bones receive laurels for working to advance scientific knowledge.

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n a recent column entidebated in a calm, safe and tled “Protect real freerational way. Allowing such dom of speech” (The expression is wholly sepaDaily Targum, Sept. 6), the rate from agreeing with or GREGORY S. BLIMLING author exhorts students to sponsoring the views “actively seek the truth.” expressed therein. It is a This author has freely expressed his opinions about fundamental tenet of a liberal education that stucertain events on campus over the past year in his dents be exposed to a marketplace of ideas and biweekly column. In one column last year, he that they be able to discern for themselves what referred to the image of the University as “a partythey believe. We strive to teach students how to ing cesspool of N.J. meatheads” (The Daily think, not what to think. To that end, we will conTargum, April 18). tinue to provide forums for all sides of ever y issue While most of his piece is clearly personal to express their viewpoints. opinion, the author has stated purported facts that The University welcomes healthy discourse, are inaccurate or misleading because they omit discussion and dialogue among students, both as certain details. For example, the author refers to individuals and within student organizations. The an incident in the fall semester of 2009 during pursuit of higher education requires the developwhat he calls a “heated school-wide debate” about ment of each person’s voice and perspective, so whether a certain charity should be supported by they may fully engage the intellectual experience a meal swipe program. The incident in question of college. Limiting free speech and free expresfollowed a Rutgers University sion would not only violate the Student Assembly meeting, when principles of our University, it “Intolerance and some students resorted to inapprowould stifle the ver y intellectual priately name-calling other stugrowth we are hoping to foster in bigotry are dents, and those students respondeach member of our community. ed with equally offensive nameIndeed, it is this ver y commitment antithetical to calling. As a result of a phone call to free expression and an open the values from one of the administrators, dialogue that allows the author to Rutgers University Police describe the image of his fellow of the University.”

Department responded to the verstudents and his alma mater as “a bal altercation, but no arrests were partying cesspool of N.J. meatmade. The author also states that he filed a bias heads.” Although I strongly disagree with his incident report and implies that he heard no characterization of our University and our sturesponse from the University for 30 days. In fact, dents, I acknowledge and support his right to College Avenue campus Dean of Students express his opinion, even when that opinion Timothy Grimm met with the author within 24 is misinformed. hours of the filing of his complaint. Grimm then After all, membership in the University comconducted a thorough investigation. munity carries with it a duty we owe each other Federal law precludes the University from to respect the rights of those whose views may publicly disclosing the results of an investigation differ from our own. Dialogue and disagreement of alleged student misconduct. The author may about any issue, but especially hotly contested be dissatisfied with the University’s responses to political issues, mandates that special attention the various incidents he cites, but the University must be paid to civility and decency. Part of one’s handled each incident appropriately. In all cases, right to free speech is the responsibility to hear the University adhered to its Policy Against other perspectives with respect and openness. It Verbal Assault, Harassment, Intimidation, is not necessar y that such dialogues result in Bullying and Defamation. agreement, but they must not result in contempt, Although the heated nature of arguments open hostility or personal attacks. Intolerance involving strongly held opinions could make peoand bigotr y are antithetical to the values of the ple feel like victims, it is vital to remember that University and the expectations that students there are multiple valid viewpoints on many conbring to their experience here. tentious issues students are likely to discuss at the University. We believe that a university comGregory S. Blimling is the vice president for munity is at its best when diverse and sometimes Student Affairs. conflicting opinions can openly be expressed and

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I only knew them because I studied them. It was just you either knew it or didn’t. That was the hardest part.”

School of Arts and Sciences senior Eddie Murphy, on the vocabulary portion of the new GRE STORY IN UNIVERSITY

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Get involved with activities, organizations on campus Letter HARINI KIDAMBI t is no doubt a hectic time at the University, regardless of how many credits you have.

Upperclassmen are furiously writing personal statements, asking for letters of recommendation and editing résumés for graduate and professional schools or looking for jobs. Others are trying to figure out how to explain their year off to mom and dad. As underclassmen, you are either learning or reacquainting yourself with our sprawling campus, trying to remember why taking the F bus might be a better decision than taking the EE, and taking a deep breath as you realize that you still have more than half of your undergraduate career left to complete.

Since I fall into the former category, I have little to no advice to

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give to its members. For the latter, however, I have a simple message to share. As a child, I was always strangely fascinated by “Baking with Julia,” so it’s no surprise that it is Julia Child’s words that I wish to impress upon those of you still figuring out where you fit on our campus. She said, “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” Few of us are so lucky to find what we are passionate about at such a young age, and even fewer of us are able to pursue that thing.

My message today is not that you must discover the one or many things that you are passionate about in your remaining years at the University. Rather, my message to you is to spend your time taking advantage of the school’s endless resources searching for it.

It may not be easy.

Academically, you will have

difficult classes, strict professors and unbelievably high expectations for yourself and the challenge of wrapping your head around Degree Navigator and Sakai. Socially, you will be adjusting to unprecedented independence, a completely new circle of friends and possibly be

“If you look hard enough, you’ll find at least one thing that incites your passions.” dealing with a communal bathroom. It’s a lot to deal with, but if you will pardon my cliché, as a senior, I must emphasize that it’s not so much what you learn inside of the classroom as what you have the potential to learn outside of it.

I don’t expect you to singlehandedly spearhead a campaign across campus or to create your own organization complete with more than 100 members. But when you’re walking into Scott Hall on the College Avenue campus, and you see fliers posted on the walls of your classrooms, and you find an organization that sounds interesting, go to a meeting.

You might not know anyone there, the meeting might be late at night and maybe not on your campus, but don’t let those become excuses. You never know, you could find that thing that captures your imagination and changes your life.

And if not, that’s fine. You can keep on tr ying.

If you are looking for a star t, the Darien Fund for the U.S. Constitution, Citizenship, and Civic Engagement is holding

two events — a Constitution Day fair across all five campuses on Sept. 16 from 11-3 p.m., and a debate exploring whether you have a right to a free education on Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. followed by a Civic Engagement Fair.

There are more than 400 organizations, 150 specialized centers and institutes, 70 fraternities and sororities, 19 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools and exactly five campuses at the University. Chances are, if you look hard enough, you’ll find at least one thing that incites your passions to keep you tremendously interested.

Harini Kidambi is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in political science and public health, with a minor in South Asian studies. She is a Darien Ambassador for the Darien Fund.

Exercise choice, not censorship, when offended Letter SAMUEL FIRMENICH o further elaborate on the column, “Free speech applies to everyone” in yesterday’s issue of The Daily Targum, the idea of censorship to the First Amendment has been a never-ending conflict between law and citizens. The laws in the United States apply to everyone within the jurisdiction of this nation. But rights, such as freedom of speech, only apply to citizens protected by the Bill of Rights under the U.S. Constitution. The Bill of Rights was written for those who are citizens. To infer that free speech applies to everyone is a valid fallacy under this document for those who are illegal

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immigrants or visitors of this countr y. It’s safe to say that amendments are the most scrutinized and often debated laws in our courts since the time of our existence. Many Supreme Court decisions were made in order to dispute such rights. This debacle has caused conflict and further intensifies political tension that can easily overshadow rational or educated beliefs to protect liberty and positive progress, but this is where the First Amendment currently stands.

I will agree that the First Amendment is constantly under “attack” by those “offended” by “offenders” to hinder its expressions by censoring what can be said. It’s a fundamental principle of choice of whether a person should listen to or believe

someone or some entity exercising their right in the First Amendment. It’s a citizen’s choice to choose what religion to practice, TV show to watch, music to listen to, goods and services to purchase and what

“We shall live with liberty and justice for all.” media propaganda or advertisements to believe. Only education can give a citizen the proper tools to make a decisive, thoughtful decision to follow the laws and make the righteous choices.

Censorship is not the answer for law-abiding citizens who express

their freedom. For example, First Amendment pioneer Howard Stern was often seen as abusive toward this right, and many people thought he shouldn’t be allowed to have his show on public radio. Although his radio show contained explicit or inappropriate content, listeners still had the choice to listen or simply change the radio station. No one was forced to listen to his show, and in fact, many proponents of his show continued to follow. There’s no reason to punish those who want to listen to a radio jockey during their morning commute if they believe or want to engage with what he says.

The capitalist U.S. government has created laws to ensure that there is choice among media and economic entities to prevent

monopolies and a “dictatorship” of power over the people. This was the ver y reasoning this countr y was founded: The American Revolution grasped the people in the 13 colonies to fight the tyranny of those who want to oppress the ideology which America set down in the Constitution. Our Founding Fathers gave us these rights to use them, to avoid persecution and live with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — thanks to the bravery and courage of the many who fought for these freedoms. And for that, I’m not sorry, because we shall live with liberty and justice for all.

Samuel Firmenich is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in geography with a minor in history.

Consider questions carefully before asking in class

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ooray! It’s a new year! We’ve got classes, professors, annoying roommates, alcohol flowing like the Nile — you know, standard University fare. Except that this time, I’m a senior, and I just want to drive one point home. In a word, there are always bad questions.

“Bad questions?” you say. “I thought there were no such things? Doesn’t every professor insist otherwise?” No, they don’t.

Maybe that flew in high school, but in college, these guys are already inconvenienced enough by actually teaching things when they’d rather be researching, fundraising or writing papers. They don’t want to be interrupted by some silly undergraduate unless it’s for a good reason.

But suppose you do decide to ask a question. Here’s the scene: A classic classroom environment, a professor lecturing (one who most likely knows exactly what they’re talking about), and you, out of spite, hubris or genuine confusion, decide to interrupt the professor by raising your hand and posing a question.

This will result in one of several things — either they’ll ignore you, acknowledge you but keep on talking, or straight-up stop and say, “Yes, anonymous undergraduate, what do you have to say?” It’s when

the latter happens No — learning, that you had better real learning, is be sure your about suffering question was a through the ABE STANWAY good one. unknown, going And so here’s over it again and where I tell you the difference between a again and again, attacking it from every good question and a bad question, and as angle, tasting and chewing and digesting it such, the difference between needlessly until it’s nothing but a harmless pile of interrupting a professor speaking and stomach acid, bile and theorems. Or willingly throwing a massive wrench in adverbs or protein structures, or whatever their mentally churning gears. else you happen to be studying.

Plainly and simply, it’s a matter of effort.

Of course, this sort of task takes a lot The first time you think of your question, of effort. It requires an amount of thinktry to answer it yourself. ing and general drudgery “But I really don’t know the that most of us would “In a word, answer!” Oh? Is that so? rather avoid, and that’s Remember that part where why instead of thinking all there are always you’re an undergraduate the time, we just ask quesbad questions.” who doesn’t know jack tions in the hopes that our about anything? Yeah, that. professors will spoon-feed Obviously you’re not going us a predigested answer, to know the answer. That’s a state of mind not unlike a baby bird begging its mother you had better get used to. This is why we for vomitus. come here to learn.

This isn’t to say that you should never But what does learning entail? Is it just ask questions. It just means that if you’ve a matter of showing up and asking for expended a substantial amount of energy knowledge? If that’s what you think, you in trying to figure it out for yourself, and should probably drop out, save your you still don’t know the answer, then money and enroll in Google University. maybe you should raise your hand. I only

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semi-condone this because your question is still probably terrible and trivial, but at least the chances are a bit higher that it actually might turn out to be a good one.

And what kinds of questions do I wholeheartedly back? It’s those questions that meet the professor on the level they’re playing at, at the speed they’re running. It’s the ones that are slightly tinged with annoyance, because they stopped just short of covering the area about which you were desperately curious. The questions that intend to trip the professor up, to make them go in directions that they probably hadn’t planned on going at all. In short, the ones that make them think. Why should we, the students, be the only ones busting our asses? Make them start sweating!

If you apply my advice to your questionasking career, you’ll find that you generally piss fewer people off, and you may even impress a professor or two. You might find that you learn a few things. And if nothing else, remember that life is full of opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Abe Stanway is a School of Arts and Sciences senior majoring in philosophy and computer science.

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Freshmen bolster young squad

BY JOEY GREGORY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers men’s golf team experienced a 2010-2011 season that, if nothing else, fell shor t of MEN’S GOLF its goals.

A 12th-place finish at the Big East Championships was not quite what rookie head coach Chris Mazzuchetti envisioned.

But that has not deterred him from setting his sights as high as they were last year.

“We want to win,” Mazzuchetti said. “We want to get Rutgers to be known as one of the best teams in the Big East.”

The exposure will come with consistency and steady improvement throughout the season.

To help the Scarlet Knights reach their goals, Mazzuchetti successfully recruited Clark, N.J., native Jacob Stockl.

One of the most highly touted recruits in the state, Stockl finished second out of 156 players in the New Jersey State High School Tour nament of Champions.

Stockl also finished second in a playoff at the North Jersey Group 2 Sectional Tournament, and has six wins on the New Jersey State Golf Association (NJSGA) junior circuit.

“He has really established himself as one of the better

players in New Jersey,” Mazzuchetti said. “We’re really excited about keeping him in New Jersey and having him come to Rutgers.”

In addition to Stockl, Rutgers adds Nor wood, N.J., native Hyung Mo Kim, who is also well established on the NJSGA junior tour.

But while Mazzuchetti adds two of the most well regarded jun-

JOHN FAGAN ior golfers in the state, he loses his captain, Chris Frame.

Frame will be tough to replace, both as a player and as a leader on what was a ver y young and inexperienced team. “[Frame] was a huge asset for telling me about what was what with the team, like in matters like team chemistr y,” Mazzuchetti said.

Two returning players stepped up and assumed the roles of co-captains.

Junior John Fagan and sophomore Doug Walters took the reigns from Frame as team

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A pair of complementary tailbacks and big-time wideout Dwight Jones pose already established threats.

leaders and impressed Mazzuchetti from the start. “[Walters and Fagan] have both risen to the occasion and taken the job ver y seriously,” Mazzuchetti said. “They have really stepped up in their new role.”

Not only have the new cocaptains taken hold of their jobs, but the still-young team also has some experience, and Mazzuchetti thinks it can use that combination of youth and experience to their advantage.

“We’re looking for the returning players to mature and grow,” he said. “We have the right kids in place to keep the team going.”

The team’s experience will come in handy if it wants to reach its ultimate goal, which did not change from last season.

“We want to win the Big East Championship,” Mazzuchetti said. “Year-in and year-out, that will be our goal.”

The Knights begin their fall schedule on Sept. 16 at home with the Rutgers Invitational.

The team competes in three more tournaments this fall, culminating in Pennsylvania for the Lehigh University Invitational.

The Knights compete in four more tournaments in the spring before they enter into the Big East Championships, starting on April 29 in Palm Harbor, Fla.

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The Tar Heels’ have a projected top-10 NFL Draft pick in Quinton Coples, more than RU can say.

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Tar Heels quarterback Bryn Renner completed 22-of-23 passes in the opener. That’s momentum.

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Frank Cignetti called UNC’s offense in 2006, but now he is on Rutgers’ side with a pro-style system.

CALLER: Schiano enjoys interacting in meeting rooms continued from back “That’s where you truly get to know the guys,” he said.

When he is not meeting with the whole defense, he is with the secondary — a unit that takes pride in representing their coach, who coached the Chicago Bears’ defensive backfield before becoming defensive coordinator at Miami.

“I think there’s more responsibility per man,” said sophomore cornerback Logan Ryan. “The head coach of the football team is coaching your side of the ball.

He’s defensive-minded, he’s a tough guy and we want to play hard for him.”

The Week 1 results were a success.

Rutgers had 15 tackles for a loss, nine sacks, four takeaways

and scored 14 more points than it allowed in a shutout.

“I think the things everyone saw — two touchdowns on defense, the sack numbers and the tackles for loss — those are the things that are important for a defense like ours, which is pressuring you and coming after you,” said Vallone, a defensive tackle.

The infusion of speed allows Schiano to return to the style that defined the team’s rise to prominence in 2006, when it ranked fourth in the nation in total defense.

That ranking dropped to No. 65 last season, the lowest mark since 2004, before Schiano took the Knights to five consecutive bowl games.

Ray Rice was the national face of the program in 2006, but an Eric Foster-led defense was the heart, and that is what Schiano aims to return to.

“Our defense handles our defense and a lot of our special

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“This is exactly what we need. This is defining us. It’s going to be a tough one, but get ready.

We’re going to be prepared for it.” teams. We have a lot of defenders and starters on there,” Ryan said.

“That’s a little less than two-thirds of the game, so I think our defense is the personality of our whole team, and that’s the personality of our head coach.”

That personality is hardnosed, intense and attacking.

Some of it formed under former North Carolina head coach Butch Davis, who was the head coach in Miami and mentored Schiano. Davis is out of Chapel Hill, N.C., now, but the scheme becomes even more important in a game Rowe, Vallone and Justin Francis all believe can define this season.

That definition begins on defense, and now defense begins with Schiano.

“Just to have him being back to more hands on with us and calling the defense, it feels like home,” Greene said. “It feels like that’s where coach should have been the whole time.”

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BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER

With a bulk of their non-conference schedule under its belt, t h e VOLLEYBALL Rutgers SUNY BINGHAMTON volleyball t e a m AT RUTGERS, t e s t s TONIGHT, 7 P.M. m o r e than its 45 record this weekend at the Rutgers Invitational Tournament.

A Friday night matchup at the College Avenue Gym features SUNY Binghamton and a Scarlet Knights team looking to redeem itself after tripping up in Hempstead, N.Y., Tuesday night at Hofstra.

Dropping the match, 3-1, the Knights look to rebound against the Bearcats.

Testing the progression of the program, CJ Werneke’s squad tries to prove the team has made strides since its 2008 meeting with the Bearcats.

In his inaugural campaign at Rutgers, Werneke and his staff took on Binghamton at the Northern Arizona Tournament.

Outmatched, the Knights dropped the match, 3-0, and continued to be outplayed the rest of the season. A 2-22 record presented Werneke plenty of room for major improvements to the program.

Werneke improved the Knights over the next two seasons with a 10-win season in 2009 and one better in 2010.

“For us it will be a good indicator of where our program has come,” the fourth-year coach said. “There are some players in our program now that played in that match, so for them to see us moving in the right direction, it will be exciting.”

Seniors Hannah Curtis and Kallie Pence contributed greatly the past four years for the Knights.

Curtis and Pence were both standouts as rookies, leading the team in blocks and assists, respectively. The seniors led by example since then and showed improvement with a youthful squad.

Taking one match at a time, Curtis and Pence understand Werneke’s system and philosophy. The pair hopes to continue the winning trend for the Knights, but also look to inspire a program that struggled in the past.

Binghamton will give the duo satisfaction, but a potential threegame sweep this weekend would be a true sign of a winning program in New Brunswick.

Meanwhile, a match against in-state rival Princeton on Saturday morning is what Werneke describes as “a real big battle.”

“A half hour away from our campus, we’re familiar with them and there have been some good matches,” Werneke said. “It becomes real meaningful against in-state rivals.”

Coming off a win at St. John’s, the Tigers enter New Brunswick with a wind in their back.

Princeton enters the match at 4-1 overall, seeking redemption after dropping the last three matches to Rutgers.

The Knights also face Howard this weekend, when the Bison try for their first win this season.

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Three-game skid runs into 12th-ranked UNH

BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT

When an outsider looks at the Rutgers field hockey team’s 1-3 record, it FIELD HOCKEY does not look like a RUTGERS AT team ready NEW HAMPSHIRE, to take on SATURDAY, 1 P.M. an elite opponent at this point in the short season.

But the Scarlet Knights plan to use tomorrow’s match against No. 12 New Hampshire to prove that wrong and attempt to right the ship amid a three-game losing streak.

The Knights’ record is a bit misleading, as all their losses came within a total of two goals, one goal and three goals in the past three games, respectively.

But the Knights have not faced a team quite like the 4-0 Wildcats, although they see opportunity against an opponent of this caliber.

“[A win] will make us all realize the type of play that we need to beat teams like that, and smother teams that aren’t as good as them,” said junior forward Carlie Rouh.

The Knights must put more balls in the net in order to have a chance in Durham, N.H. The task will be difficult against a Wildcats team that allowed only three goals in four games.

Rutgers’ practices all week focused on fine-tuning the offensive side in order to capitalize on opportunities against the UNH defense.

“We’ve been really hard on each other this week to make sure that everything’s close to perfect,” Rouh said. “If someone’s not stepping into their role, we’ll call them out and tell them to pick it up.”

The Knights have had shot opportunities. They got off 20 shots in their past two games, but the only shot that put a point on the board was Rouh’s on Friday against William & Mary.

Head coach Liz Tchou thinks that with slight adjustments, the offense will work more efficiently. “[We need to be] able to be more balanced, so we have numbers in the circle,” she said. “They can’t be just numbers crowding the goal. They need to get into the scoring areas on the field.”

For every missed opportunity to score, the Knights’ opponents exploited that failure to create or maintain a lead, so Rutgers now focuses on fixing up the defensive end, as well.

“We’ve been working a lot on our constant communication defensively and defensive structure,” Tchou said. “Our past three games, it was off. We’re not protecting the spine to the goal.”

Rutgers needs that protection against a UNH squad that averages 21.2 shots per game, compared to the Knights’ 9.3.

Although the Knights have the disadvantage of heading into their first road game of the year

against a Wildcats team that executed against all its opponents, Tchou thinks the Knights can pull off the upset if all goes as planned.

But more importantly, the Knights have to figure out how to execute such planning.

“I’m not going to really focus them on the winning aspect,” Tchou said. “When I was on the national team, we used to say, ‘Win, but win what’s important now.’ It’s more important for us to focus on our communication, how we present ourselves on the field and the details.”

Even though winning is not the priority, perhaps the Knights can be victorious if they execute the game plan they rigorously practiced all week.

And although ending the losing streak against elite competition would get the team out of its funk, the Knights know getting on the right track is about more than the result against the Wildcats.

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Ivys represent building blocks for postseason success

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

With just two games remaining in its nonconference WOMEN’S SOCCER schedule, t h e YALE AT Rutgers women’s RUTGERS, soccer TONIGHT, 7 P.M. team has

little time to forge the necessar y foundation prior to its Big East season.

Some of the bricks have been laid, evidenced in the Scarlet Knights’ three victories to date and tightly contested games against No. 15 Boston College and No. 6 UCLA. But in entertaining a pair of Ivy Leaguers this weekend, the

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Rutgers will play its first game without senior Karla Schacher this weekend after the forward tore her ACL in California.

final two bricks are put into play for head coach Glenn Crooks and Co. Now the Knights just have to keep building.

“The thing I like is that ever y day has gotten a little better, whether it’s in training or in our matches,” Crook said.

“We’ve progressed well and the mentality of the team right now is ver y good,” First up for Rutgers is Yale (1-0-2), which arrives in Piscataway unbeaten.

The Bulldogs own just one win in three matches while averaging a goal per game, but boast just two players with goals to their name.

Their leading scorer, freshman Meredith Speck, notched two goals through the first three games of her rookie campaign and tallied six of the team’s 34 shots.

Rutgers’ defense, captained by junior back Shannon Woeller, has done well in suppressing offenses at home this season, allowing a combined 11 shots in those games.

Still, Crooks remembers the room for growth his team displayed defensively in a 1-0

home-opening win against Drexel and in a 4-1 victor y against Fordham. Countless times the Knights lacked pressure in their ball control, while also turning the ball over to their opponents at various moments.

Making similar mistakes may not be so kind to the Knights against their Ivy League foes, especially not against the upcoming Big East competition.

“You’ve got to win at home,” Crooks said. “You’ve got to take care of business at home. In our home opener we didn’t play good soccer, we didn’t defend well, and it was just kind of a ho-hum match. I think we’re ready now to step up both of those areas.”

After suffering a knee sprain against Loyola Mar ymount, sophomore for ward Jonelle Filigno is ready to get back onto the field and back to her scoring ways, especially with the Knights’ most recent roster blow.

Fifth-year senior Karla Schacher will miss the rest of the year after tearing her ACL against UCLA, leaving a burden on freshmen like Stefanie Scholz and Cassie Inacio.

Scholz tallied an assist to Inacio early against Fordham to score the only points for the two classmates through five contests.

Even with the offensive void, Filigno is just happy to be returning home after the Knights’ arduous trip west.

“I’m excited always to play in front of our home crowd,” Filigno said. “We’re definitely going to be excited, and we’re hoping it’s going to be a good [Big East] season for us.”

The Knights close their Ivy League weekend against Dartmouth (1-2s ) on Sunday, but by that time Crooks should know how well his team tackled its nonconference schedule.

And if not Sunday, then surely next Friday, when the Knights begin laying the foundation for a conference championship run.

“I’ve heard a lot of players talk about the conference,” Crooks said. “I know they’re ready. It all happens fast, but we’ve got a big weekend this weekend. We’ve got to take care of the intellect from the Ivy’s then take care of business from there.”

Head coach prefers difficult non-conference schedule

BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

Rutgers head men’s soccer coach Dan Donigan preaches to his team MEN’S SOCCER that before it meets a DREXEL AT challenge, RUTGERS, it has to be SATURDAY, 7 P.M. properly prepared for it.

That is why he feels lucky to have a schedule with primarily nonconference games before heading into a latter half of the season that consists of seven Big East opponents in a row.

The Scarlet Knights face the next team on their out-of-conference preparation stretch on Saturday at Drexel (0-2).

“That’s kind of our philosophy to get real quality opponents out of conference to put yourself in a good position as you enter what’s considered one of the best conferences in the country,” Donigan said. “We really have the best of both worlds with our schedule and the games that we play.”

As far as the players are concerned, they are on board with their divided schedule.

“Coach has done a great job with our schedule this year. We have a lot of big nonconference games,” said junior goalkeeper Adam Klink. “Big East is a tough conference, and we’ll definitely be prepared for that.”

As far as tune-up matches go, Drexel offers a tough challenge for the Knights (2-1). Although the Dragons have two losses on the season, their defeats occurred against two of the nation’s top teams, including No. 6 Creighton.

And while Donigan does not know specifics about the Dragons, he is aware of their ability to get physical with the Knights.

“We don’t know much about Drexel’s game plan, but we know the basics,” he said. “We know they are going to be a physical opponent. They are athletic, they are big, and they are strong.”

The main objective to the number of quality non-Big East opponents for the Knights is to get the team’s numerous

newcomers accustomed to their style of play. So far, the rookies have not let anyone down.

True freshmen Nathan Bruccoleri and J.P. Correa notched their first goals in a Rutgers uniform in the Knights’ season-opening win, while transfers Joe Setchell and Kene Eze did likewise against Charleston.

Correa’s early season performance earned him a spot on the all-tournament team at the Nike/Aaron Olitsky Memorial Classic last weekend along with Setchell, who also earned the role of team captain.

“We are well-pleased with the newcomers right now even though it’s still very early. These guys have done a very good job,” Donigan said. “We are very wellpleased with the impact guys like Joe Setchell bring. There are the intangibles that you don’t see on the field, as well — just the level of maturity and experience and attitude to our team that we desperately needed.”

While the newcomers make their contributions, the returning veterans learn from the changes on the team, as well.

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Freshman forward JP Correa scored his first career goal in the Knights’ season opener against La Salle, a 3-1 victory.

“In actuality, I think the guys who are returning have done a pretty good job, too, this year,” Donigan said.

“They’re kind of learning from our transition as to what we need to be doing and how we need to be doing it. Overall, that leadership has been much better this year.”

The Knights hope the veterans and newcomers gel into a fine-

tuned machine by the time Big East play rolls around in late September, but first they must meet their nonconference challenges.

And the next challenge they face is Drexel tomorrow on the Knights’ home turf.

“We had our first win of the season at home [against La Salle], so we’re hoping to keep it like that against Drexel,” Klink said. “We don’t lose at home.”

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GAME 2: Kenan Memorial Stadium, 12:30 p.m. TV: SNY RADIO: 1450 AM

Skilled d-line presents matchup issue

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers sophomore Antwan Lower y spent his childhood in Miami watching future NFL defensive tackles Warren Sapp and Vince Wilfork cause chaos in the trenches at the Orange Bowl.

Now a starting right guard for the Scarlet Knights, Lowery earns his first shot to go toe-to-toe with another defensive lineman destined to be a first-round pick Saturday in North Carolina’s Quinton Coples.

The 6-foot-6, 290-pound Coples is a preseason consensus top-10 pick, and he showed why last season in Piscataway, racking up three sacks in a 17-13 Tar Heels victory.

“They play great with their hands,” Lowery said of the UNC defensive line. “They move well.

They have great athletes. We have to contain their athletes, stick to our game plan and continue to work from start to finish.”

Head coach Greg Schiano expects Coples in particular to line up all over the line of scrimmage when the Knights venture into Kenan Memorial Stadium tomorrow to battle North Carolina.

Coples, a Bednarik Award semifinalist for the nation’s top defensive player, has an advantage on any Rutgers offensive lineman he faces, Schiano said.

A recruited defensive lineman, Lowery has the insight to detect Coples’ various moves, but all signs point toward a matchup predicated on slowing down the Tar Heels’ pass rush as a whole.

“It’s going to be a dogfight from start to finish,” Lowery said. “Football, period, is a game for men. Our squad is just going to go out and play our ballgame and do what we have to do.”

But unlike the teams’ last two matchups, games UNC won by a combined score of 61-25, the Knights now sport a dynamic running game, albeit one with little experience.

Freshman Savon Huggins, the Knights’ highest-rated recruit in program history, rushed for a pair of touchdowns in Rutgers’ seasonopening victor y over North Carolina Central.

And when Huggins steps on the field in Chapel Hill, N.C., it will not be for the first time.

Heavily recruited by the Tar Heels, Huggins spurned UNC at his announcement ceremony in

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PASSING CMP YDS TD INT. AVG. 0 113.0 C. Dodd 52.9% 113 1

CMP YDS TD INT. AVG. PASSING B. Renner 95.7% 277 2 1 277.0

RUSHING NO. YDS TD LNG AVG. 44 0 12 D. Williams 11 4.0 32 2 10 8 S. Huggins 3.2

RUSHING G. Bernard R. Houston

NO. YDS TD LNG AVG. 7.1 9 64 2 14 3.7 16 59 1 8

RECEIVING NO. YDS TD LNG AVG. 68 1 20 7 M. Sanu 9.7 47 0 34 23.5 2 M. Harrison 13 0 11 2 J. Martinek 6.5 44 1 44 44.0 1 B. Coleman

RECEIVING D. Jones E. Highsmith R. Houston C. Wilson

NO. YDS TD 9 116 2 4 47 0 3 36 0 2 37 0

TKL SCK 2 4 2 4 0 3

DEFENSE

J. Francis S. Vallone D. Harmon

INT 0 0 2

Greg Schiano spoke to freshman tailback Savon Huggins (28) this week about what to expect from a potentially hostile North Carolina crowd.

January at St. Peter’s Prep in Jersey City, ripping off a North Carolina hat to reveal his real destination, Rutgers, underneath.

For the Knights to steal one against the Tar Heels — likely chomping at the bit for a shot at Huggins — Schiano preached composure.

“Playing on the road is another dynamic,” he said. “I think certain teams handle it really well and almost embrace playing on the road, and [for] other teams, it can be an intimidating force. I think this team will embrace it. I think they like the ‘us against the world’ mentality. But until you do it, every team’s different.”

On the defensive side of the ball, the Knights face an entirely different set of challenges.

UNC sophomore quarterback Bryn Renner never let a ball hit the ground in the team’s season opener against James Madison, completing 22 passes to Tar Heels and one to a JMU defender.

Wide receiver Dwight Jones nearly eclipsed 1,000 yards receiving last season and running back Ryan Houston is the epitome of a bruiser in the Tar Heels’ I-formation.

UNC interim head coach

Everett Withers believes the Tar Heels face a similar offense on the opposite side of the ball.

“They have three guys that really are talented at running the football,” Withers said of the Rutgers offense.

“And they have some kids on the perimeter receiver-wise that really scare you with size and speed. They have weapons in the right spots.”

While former head coach Butch Davis no longer mans the UNC sidelines after numerous NCAA violations ultimately sealed his fate, the philosophy in Chapel Hill remains the same.

Withers is still there, albeit with an interim tag instead of running the defense, and offensive coordinator John Shoop still calls the plays.

Coples is the program’s next Julius Peppers in waiting, after former UNC d-linemen Robert Quinn and Marvin Austin earned tickets last season to the NFL. And the Knights still believe they have a shot to play spoiler.

“This is exactly what we need. This is defining us,” said fifth-year senior defensive tackle Justin Francis. “It’s going to be a tough one, but get ready.

We’re going to be prepared for it.”

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Z. Brown T. Boston Q. Coples

LNG 34 37 20 22

AVG. 12.9 11.8 12.0 18.5

TKL SCK 6 1 5 0 3 2

INT 0 0 0

INJURIES Out — FB D. Ramsay

INJURIES Questionable — LG D. Wynn, DE M. Booker Out — DB R. Knight

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Noon TBA TBA 8 p.m.

7 p.m.

TBA 3:30 p.m.

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James Madison W, 42-10 12:30 p.m.

3:30 p.m.

Virginia TBA Georgia Tech 8 p.m.

East Carolina TBA Louisville TBA Miami TBA Clemson TBA Wake Forest TBA NC State 8 p.m.

Virginia Tech TBA Duke Rutgers

Key Matchup Rutgers offensive line vs. UNC DE Quinton Coples It will take a team effort to slow down North Carolina’s defensive line, which is led by potential top-10 NFL Draft pick Quinton Coples. The senior had three of the Tar Heels’ nine sacks last season in Piscataway, but Rutgers has a new-look line.

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP: OFFENSE

MOHAMED SANU Wide Receiver

ANDRE CIVIL Tackle

DESMOND WYNN Guard

DAVID OSEI Center

ANTWAN LOWERY Guard

DESMOND STAPLETON Tackle

PAUL CARREZOLA Tight end

MARK HARRISON Wide Receiver

CHAS DODD Quarterback

JOE MARTINEK Fullback

DE’ANTWAN WILLIAMS Running Back

Junior 6’-2”, 215 lbs.

Sophomore 6’-3”, 275 lbs.

Senior 6’-6”, 295 lbs.

Sophomore 6’-4”, 280 lbs.

Sophomore 6’-4”, 301 lbs.

Senior 6’-5”, 280 lbs.

Sophomore 6’-2”, 241 lbs

Junior 6’-3”, 230 lbs

Sophomore 6’-0”, 200 lbs

Senior 6’-0”, 220 lbs

Junior 6’-8”, 193 lbs

BRANDON JONES Cornerback

DURON HARMON Strong Safety

DAVID ROWE Free Safety

LOGAN RYAN Cornerback

Junior 6’-1”, 186 lbs

Junior 6’-1”, 201 lbs

Senior 6’-0”, 195 lbs

Sophomore 6’-0”, 190 lbs

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP: DEFENSE

MICHAEL LARROW Right end

JUSTIN FRANCIS Tackle

SCOTT VALLONE Tackle

MANNY ABREU Left end

JAMAL MERRELL Linebacker

STEVE BEAUHARNAIS

Linebacker

KHASEEM GREENE Linebacker

Sophomore 6’-4”, 265 lbs

Senior 6’-4”, 275 lbs

Junior 6’-3”, 275 lbs

Senior 6’-3”, 260 lbs

Sophomore 6’-4”, 220 lbs

Junior 6’-2”, 235 lbs

Junior 6’-1”, 220 lbs

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SIGNAL

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Schiano refocuses attention on defense as aggressive playcalling, speed returns to Piscataway

UNC’s Quinton Coples leads a dynamic d-line tomorrow against the Knights, who did not allow a sack in Week 1 against NC Central. pg. 19

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Scott Vallone first saw it in 2006 and 2007, when Rutgers recruited him — an aggressive defense that defined the team’s success.

Khaseem Greene saw FOOTBALL it as a redshirt freshman, when each defensive starter was a little undersized, but plenty fast.

And David Rowe saw it again last week, when the Rutgers football team’s defense scored two touchdowns in 45 seconds.

“They all flew. They all swarmed,” Greene said of past Scarlet Knights defenses. “This definitely feels like it’s back to that level, back to where coach had his defense in past years.”

Head coach Greg Schiano spent the immediate aftermath of last year’s 4-8 season evaluating every aspect of his program, which suffered a setback in his 10th year.

He spent his December searching for a new offensive coordinator, then spent his spring and summer camps tinkering with defensive personnel.

Linebackers became linemen, safeties became linebackers, cornerbacks became safeties and the head coach became a defensive coordinator again.

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Greg Schiano spent two seasons as Miami’s defensive coordinator before taking over at Rutgers, where he is more involved this season with calling the defense.

After two seasons away from calling the defense, Schiano returned to that role this season and spends extra time with the secondary, where he made his coaching start.

“It’s a very big strain to do everything,” Schiano said. “But I love doing it.”

Schiano still works with the offense during practice, depending on the situation, but said he enjoys interacting in the meeting rooms most.

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The Rutgers women’s soccer team has a pair of non-conference games remaining, both against Ivy League foes this weekend at Yurcak Field. pg. 17