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Junior setter Stephanie Zielinski broke the Rutgers volleyball team’s all-time assists record last night in a 3-0 victory over Lehigh at the College Avenue Gym.

Donor gives $27 million for U. chairs

BY MARY DIDUCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Alice Ree, a School of Business sophomore, agreed but said the stop announcements are helpful at night and for firstyear students.

“It’s convenient to see your location at night and good for freshmen, but it’s excessive,” she said. “It’s hard to be on the phone on the bus because of the announcements.”

But the stop announcements are required for all buses under the Americans with Disabilities Act and will stay on the buses from now on, Molenaar said.

“The announcements are for blind people, and we always have to have them,” he said. “The scrolling announcements are helpful for a deaf person. All the up-to-date transit [vehicles] have them, just like subways in New York.”

The University recently received its largest donation in its 245-year history.

An anonymous donor gave $27 million to the “Our Rutgers, Our Future” $1 billion foundation campaign, which will be used solely for creating 18 endowed chairs.

“This is a transformative gift for Rutgers,” said Carol Herring, president of the Rutgers University Foundation, which this year has seen its biggest growth by raising $137.4 million so far.

The gift is a challenge gift. The anonymous donor will give $1.5 million of the required $3 million needed to establish a chair, and another donor must match it. The second donor will then have the ability to name the chair, which will last for years to come, Herring said.

Considered honors for professors, endowed chairs are used to recruit top faculty to the University while also maintaining current faculty members, said Richard Edwards, interim executive vice president for Academic Affairs, via email.

The University currently has 41 chairs, Herring said.

“Recruiting and retaining the best faculty ensure that the University remains competitive. These faculty members carry out cuttingedge research, attract the best graduate students to the University and are outstanding classroom instructors whose groundbreaking research brings the latest advances in their particular field to the students,” Edwards said.

The anonymous donor also specified that the new chairs be in the sciences, mathematics and business fields, but other fields may be up for consideration on an ad-hoc basis, Herring said.

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Since the University made the switch to First Transit buses in July, the University’s Department of Transportation Services have been working out certain problems like bunching, where multiple buses with the same routes arrive in one place at the same time.

Students express issues with new buses

BY AMY ROWE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

As the University’s Department of Transportation Services transitions into a relationship with bus service provider First Transit, students are noticing some changes.

The University switched from Academy Bus Company to First Transit early last semester and the buses have been r unning since July, said Jack Molenaar, director of the Department of Transportation Ser vices.

“We had a ver y small time for turn around, there are some bumps because of the transition and it being September, our busiest month,” he said.

Some students are upset with the punctuality of the buses, which they notice when waiting for a bus to take to class.

“NextBus seems a lot less accurate — the buses don’t come when the board says they are coming,” said Mike Harris, a School of Engineering sophomore.

“Something seems different.”

Amanda Lewis, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, agreed that the buses have been running late.

“They’re never on time and wait too long at some stops — a lot of people think so,” she said. “The buses are OK, but most of the time I don’t particularly like them.”

Other students are adjusting to the automated stop announcements, a feature added to the buses.

“The announcements are useful, but after the first week or so, it gets a little annoying having to hear that,” said Nikhil Guddeti, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior.

Anti-bullying law ups educators’ workloads

BY KEVIN OLLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With the start of another academic year, N.J. schools must now abide by one of the toughest anti-bullying laws in the nation, aimed to combat bullying in schools.

Gov. Chris Christie signed the “Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights” in Januar y, holding educators responsible for reporting bullying in and out of school.

During its time as a bill, the legislation gained publicity after the suicide of former University student Tyler Clementi, whose roommate recorded an intimate encounter between him and another man on a webcam.

While the law was recently enacted, some educators find it to be a bit overreaching

since it requires teachers and administrators to repor t all accounts of bullying to the state.

“I think the intentions of the law are worthy but the repor ting requirements are excessive,” said Andrew Bouf ford, a teacher at J.P. Stevens High School in Edison, N.J. The anti-bullying law was extremely popular when proposed, with only one legislator opposed, but is now receiving criticism for its extensive procedures.

Boufford said the law creates confusion for educators in deciding if something is bullying or not.

“The concern I have as a teacher is under the law it appears ever y little incident

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Dining halls across the University, like Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, served seafood last night at their annual “King Neptune Night.” Items on the menu included lobster, crab, bisque, flounder, salmon and shrimp.

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Council discusses influence on engineering community

BY AIMEI CHANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Members of the Engineering Governing Council took the time to introduce themselves and their responsibilities at their first meeting of the semester on Monday in the Busch Campus Center.

Par th Oza, council president, spoke about the council’s close af filiation with school of ficials when it comes to making decisions regarding engineering students, and briefed audience members about studies it car ried out in the past.

The council implemented a sur vey in which it asked engineering students how they felt toward academic issues such as class curriculum, bad professors and recitation classes, and other issues that af fect students’ ever yday lives, said Oza, a School of Engineering senior.

Based on the responses, the council decided which issues took precedence.

One such issue that the council members are looking into is exploring study abroad program options for engineering students.

“Engineering students typically have a very rigorous curriculum, and so studying abroad typically extends one’s graduation beyond four years,” Oza said.

Those present at the meeting also delved into issues regarding the University

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The executive board of the Engineering Governing Council introduces ongoing campaigns to students in the Busch Campus Center.

Members plan to enhance engineering student experience through study abroad programs, building repairs and special housing.

transpor tation system, dining ser vices, building identifications, grounds repairs and engineering housing.

“One of the biggest accomplishments of EGC is the successful implementation of the engineering first-year dorms on Busch,” said Ross Kleiman, EGC Class of 2012 representative. “I believe Barr and Mattia [Halls] are now purely engineering first-year dorms, and this is a direct result of work the EGC has done in the past.”

The council is working carefully to listen to engineering students’ concerns regarding engineering school curriculum conflicts, said Minru Hwang, EGC University Affairs Committee chair.

“We will make sure students’ voices are heard. … Not that we can fix [the problems] right away, but we can work as a representative of our constituency to act upon these issues,” said Hwang, a School of Engineering senior.

The meeting also featured guest speaker, Ilene Rosen,

assistant dean at the School of Engineering, who encouraged students to participate in the EGC as a good means to get their opinions heard.

“You have the oppor tunity to make an impact on other students’ life while we are here at School of Engineering,” Rosen said. “You have the oppor tunity to make a long lasting impact to [us].”

Audience members also had the opportunity to ask them questions regarding the council’s history and its role in the University.

Pete Spatocco, a School of Engineering first-year student, said he was excited to attend the first EGC meeting and looks forward to participate more actively in the future.

“I did council in high school, and I think it would be a great way to get involved and meet new people,” Spatocco said.

EGC will invite Rutgers Study Abroad, Academics and Career Ser vice next Monday evening when the election for class representatives takes place.

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SCHOOL ORDERS EVACUATION AFTER TEACHER RELEASES VAPOR A West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North teacher accidentally created an acidic vapor yesterday afternoon, resulting in the evacuation of the entire second floor of the building.

The vapor was released into the classroom when the teacher was cleaning up after a class, said police Lt. Joseph Duffy in an nj.com article.

The teacher, who created the vapor at 2:02 p.m., was alone in her lab at the time of the incident, according to the article. Although she followed the proper lab procedures for dispersing of chemicals, she did not wear goggles and ended up irritating her eyes.

“The release occurred under a protective hood in the classroom but the teacher was not wearing protective goggles,” he said in the article.

Specifically, the vapor occurred when the teacher mixed acidic solutions from a chemistry experiment under a fume hood.

To be safe, authorities called the county’s Hazmat team, police officers, firefighters, as well as emergency personnel.

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million from alumni, friends, corporations and foundations.

“We’re going at the pace we gives $13 million in the past want to, which is good,” Herring said. continued from front Gifts this year have been as The selection process for a small as $25 to as large as milprofessor to fill a chair is an acalions, and have come from 56,000 demic affair. Departments hold donors, she said. a national search and make a Since the University has recommendation to the unit’s seen its biggest donations this dean, who then brings it to the year, Herring and the camexecutive vice president for paign hope to continue the Academic Affairs for approval, upward trajector y. In its first Edwards said. year, the camThe Board of paign raised $66 Gover nors million, com“We’re trying makes the final pared to its $137 to raise money selection of million in its chairs, who can fifth year. for what hold their terms The foundation with the possiasked the really matters.” bility of reapUniversity comCAROL HERRING pointment for munity before the Rutgers University three to five campaign began Foundation President years, he said. where the funds Herring said should be distribits goal is to uted. It received appoint the new chairs within more than 470 proposals totaling one to two years. $6 billion.

“It’s a great opportunity, and “[What] is impor tant to the donor recognized how Rutgers is that we have more important chairs are to Rutgers,” private support to do the things she said. we want to do,” she said.

The second-largest gift in The funds so far have helped University histor y, which was construct buildings, fund coursto the tune of $13 million es and initiatives and endow three years ago, was from the chairs. Academic staff, not the same anonymous donor, foundation itself, decide their Herring said. distribution, Herring said.

Since the seven-year cam“We’re tr ying to raise paign’s commencement in 2006, money for what really matters,” the University raised $574.4 she said.

The Hazmat team said in the article that it decontaminated the teacher in the school parking lot and took her to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where she was later treated for minor injuries in the area of the eye.

No students were hurt, Plainsboro police said in the article. No explosions occurred at the school and students in the rest of the building were dismissed at normal time.

The Hazmat team and of ficials stayed on for several extra hours to ensure that no dangerous substances were left around and cleaned up after water used for flushing out the teacher’s eyes, police said in the ar ticle.

The chemicals mixed together that caused the vapor are not currently being disclosed to media.

LAW: Some administrators do not mind extra paperwork

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repor ted under the law, which was passed by state legislature and approved early this year by the governor.

continued from front that could be remotely interpreted as bullying would have to be repor ted, leading teachers to over react to trivial issues,” he said.

The law includes 18 pages of “required components” that state teachers and administrators must receive mandator y training on handling different types of bullying.

Administrators also say the law created more work for them.

“The new law has created a lot more paperwork for me to fill out,” said Jaymee Boehmer, assistant principal at South Brunswick High School. “But this law does give a kid who gets bullied all the time a chance to properly defend himself.”

Schools are now required to launch investigations when an incident of bullying is

BUSES: Thirty Academy drivers switch to new company continued from front Molenaar and the members of the Department of Transportation Ser vices are happy to have automated stop announcements on buses.

“We love the new stop announcements,” he said.

“They’re helpful for new riders and visitors. [Last year] the drivers were supposed to make announcements, but some weren’t very good at it.”

Some students have also noticed the buses seem less crowded because of the new interior and seating arrangement.

“The interior is better with the red seats and the buses fit more people,” Ree said.

Molenaar said the Academy buses had seating on the lowest level that did not run along the windows and sides, which took up space where people can now stand.

“First Transit owns the buses, and we requested that to allow for easier loading and unloading,” he said. “They wanted to know how to meet our wants.

“I have already been doing what this law states for past years.”

CHARLES ROSS Edison High School Principal

Boehmer believes the law will not have a big impact at South Brunswick High School, but it is too early to tell as the school year just star ted.

She said the teachers and administration have all taken an aggressive approach to thwar t bullying.

Charles Ross, principal of Edison High School, felt the

They purposely put red fabric on the seats.”

Jamie Mount, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy senior, said the bus drivers have been unfriendly while trying to keep the buses less crowded.

“We ask the provider to remove the driver if they aren’t behaving properly.”

JACK MOLENAAR Director of the Department of Transportation Services

“They’re being stricter about how many people they’re allowing on the buses,” she said. “A driver was trying to close the door on people to stop them from getting on. It’s rude to close the door while someone’s getting on when there’s more than enough room for everyone to fit.”

Of the 110 employees driving the buses, only 30 were Academy bus drivers who switched over to First Transit.

This leaves room for issues like

same as Boehmer about the law.

“While the law will provide me with more paper work, it creates a new and more formal procedure to handling situations dealing with bullying,” Ross said.

He said dealing with issues like bullying is nothing new for him as it is part of his job, whether it is a law or not.

“As a principal I have already been doing what this law states for past years, so this is nothing new for me and the teachers I work with,” he said.

Ross said bullying has been a problem as long as there have been schools and as an administrator, he feels Edison High School is ahead of the cur ve.

“I have taken a proactive approach to handling bullying over the years,” he said. “I tell my students that if they ever feel threatened or bullied, there are people always here to help them.”

getting lost or improper behavior, Molenaar said.

“Training issues always happen, and we ask the provider to remove the driver if they aren’t behaving properly,” he said.

“We’re working through the issues, but they had training all summer long.”

Molenaar also said the issue of bunching, where multiples of buses with the same routes arrive at the same time, is being dealt with.

“More people are driving around the first week of classes, so it creates excess traffic,” he said. “We had the rain to deal with last week, which is not fun for anyone. We have more buses than ever, and we’re working with the provider because we don’t like bunching either.”

Molenaar also said students who are unhappy with the buses can check out an environmentally friendly alternative with the department’s new Bike Rental Pilot Program at bikes.rutgers.edu.

“Buses are expensive. Bicycles make everything better,” he said.

“Imagine 10 more people off the bus — it’s a small percentage, but it could really change the dynamic of New Brunswick.”

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Cooper Dining Hall on Douglass campus will reopen its doors this semester to become a commissary to cook food and produce packaged meals for other campus eateries.

Former dining hall transforms to food packaging assembly

BY PAIGE TATULLI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University has given Cooper Dining Hall a second chance.

The former dining hall, which stands on Douglass campus and shut down in 2006, reopened its doors with an entirely different purpose.

“Cooper Dining Hall is once again being used, this time not as a dining hall, but rather a commissar y to produce packaged foods for places where we have simply run out of room,” said Joe Charette, interim director of Dining Services.

University-run food ser vice areas that are not dining halls, like Douglass Café, offer packaged food, such as salads or sandwiches, for meal swipes. The former dining hall now serves as

U. WINS FIFTH CONSECUTIVE PRIZE FOR RECYCLING For the fifth time in a row, the University took home the Gorilla Prize for overall recycling in RecycleMania 2011, a nationwide recycling competition between colleges and universities.

The 11th annual competition recovered 91 million pounds of organic and recyclable materials during a 10week period.

Of that, the University recycled more than 3 million pounds, surpassing the runner-up, third and fourth place schools — Stanford, Harvard and the University of California-San Diego — combined, said Dave DeHart, associate director of Environmental Services and Grounds, in a University Media Relations press release.

“Anything above 90 percent is considered zero waste. Our goal is to recycle 80 to 85 percent by 2015, and 90 percent by 2020,” he said in the release.

“Last year, we recycled 67 percent of solid waste.”

Dianne Gravatt, director of Environmental Services and Grounds, said the community would have to pitch in.

“We constantly look for innovative ways to reach faculty, staff and students, especially newcomers to Rutgers,” she said in the release. “We’d love to make recycling and a ‘Sustainable Rutgers’ a formal part of orientation to reach first-year and transfer students the first time they step on campus.”

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the home to the cooking and assembly of these alternative meals, he said.

“The option has grown to be so popular that we no longer have enough space within the Douglass Café kitchen to produce the quantity necessary to meet the student demand,” Charette said.

Dining Services ships some of the packaged meals to the Scarlet Latte café in the Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus in addition to the Douglass Café, he said.

The fiscal situation at the University for the 2006-2007 academic year caused the University to close Cooper Dining Hall, according to the Dining Services website.

Various initiatives to keep the dining hall in business, like

five-course meals or Intermezzo on Friday nights and weekend closure, failed to make any drastic change.

“I never went to Cooper when it was open, but I know it was really small, which is probably why they closed it,” said Lee DeSaw, a University Class of 2008 alumnus.

DeSaw said students never gave Cooper Dining Hall good food reviews and Intermezzo did little in its attempt to keep the venue open.

The dining hall, located near Jameson Hall, eventually lost out to Neilson Dining Hall in terms of size and location.

“Busch and Neilson dining halls always tied for the best food out of all the campuses,” she said.

It has been nearly six years since Cooper Dining Hall closed

its doors, and for the majority of new students, the building resembles nothing more than an abandoned structure.

“I’ve walked past that place before and to be honest, I didn’t even know it was a dining hall,” said Alexis Br uno, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior. “I thought it was just an old building.”

The building still serves other purposes, Charette said.

“We have consistently maintained the building since we closed it as a dining hall,” he said.

“We had summer groups and catering events in there for most of the summer.”

With the start of the school year, the Cooper Dining Hall kitchen is once again staffed with people in charge of preparing meals and sending them out

around campus to the units that sell them, he said.

“Cooper is using four people for one shift a day, in the kitchen only,” Charette said.

He said since this is the first full week that production has been underway, everyone is still getting used to the system.

Since the program is new, Charette said numbers regarding food production are not yet available.

“We are still developing our systems for production, shipping and record keeping,” he said.

Once the system has matured, he said there are plans to expand and bring packaged meals to multiple dining halls and student centers throughout the University.

“We plan on shipping some to other student centers in the very near future,” Charette said.

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Assemblyman gives out free backpacks Upendra Chivukula donates supplies to schools in New Brunswick, Franklin Park

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“Art After Hours” at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum is hosting an exhibition titled “Cast Me Not Away: Soviet Photography in the 1980s,” which will showcase 54 images from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection. The exhibition runs from May 14 to Nov. 15 and presents a visual record of life in the Soviet Union during the 1980s, drawing on universal themes of human existence. The museum’s doors will be open until 9 p.m. tonight — University students and staff get in free with I.D.

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The New Jersey State Theatre hosts two-time Grammy nominee guitarist Tony Emmanuel. Emmanuel’s collection includes 20 musical recordings featuring both acoustic and electric guitar. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and tickets range from $15 to $45 with group discounts available.

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The annual Raritan River Festival and Duck Race will take place today in Boyd Park from noon to 6 p.m., rain or shine.

Participants will be able to explore an Art Walk, Beer Garden or partake in Cardboard Canoe Races and a number of other environmental activities. Live music will be feature all day long, and admission is free. The event is hosted by New Brunswick Recreation and the Beez Foundation.

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Find out about your roots with the New Brunswick Public Library during “In a Nutshell” genealogy workshop. The workshop is from 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Carl T. Valenti Community Room and accompanies the traveling exhibit “In a Nutshell: The Worlds of Maurice Sendak.” “In a Nutshell” was organized by the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, and developed by Nextbook, Inc., a nonprofit organization. The program is a part of the National Tour funded by grants from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, the Righteous Persons Foundation, the David Berg Foundation and an anonymous donor, with additional support from “Tablet Magazine: A New Read on Jewish Life.”

For more information, contact Joye Crowe-Logan at 732-7455108 or joye@lmxac.org.

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The second City Council meeting of the month will be held today at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 78 Bayard St.

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Fluxus, an experimental multimedia art movement of the mid-20th century, is celebrating its 50th anniversary at Rutgers. The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum will be hosting an art exhibition in honor of Fluxus and its contribution to the University’s legacy as a center for experimental art. The exhibition begins today, and will run until April 1, 2012.

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Highland Park’s 7th annual “Arts in the Park” festival takes place today. The outdoor festival will run from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Raritan Avenue in Highland Park, and will showcase a variety of fine arts and crafts from across the greater Highland Park and New Brunswick area.

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New Jersey State Theater will be hosting a screening of “Idiots and Angels”, a fairy-tale comedy directed by Bill Plympton about a boozy business man who suddenly sprouts angel wings. The screening will be followed by an onstage conversation and question and answer session with Plympton. Tickets are $20 ($15 with a LoveRU promotion code), and doors open at 8 p.m.

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Keeping with tradition, Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula, D-17, organized a donation yesterday in which he distributed hundreds of backpacks stuffed with school supplies to students in New Brunswick’s Paul Robeson Community School and Franklin Park’s Pine Grove Manor School.

Chivukula, who started the event four years ago, visited five different towns in his legislative district, with New Brunswick in the morning and Franklin Park in the afternoon.

The assemblyman said he was motivated to start the event because of the recent economic downturns, which have rendered some people unable to purchase school supplies.

“When you look at the economic situation, there are children who needed backpacks, and someone suggested that we help them,” he said. “[I believe in] taking the backpacks directly where they are needed most — to the students — and making sure to get the school administrators and teachers involved with distribution.”

One of the first steps in starting the drive was contacting of fice supply companies and asking them if they were willing to donate supplies toward this purpose, Chivukula said.

“We reached out to the companies like Office Depot and contacted them saying we want to

make this really generous donation, and asked if they could contribute anything,” he said.

The Franklin Police Benevolent Association Local 154 donated the most supplies to the drive, with Enterprise Rent-a-Car coming in second, said R yan Lemanski, Chivukula’s director of Constituent Af fairs.

Detective Sgt. Darrin Russo, president of the Super visor y Of ficers’ Association, which manages the Franklin Police Benevolence Association (PBA), said the PBA was inspired to contribute in large par t because it agreed with Chivukula’s cause.

“Assemblyman Chivukula is a good suppor ter of the community and police and so anything we can do to help him out, we’re there for him,” Russo said.

Lemanski added that he was proud of how the charity drive has progressed since it first started.

“This year has raised the most backpacks with more than 350,” he said. “Just four years ago, the drive star ted out with only 100 backpacks.”

Chivukula and his staf f also donated backpacks and supplies to all corners of the community, including individuals in senior centers, churches, organizations and businesses, Lemanski said.

“Ultimately, this year 128 backpacks were donated to New Brunswick, 126 to Franklin, 60 to

North Brunswick, 40 to Piscataway and the remaining backpacks were donated to Milltown,” he said.

Kelly Mooring, principle of the Paul Robeson Community School on Commercial Avenue, expressed how much the students and parents appreciate the outpouring of suppor t.

“We’re really appreciative for the generous donation of the school bags and school supplies,” Mooring said.

Jeremiah Clif ford, principal of Woodrow Wilson Elementar y School in New Br unswick, agreed with Mooring and said his students really appreciated this drive and its impact on their lives.

“It helps our students understand what people give to us and we have to give to others,” he said.

The event closed with Jennifer Whitner, principal of Pine Grove Manor School, prompting her pupils to make use of their new supplies and to read to the fullest of their abilities, a cause that Chivukula strongly emphasized throughout the course of the evening.

“If we can motivate our children to work hard in school, then they most cer tainly can compete worldwide,” he said.

“We have to stress on education, just like this school stresses on reading and providing a good education as one of the most impor tant aspects of public interest.”

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Q:

Which dining hall do you think is best?

QUOTABLE

ENSEART SIMPSON SAS SENIOR “Neilson by far because the food is always great.

I’ve never had a complaint.”

“My favorite dining hall is Busch because there’s a lot of variety.

It’s really spacious, and the staff are always nice … especially the people who make the pasta.”

LILLY JIANG ERNEST MARIO SCHOOL OF PHARMACY FIRST-YEAR STUDENT “I like Livingston because I live there and it’s new.”

HENRY CHEN— GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION STUDENT CHARLES TONG

BY THE NUMBERS

SAS JUNIOR “Neilson because, well, there’s actually classes around it as opposed to Livingston where there’s really nothing there — at least for me as an SAS student.”

Sources: http://food.rutgers.edu

4.5 million

KELLY TEREZ

$70M

The number of cash facilities at the University

The cost of the University’s dining operations

BY CHASE BRUSH

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WHICH WAY DOES RU SWAY?

About the number of meals dining facilities serve annually

SAS SOPHOMORE “I’d say the best food right now is at Livingston — as we call ‘Super Tillet.’

But Neilson probably has the best location.”

MEGHAN FARRELL SAS JUNIOR “Livingston because it has a very cool set up, and the new burger machines are awesome.”

ONLINE RESPONSE I don’t eat at dining halls —13% Busch Dining Hall —31% Livingston Dining Commons —24%

Neilson Dining Hall —22%

Brower Commons —10%

Busch Dining Hall

31%

Livingston Dining Commons

24%

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22%

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13%

Brower Commons

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NATION

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Washington teachers strike for second day THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“I hope the district administration is taking less time on TACOMA, Wash.

— legal action and reflecting why Thousands of students in their teachers are so upset they Washington state’s third-largest would leave the students they school district will be spending love,” said Andy Coons, Tacoma a second day out of class as Education Association president.

Both the Washington attorschool of ficials seek a cour t order to force hundreds of ney general and state judges have r uled that state public striking teachers back to work.

A Superior Cour t hearing is employees do not have the scheduled Wednesday morn- right to strike.

Tacoma teachers have been ing on the Tacoma School District’s request for an injunc- working without a contract tion to order nearly 1,900 since school star ted Sept. 1. teachers back to work. The dis- The union and district negotitrict’s lawyers contend public ated Saturday but couldn’t employees cannot legally agree on a contract proposal.

A strike vote at the end of strike under state law. Tacoma Education Association August failed by about 28 spokesman Rich Wood says votes. Union bylaws require union lawyers will be ready approval by 80 percent of the nearly 1,900 members to with a response.

Teachers hit the picket lines authorize a strike.

A 2006 state attorney generTuesday after voting overwhelmingly Monday night to al’s opinion said state and local strike over issues that include public employees, including teacher pay, class size and the teachers, have no legally proway the district’s teachers are tected right to strike. That transfer red and reassigned. opinion also noted state law Tacoma teachers had been lacks specific penalties for working without a contract striking public employees.

During several past teacher since school star ted Sept. 1.

The strike is keeping strikes, Washington school districts have 28,000 students gone to cour t out of class. and judges The News “I hope the district have ordered Tribune newsadministration is ... teachers back paper repor ted to work. that the district reflecting why their T a c o m a asked a Pierce teachers are so upset t e a c h e r s C o u n t y earned an averSuperior Cour t they would leave age salar y of judge to order the teachers the students they love.” $63,793 during last school back to work.

ANDY COONS year, according A t t o r n e y Tacoma Education to the district.

S h a n n o n Association President They are the McMinimee best-paid teachsaid the district ers in Pierce wants the cour t County and about the fifth-highto declare the strike illegal.

A spokesman for the est paid among the state’s Washington Education largest districts, behind teachAssociation did not immediately ers in Everett, Nor thshore, return a call seeking comment Seattle and Bellevue, according to state data. about the injunction request.

The Legislature included in Union of ficials said striking teachers began ar riving at its state budget a 1.9 percent Lincoln High School at 6 a.m. cut in teacher pay but left it up Tuesday, and the plan was to to school districts to figure out have teachers at the city’s five how to save that money. Some major high schools demon- districts have made cuts elsewhere, some have cut teacher strating all day.

“It’s my 39th year of teach- pay, and others have worked ing. I’ve never struck before,” out compromises with their four th grade teacher Rober t local teachers union.

The News Tribune repor ts Brown, 60, said shortly after helping assemble signs at that on the issue of pay, the Wilson High School. “I’d rather district said Sunday it has be in school, I’d rather not have of fered teachers two options.

They could maintain the adversarial relationship. The principal at my school is just current pay schedule and sacwonder ful. My relationship rifice pay for one personal day, with him is great. It’s ver y neg- one individual optional training day and one schoolwide trainative from the central office.”

Brown said he voted to strike ing day. Or they could accept because of the district’s attempts an ef fective 1.35 percent cut in to move teachers around the dis- the salar y schedule. In trict despite seniority, saying, “in exchange, teachers would be the view of this 60-year-old, it’s allowed to schedule 2.5 furlough days. age discrimination.”

The district said it has also Eighty-seven percent of the Tacoma Education of fered to keep class size maxAssociation’s total member- imums at the current level. ship voted Monday evening to The union wants to decrease walk out, after weekend con- class sizes, but the district says tract negotiations failed to subtracting one child per class result in an agreement, WEA could cost the district about $1.8 million a year. spokesman Rich Wood said.

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A deposit of flammable gas may have played a role in last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The BP scientist who found the deposit failed to tell government investigators, which raises legal issues for the oil company.

Scientist finds unreported deposit BP researcher reveals previously undisclosed information in relation to oil spill THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A BP scientist identified a previously unreported deposit of flammable gas that could have played a role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but the oil giant failed to divulge the finding to government investigators for as long as a year, according to interviews and documents obtained

by The Associated Press.

While engineering experts differ on the extent to which the twofoot-wide swath of gas-bearing sands helped cause the disaster, the finding raises the specter of further legal and financial troubles for BP. It also could raise the stakes in the multibillion-dollar court battle between the companies involved.

A key federal report into what caused the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history is set to be released as early as Wednesday.

“This is a critical factor, where the hydrocarbons are found,” said Rice University engineering professor Satish Nagarajaiah. “I think further studies are needed to determine where this exactly was and what response was initiated by BP if they knew this fact.”

At issue: BP petrophysicist Galina Skripnikova in a closeddoor deposition two months ago told attorneys involved in the oil spill litigation that there appeared to be a zone of gas more than 300 feet above where BP told its contractors and regulators with the then-Minerals Management Service the shallowest zone was located.

The depth of the oil and gas is a critical parameter in drilling because it determines how much cement a company needs to pump to adequately seal a well.

Federal regulations require the top of the cement to be 500 feet above the shallowest zone holding hydrocarbons, meaning BP’s cement job was potentially well below where it should have been.

Cement contractor Halliburton recently filed a lawsuit against BP asserting that Skripnikova’s state-

ments prove the oil giant knew about the shallower gas before the explosion and should have sought a new cement and well design. BP has denied the allegations.

Skripnikova’s job involved analyzing data from BP’s Macondo well to determine the depth and characteristics of oil and gas deposits, which in turn is used in a process called temporar y abandonment, when wells are sealed so they can be used for production later.

Based on the initial information, regulators approved BP’s well sealing plan, which called for placing the top of the cement at roughly 17,300 feet below the sur face of the water. The cement was pumped April 19, the day before the explosion.

But Skripnikova said that after she flew back from the rig she and others re-examined the analysis, and on the day of the explosion she identified the shallower gas zone. That would have meant the cement should have been placed at just under 17,000 feet below the surface of the water.

She said she did not relay that information to drilling engineers on the Deepwater Horizon and warn them to hold off proceeding with the abandonment. She suggested in her deposition that she thought the information would be passed up the chain. BP was already $60 million over budget and stopping operations at that point and coming up with a new cement design would have meant millions of extra dollars in costs.

Later in the deposition, Skripnikova backtracked and said the new analysis was not discussed among her team until the day after the explosion.

“Do you believe that BP complied with MMS regulations with its selection of where the top of cement should go in the cement job that was done on April 19,” an attorney asked Skripnikova.

“I don’t know,” she responded.

Before her deposition, none of Skripnikova’s findings

appear to have been passed on to federal regulators or the numerous government investigations since the disaster.

Skripnikova was never questioned at public hearings before the presidentiallyappointed oil spill commission.

Nor was she questioned before the joint investigative panel of the U.S. Coast Guard and the agency that regulates of fshore drilling, which is readying its final repor t. Her name and the information she has is not in BP’s inter nal investigation repor t released last September.

BP spokesman Scott Dean insisted in a statement Tuesday to AP that when assessing topof-cement requirements before the accident, BP did not identify the zone in question as bearing oil or gas. Dean said “BP has provided material concerning this zone to the parties in the multidistrict litigation and to government investigators.”

BP provided a letter late Tuesday it said it sent the oil spill commission on Oct. 30, 2010, six months after the explosion. The letter said BP would be sending the commission draft reports the company prepared and more detailed studies to help inform its efforts to stop the flow of oil to the sea. The letter does not detail what the reports said, what data was provided, or whether the data was the same as what Skripnikova discussed in her deposition.

And, an investigator with the presidential oil spill commission, which released a report on the disaster months ago and disbanded in Januar y, told AP that BP did not specifically reveal the higher probable gas zone during the course of the panel’s investigation. The investigator, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said an independent petrophysicist reviewed the data available to the panel and did not express concern about gas being at a shallower depth.

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OPINIONS

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EDITORIALS

Student loan system damages borrowers T

hese are dark days for University students. Not only are our job prospects frighteningly low, even though we have put in all the work that society says is required of us, but the amounts of debt we accumulate just to attend college are becomingly increasingly difficult to shoulder. Worst of all, there does not seem to be any help on the way. Instead, as The Daily Targum reported yesterday, grants are dropping dramatically while loans are rising to take their place. Sure, this works as a short-term fix.

Students are receiving the money they need to pay for their term bills and continue their educations. However, in the long term, this system is positively disastrous, an almost surefire way to place a barrier between students and success in the “real world.”

What makes matters even worse is how silent the transition from grants to loans is. No one has been warning us about it. Many students find themselves losing grants without a word of warning, and they then have no choice but to accept the loans. Loans and grants should not be interchangeable like this. There is a crucial, almost life-altering difference between the two types of financial aid.

Perhaps loans should not even count as financial aid — in many ways, they are the exact opposite of aid.

It is clear that for the good of the future of our country as a whole, this system needs to be fixed immediately. For starters, lawmakers should look for ways to make student loans less unbearable. People should not have to worry about paying these loans back even if they are forced to declare bankruptcy. Private loans also should not live on in unfortunate cases where the borrower dies. These loans are basically inescapable as things stand now, and students are in dire need of protection.

There can be no future if the people who are tasked with leading that future — i.e., today’s students – cannot climb out from under the crushing weight of debt. It is bad enough that we’re facing a grim and foreboding economy these days. Must we face that economy with the added knowledge that we’re entering it with a severe handicap?

Privatizing TSA will solve nothing P

eople have had problems with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) since the group’s inception 10 years ago. Complaints have ranged from missed planes to child molestation, and it’s hard to find a single person who is actually supportive of the group. Now, even the group’s creator, Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), is entirely fed up with the TSA. Mica has even gone as far as to say, “I just don’t have a lot of faith at this point.” The solution, according to Mica, is to privatize the organization. It’s true that the TSA has a long list of urgent flaws that need addressing, but we fail to see how privatizing the agency will address any of these flaws.

As stated above, the TSA is a far from perfect agency. Aside from the complaints of molestation and violated rights — which are obviously in and of themselves serious issues — the TSA is also spending exorbitant amounts of money on the most absurd of things.

According to Human Events, a federal investigation into the TSA’s funding found that the agency was holding recruiting sessions at upscale hotels and resorts, spending “$2,000 for 20 gallons of Starbucks Coffee, $8,000 for elevator operators … and $1,500 to rent more than a dozen extension cords.” How a federal agency could justify such expenditures boggles the mind, so to speak.

However, one has to ask what privatization will do to address the situation. It is not as if private companies are vulnerable to the greed and corruption which sometimes befouls government operations. Was it not the greed and corruption of private banks which helped land the United States economy in a serious recession only a few short years ago? Sure, one may argue that if a privatized TSA wastes money, it won’t be federal money, but what about the other issues? There is just as much room for incompetence and dangerous conduct in the confines of a private business as there is in government institutions.

Despite the fact that some GOP members, such as Mica himself in this case, are prone to touting privatization as a panacea for most of society’s ills, this simply is not the case. It’s nothing more than empty, idealistic rhetoric. If Mica wants to see the TSA fixed, he should be taking directing steps to do so, not trying to pawn the agency off and wash his hands of it. Elected officials are supposed to be civil servants, which, believe it or not, requires actual work.

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Isolationism harms United States

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served the interests of variiven the failure of ous smugglers, terrorists, American involvedrug traffickers, and arms ment in Iraq, the dealers from around the seemingly unending conflict JOSE PAULINO world. Hezbollah has already in Afghanistan, the chaotic harmed the United States uprisings of the Arab Spring, through direct attacks against diplomats and continthe relative incompetence of the European militaries ues to do so by perpetuating the Latin American drug and the debt crisis pervading American politics and trade and corruption detrimental to the development society, it seems natural for Americans to push forof these South American countries. Hezbollah is eign policymakers to adopt a comforting isolationist known to cooperate with other transnational criminal stance on world affairs. Why worry about problems groups to smuggle drugs into the United States. abroad when there are problems at home?

Such partnerships may lead the way for the smugThe defense budget has been cut and will contingling in of a nuclear bomb. uously be reduced. Fifty-three House representatives Unhealthy conditions abroad can produce dishave proposed a controversial plan to cut U.S. contrieases that may spread to our land or to the lands of butions to the United Nations, potentially decreasing our trading partners. The drug trade, if not tamed, its influence on the world stage. President Barack will continue to pump toxic chemicals into our streets Obama’s approach to Libya has been described by an and fund the activities of our enemies. Terrorists and aide as “leading from behind” with more stealth and criminals will mesh in the pursuit of their goals. The modesty than military strength. Notably, foreign new dynamics of world security involvement is becoming more taboo make it clear that less involvement in as years pass without an end to our “Why worry about world affairs is the exact opposite of efforts in Iraq and as the world a sound course of action for the appears to erupt in financial and problems abroad United States. The United States security crises seemingly too unconwhen there are must establish lasting connections trollable to partake in.

The United States should not problems at home?” with the foreign countries and encourage these countries to form or approach foreign policy with passive strengthen regional alliances aimed timidity, but rather with clever — at combating international crime. less expensive, more effective — aggressiveness.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime The dynamics of international security are changing (UNODC) is an institution the United States must such that homeland security depends less on uniponourish so progress can continue in the analysis of lar military strength, but more on the control of the issue and implementation of programs that allemodern systems used by transnational criminals viate the causes of crime. One of the UNODC and strategic partnerships to counter illicit activities. endeavors involves what they refer to as Alternative To keep our country safe, less troops on foreign Development, or, “giving farmers an economically grounds can be justified, but less intelligence sharviable, legal alternative to growing coca bush, ing, resource sharing, investment in security infraopium poppy or cannabis plant.” structure abroad and at home and weakened partDesperate farmers may grow these and sell them nerships with foreign security organizations cannot. to cartels. When poverty leads to the development of The revolutionary changes influenced by globalcrops that can produce damaging products, the situaization affect commerce and ordinary life in every tion becomes even more complex, as what is cultivatcorner of the world. Transnational criminal and tering cocaine and heroine to us is nothing more than rorist organizations have capitalized on the new techmaking a living for the farmers. What effect would a nologies and capacities of our modern systems to reduction in United States dues to the UN have on the strengthen their capabilities. Increased international UNODC? In order to move on, Americans should rectrade, modern telecommunications, increased travel ognize two things. First, problems abroad do not stay and international banking are just some of the factors abroad but eventually make themselves apparent at at the disposal of 21st century criminal organizations. home. Second, that increased involvement in foreign Hezbollah, a political organization that arose in affairs does not necessarily mean sending troops to southern Lebanon as a resistance movement against other countries, but can also mean an increased comIsrael in 1982, is an example of an organization that mitment to partnerships that combat the greatest uses transnational crime to its benefit. The pursuit of threats to our security. When the above is recognized, funding has led Hezbollah to the tri-border area of more Americans will desire an increase rather than a Latin America acts as the location of some of decrease in involvement in world affairs.

Hezbollah’s most profitable schemes. This region, formed by the cities in Argentina, Brazil and Jose Paulino is a School of Arts and Sciences senior Paraguay, is known for lawlessness and the presence majoring in political science with a minor in philosophy. of terrorist elements. The region has traditionally

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Demand improvement from First Transit buses Letter SCOTT SINCOFF

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s many students have figured out already in the new academic year, the University has hired First Transit to replace Academy Bus Company as its transpor tation provider.

Students also have figured out that the buses are shiny and new with comfy scarlet seats, scrolling screens of the stops and loud announcements so students do not miss their stops after a long Friday night of partying.

However, students have realized that they need to travel from campus to campus to

attend their classes and need a reliable transportation authority to take them there.

Students have said that the buses are too crowded, there are not enough of them or that transportation doesn’t care about the student population on the New Brunswick campus.

Well, the buses are too crowded, not because of a record student population in the New Brunswick campus — thank you, University — but because the new buses are simply not evenly distributed between the campuses. For example, three different H buses were seen at the Hill Center bus stop on Busch campus within a time span of three minutes while students waiting for the H at the Student Activities

Center stop on the College Avenue campus at the same time were told that an H would not arrive for another 17 minutes.

The University Department of Transpor tation Ser vices (DOTS) does care. In fact, they even have a Facebook page, Twitter account and an email for students to tell them about the improvements that need to be made. First Transit even has an employee at some of the major bus stops to help students get on and off buses and to alleviate overcrowding.

However, it should not take the average 20-year-old student one hour to go from Cook/Douglass campus to Busch campus. The University gives students 55 minutes to

Daily review: laurels and darts

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ibertarianism, while not necessarily a dangerous political philosophy, can easily lead its more extreme adherents to draw dubious conclusions. For an example of this, one needs to look no further than Monday’s debate on CNN, during which Wolf Blitzer asked Rep. Ron Paul (RTexas), “What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn’t have health insurance? …

Are you saying society should just let him die?” Before Paul had a chance to respond, a few audience members loudly proclaimed that yes, this hypothetical person should be left to die. While Paul himself did not exactly say that when he responded to Blitzer, this incident is a chilling reminder that libertarianism can lead to terrible selfishness. We give the audience members who displayed such disrespect for their fellow human beings darts. The followers of any ideology — whether it be political, economic, religious, etc. — would do well to avoid extremism. *

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Even though contemporar y America likes to pride itself on what it sees as a commitment to diversity, politics are still largely the domain of old white men. President Barack Obama, himself an exception to this rule, is working to change that. According to a report by The Huffington Post, “more than 70 percent of Obama’s confirmed judicial nominees” have been people who did not fit the aforementioned archetype of the old white man. It’s great to see somebody bring real diversity to the political realm, especially when that somebody is a powerful person like the president. We give Obama a laurel for his efforts. He stands as a great example for the rest of us. His actions affirm the message that, in America, race and gender should never bar someone from success. While Obama is not single-handedly ending discrimination, this is at least a good start.

switch campuses for class, and students are still late to class and being reprimanded by professors. Students were sick and tired of the lack of REXL buses last year. Now, the students see all of the complaints from their peers on their relative Facebook pages and pounce on the oppor tunity to add their negative perspectives.

Well, Jack Molenaar, I invite you to look at the public pages of University students to see all of the choice words that students paying upwards of at least $20,000 each year have to say about the “new and improved” bus ser vice ser ving our community.

I urge all students to express their views on this

issue, not by cursing out your friends at College Hall on Cook/Douglass campus or by pushing to get on a bus at the ARC on Busch campus, but to tell the University how you feel.

The University bus system is a highlight of this community and it needs to improve.

Please contact DOTS at buses@aps.rutgers.edu or post a comment on the DOTS Facebook page. We as students have to fight this together.

Scott Sincoff is a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior majoring in journalism and media studies and environmental policy, institutions and behavior with a minor in professional youth work.

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DIVERSIONS

Horoscopes / LINDA C. BLACK

Pearls Before Swine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

STEPHAN PASTIS

Today's Birthday (09/14/11). This year is marked by both financial growth and change. Though it could be unsettling, the trend is positive. Look for new opportunities. Beauty and art especially call to you now, with an appreciation for the finer things in life. Share them with the ones you love. To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today Today is an 8 — Take it slow today is a 7 — There may be a tendento get things done quickly. Go cy to be too harsh on yourself ahead and hide out, if you want. now. Don't go down that tunnel.

Take time to manage finances, and Listen to a friend's good advice, reward yourself with relaxation. and get plenty of rest. Things will Taurus (April 20-May 20) — look different tomorrow.

Today is a 7 — Wait until later to Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — discuss an upcoming purchase. If Today is a 9 — Your career could you can't get what you need take a leap forward now, but close to home, look further away. don't race at the expense of your A loved one understands you health. Consider all the options, without words. and be responsible. Delegate for Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today a sustainable partnership. is a 7 — Lean on your friends, and Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — offer an arm when needed. There Today is a 6 — Finances may be may be less cash flowing around, tight now, but don't worry. but you've got your posse. You're Money can't buy you love. The not in it for the money, anyway. more love you give, the more you Remember your intention. receive. Keep in action to pay the Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today bills, but take time for hugs. is a 6 — Do it yourself to save Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — money ... every penny counts. The Today is a 7 — Home is where expensive way's not the best. Conthe heart is (especially now), so serve resources and energy, and stay close by to keep the blood relax with a good book later. pumping. Encourage criticism to Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is discover a project's weaknesses. a 6 — In today's obstacle course, Put in the correction. make sure to follow the rules and Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — avoid dangerous shortcuts (espeToday is an 8 — All of a sudden, cially where money's concerned). everything starts making sense.

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SHUTOUT: Zielinski posts 31 assists in Knights’ sixth win continued from back Notching 31 assists on her home court, Zielinski raised her career assists total to 2,288, and managed the Knights’ offense to a .253 hitting percentage, .67 better than the season average.

“Our setter put us in the right situations. She’s getting our hitters in the right situations, and tonight when the rhythm was off, they bettered the ball, which reduced our errors and increased our hitting percentage. It’s a simple formula,” Werneke said.

Contributing to that formula, Cucuz led the Knights (6-7) with 14 kills, landing a third of her attacks.

Cucuz became a go-to offensive target in junior Allie Jones’ absence.

Jones, who ranks second in the Big East in kills and points, missed the past five matches with a shoulder injury.

Smashing sets, Cucuz continues to improve and impress Werneke and her teammates.

“She did awesome,” Zielinski said of her freshman teammate.

“She’s really started to come out of her shell, and she is a great player. It sucks I won’t get to see her when she’s a senior.”

Winning their last home nonconference match, the Knights head to the Penn State Classic this weekend to take on the No. 5 Nittany Lions, as well as Florida Gulf Coast and Long Island.

The series of matches marks the Knights’ final competition before they attack the Big East season.

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Sophomore Brittany Bozzini recorded the final kill of last night’s match against Lehigh, giving the Scarlet Knights a 3-0 home victory.

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Freshman running back Savon Huggins scored twice in his collegiate debut against North Carolina Central, but did not gain any yards on seven carries in a loss last week against North Carolina. The high school All-American averages 1.9 yards per carry on 17 touches two games into his Rutgers career.

STRUGGLES: Sanu witnesses RB Huggins’ ability continued from back And after all, Schiano and the Knights coaching staff invested enough in Huggins to preserve a prominent role in the rotation for the 6-foot, 200-pounder.

Despite his inef fectiveness, Huggins insisted he is not frustrated.

“I’m patient. I’m humble. This is what I expected,” he said. “I don’t expect anything more than my place. I look up to the upperclassmen, work hard, and I see

what they have to do to follow off of them. They’re leaders to me, so I look up to them.”

There are not many upperclassmen in the Knights’ backfield. Williams’ previous two seasons featured mop-up duty against Football Championship Subdivision opponents and minimal action last year at Pittsburgh.

Deering lined up at wide receiver as a freshman and ran the Wildcat formation when junior Mohamed Sanu suffered through nagging injuries.

Sanu, who ran through holes along the offensive line as a freshman in the Wildcat, sees

what Huggins can do in the open field in practice.

“He is just a very humble and

SAVON HUGGINS smart kid, very gifted, able to see things I don’t see sometimes,” Sanu said of Huggins. “I’m just

impressed with the way he makes those sudden cuts.”

Although his on-field ability did not sustain itself through two games outside of practice, Huggins remains confident, he said.

His attitude stems from the running back corps.

“As a running back unit and a team, we build off each other and we trust each other,” Huggins said. “If one person’s not doing as well, they bring him up. The confidence is always high because we know what we can do, and we have the supporting cast — Jawan Jamison, Rocket [Williams], Jeremy. They all help me out. We all help each other out.”

But the communication between the offensive line and running backs beckons improvement.

The Knights’ ground game averaged only 0.04 yards on 25 carries, resulting in a net of one yard against the Tar Heels.

“We need to keep building chemistry,” Huggins said of the two units. “We didn’t really run the ball well last week, but that’s OK. We still were in the ball game.

Now we know what we have to do to be able to force the run.”

The time will come when Rutgers’ moving parts develop a sustainable rushing attack, Huggins said. If it does, Huggins will likely be the benefactor.

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Sophomore forward Gia Nappi leads the Scarlet Knights in goals and points, with three and seven, respectively, and is one of five players this season to tally an assist. The Fairfield, N.J., native started 19 games as a true freshman last year and ranked second on the team with 15 points and five goals.

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The Rutgers field hockey team faced a New Hampshire FIELD HOCKEY s q u a d Satur day that did not allow more than one goal to any opponent heading into the contest.

New Hampshire’s staunch play did not bode well for the 1-4 Scarlet Knights, who continue to struggle this year on the offensive end.

But the Knights got one on the board, and it came as no surprise who scored the goal.

The conversion stemmed from none other than the team’s goal and points leader, Gia Nappi, who found the back of the cage as time expired in the first half.

The sophomore for ward is one of the bright spots on a struggling Knights offense this

CAREER: Donigan wants more defense out of freshman continued from back he said. “We just want to help him develop his weaknesses and to make him a more complete player.”

The coach cited a number of tweaks Correa can make to his game that will take him to the next level.

First, his defense must develop, according to Donigan.

“I just think expanding his game would be best, not just becoming known for his attacking abilities but also a defensive presence, as well,” Donigan said. “We can’t af ford to go out there and play with 11 guys going for ward and only 10 guys playing defense because that would catch up with us eventually.”

season, scoring three goals and amassing seven points through five games.

No one on the Knights takes the team’s four-game losing streak lightly, but Nappi stepped up in trying to lead the team out of its rut.

“Competitiveness is a great thing to have in a person, and she has it times 10,” said head coach Liz Tchou.

Nappi was one of the main targets in the Knights offense ever since her freshman season last year for Tchou.

The West Essex High School product finished second on the team in goals with five, accumulating more than half of the Knights’ 30 goals with forward Nicole Gentile (11).

The Knights already look to Nappi to lead them out of their early losing streak in just her second season in Piscataway.

Now that Nappi is no longer a freshman, Tchou said she continues to acclimate to that leadership role.

“In a positive way, she can get herself back quickly and fight her

Still, Correa’s biggest deficiency also gives him his greatest talent. Soccer is a team sport, but Correa seems able to compete as an entire team by himself.

“He also needs to learn how to include other players in his

Correa’s talents call to mind for Donigan a player he coached years ago at St. Louis by the name of Vedad Ibiševi, who also once struggled with sharing the ball on offense. He now plays professionally for Hoffenheim in the German Bundesliga, as well as on the Bosnian National Team.

“I had a player in the past very similar to him, where we used to have training sessions where he was such a dominant attacking player, and I told him, ‘You have to use the players around you.

You can use these guys and you’ll get the ball back,’” Donigan said.

“That reminds me so much of JP, and it proves he can make it eventually.”

Correa and the Knights return to action Friday against Iona, and if the fast rising freshman can notch any more stats under his belt, he will be one step closer to achieving his dream of playing professional soccer.

JP CORREA attacking side of the ball,” Donigan said. “He has done a lot of things individually because he is so talented and so good at dribbling at people, but if he can start to use the players around him to help himself, I only think that’s going to make him better.”

“Competitiveness is a great thing to have in a person, and [Gia Nappi] has it times 10.”

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way through it,” Tchou said. “In a negative way, she lets her emotions get to her. She’s done a much better job this year than last year in channeling her competitiveness the right way.”

Nappi not only displays leadership through her work ethic, but she also leads the Knights offense as its main distributor.

The Fairfield, N.J., native is one of five players on the team with an assist this season, making Nappi a threat to either score or find a teammate open to shoot.

“First I look for a pass. If I can’t do that, I just try to eliminate the defender,” Nappi said.

“You have to look at it as everybody’s equal on the field.”

The Rutgers offense displayed a more balanced attack, rather than the concentration in scoring last season that it generated through Nappi and Gentile.

The balance enhances Nappi’s significance in finding teammates, as she regularly gets double-teamed. “[My teammates] are ver y important,” Nappi said. “If they’re not getting open and cutting into the right passing lanes, I won’t be

able to get them the ball.”

As the main distributor, Nappi stepped up in communicating what the rest of the team needs to do its job effectively.

“She communicates with everybody to make sure everyone’s doing a good job,” said sophomore Danielle Freshnock.

The Rutgers offense showed promise against New Hampshire by keeping it close against the Wildcats and getting five of its six shots on goal.

But the Knights know they need to score more than one goal on Friday if they want to beat No. 5 Syracuse.

“Basically, [we need] for all the forwards to connect and be open for one another, and we just need to finish,” Freshnock said.

If the Knights have any trouble putting that one point on the board, they will still feel confident giving the ball to Nappi.

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he Rutgers women’s soccer team received votes yesterday in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll.

After a pair of 1-0 weekend wins over Yale and Dartmouth, Rutgers earned three votes from the NSCAA. The Knights are 5-2, with both losses coming to top-10 teams. The squad tries to keep moving up the rankings when it opens its Big East schedule Friday against Villanova.

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the final rulings on sanctions against the university for NCAA violations involving more than 75 prospects and athletes across five sports.

The football team will offer nine less scholarships through the 2013-14 season, and for the next three spring training periods must hold fewer contact practices.

All of the penalties are in addition to the self-imposed sanctions that Boise State implemented earlier this year.

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MLB Commissioner Bud Selig when they revealed the league rejected their proposal to wear hats honoring the first responders to the events of 9/11.

Selig called the Mets on Sunday night, saying they threw his office “under the bus” and greatly embarrassed baseball executives.

MLB officials claim the reason the Mets could not wear the hats was due to uniformity, saying all of baseball had to honor the first responders in the same way.

TOM BRADY BECAME THE first quarterback since Boomer Esiason in 1996 to throw for more than 500 yards when he did so on Monday night in a 38-24 win over the Miami Dolphins.

Brady completed 32-of-48 passes for 517 yards, including a 99-yard touchdown pass to receiver Wes Welker.

Out-dueling fellow exMichigan Wolverine quarterback Chad Henne, Brady achieved the fifth-highest number of passing yards in NFL history.

The game shatters Brady’s previous career high of 410 yards.

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released from Broward County jail yesterday after facing charges of domestic batter y.

The former Major League Baseball star allegedly hit his wife, Juliana, with an open hand Monday night and was arrested after she called 911.

Ramirez’s wife reported the couple got into a heated argument, culminating with Ramirez striking her.

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Head coach Greg Schiano will have a more clear picture of the offensive line and running back positions after the bye week, but versatile sophomore Jeremy Deering, who has five carries and two receptions, is sure to be involved out of the backfield.

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Head coach Greg Schiano warned the assembled media Tuesday about not reading too much into the rotating changes on the Rutgers football team’s offensive line.

The bye week will see countless combinations of firstand second-team lines, Schiano said, before the first five are decided upon Sunday for gameweek practices.

But Schiano made one thing clear by simply making true freshman Kaleb Johnson available to the media after practice: The right tackle is closer to his debut.

“Right now I’m still learning, but I’m sure if I got in there I could hold my own,” said the 6foot-4, 298-pound Johnson.

Schiano praised Johnson’s physical maturity after he ar rived in Piscataway on June 1 from his home in Jacksonville, Fla. Johnson received regular second-team repetitions throughout training camp, and he was always among the potential-impact freshman Schiano named. But Johnson did not see the field in the season opener against Nor th Carolina Central, which typically gives a clear indication

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of who will redshir t and who dif ficult par t of his adjustment will play as freshmen. to college.

Schiano later said he The physical play comes easy. wished Johnson played at least “Ever since the first day a few snaps. when we did our first drill, I hit a When left tackle Andre Civil guy and thought, ‘Wow, this isn’t suffered cramps at North as hard as I thought,’” Johnson Carolina, Schiano shuffled his said. “It’s just a little bit faster.” entire offensive line, with senior Redshirt freshman Betim center Caleb Ruch as the first Bujari could also see increased lineman off the bench. action if he earns his repetitions A road game in Chapel Hill, in bye-week practices. Although N.C., against an Schiano continNFL-talent laden ues to contemdefensive line major “Ever since the first plate may not have changes on the day when we did been the ideal offensive line, he place for Johnson emphatic our first drill, I hit was to debut, but when he said it next week now a guy and thought, improved from seems likely. season.

‘Wow, this isn’t as last“No “I think if we doubt, went out and hard as I thought.’” not even close,” r ushed for 160 Schiano said.

KALEB JOHNSON [yards], we “[We’re] just probably wouldFreshman Right Tackle more stout, betn’t be looking at ter physically. anybody dif ferWe’re just not ent in the front five,” Schiano finishing things off.” said. “I don’t know if we’ve IN ADDITION TO CLEARING been settled here for two years on who the best five are. up the offensive line picture this We’ve been tr ying to find who week, Schiano has the same goal is ready to play the kind of for the running back position.

Junior De’Antwan Williams, physical football that we want sophomore Jeremy Deering, to play.” freshman Jawan Johnson, who played of fen- redshirt sive guard at Edward H. Jamison and true freshman White High School, called the Savon Huggins will split opportumental adjustment the most nities this week, before Schiano

has a more focused picture for Ohio preparation.

Deering is certain to receive his game touches, Schiano said, as he is a versatile back who can also motion out wide, but the remaining three fight for two spots.

“We’re going to give everybody opportunities, but then we’re going to lock it in Sunday night,” Schiano said. “You’re looking at the three others guys, and I think we have to narrow it down to two.”

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fullback Joe Martinek and senior safety Pat Kivlehan will both miss bye-week practices with unspecified injuries, and Kivlehan “may be a while,” Schiano said.

Martinek, in his first season at fullback, shows promise but needs to trust his instincts more, Schiano said.

“As I’m watching the tape, I’m thinking of the drills we’ll do to really get him to be a fullback,” Schiano said. “We’re not going to be able to make it happen this week.”

AS IS USUAL DURING A BYE week, Rutgers spent part of yesterday’s practice preparing against the triple-option, which it will face this season against Army and Navy.

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Junior setter breaks record in shutout

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Savon Huggins did not expect his status as the Rutgers football team’s prized 2011 recruit to translate into immediate on-field success.

FOOTBALL The freshman from St. Peter’s Prep knew he had to work his way into more playing time through practice, and progression would occur over time.

Through two games, Huggins and the Scarlet Knights still await that moment.

“It’s a great experience, some ups and downs,” Huggins said. “But this is all part of the game. I didn’t expect to go in here and [have] ever ything be great. I just have a humble attitude to go through the whole thing, and we’ll be fine.”

Huggins racked up only seven carries in the Knights’ 24-22 loss Saturday to North Carolina, and rushed for only a 3.2 yard-per-carr y average against Nor th Carolina Central.

The tie that binds him with junior De’Antwan Williams and redshir t freshman Jawan Jamison still exists, although head coach Greg Schiano expects some clarity at running back in the near future.

When Schiano sits down Sunday to prepare for Rutgers’ game week against Ohio, he plans to whittle the competition down to two backs, with the exception of sophomore Jeremy Deering.

“We’re going to give ever ybody oppor tunities,” Schiano said. “Jeremy is his own entity because Jeremy does so much with his … motion. We do a lot of things with him. So that’s going to be one of the challenges that we’ll have to look at.”

Huggins figures to be one of the running backs to survive Schiano’s downsizing.

He scored a pair of touchdowns against NC Central and was competent in pass blocking, something St. Peter’s Prep head coach Rich Hansen did not ask him to do in high school.

Jumping former Scarlet Knights Danaan Luca and Abbey Mar tin, junior setter Stephanie VOLLEYBALL Zielinski moved to LEHIGH 0 four th all time in as the RUTGERS 3 assists, Rutgers volleyball team blanked the Mountain Hawks of Lehigh, 3-0.

The Knights took the match in three sets, but it was a play early in the second set that highlighted the Knights’ second shutout of the season.

With the match tied at three, Zielinski placed a crafty set for sophomore Tif fany Regmund, who drove the pass to the floor. With her 14th assist of the night, the junior from For t Lauderdale, Fla., made the statistical leap, leading the Knights to victor y.

“It feels awesome,” Zielinski said. “It’s a really good goal for me to work toward, and I’m really excited about it.”

Lehigh put its best foot for ward in the third set, tying the match at 16, but freshman Sofi Cucuz delivered back-to-back kills to put the Knights back on top, 18-16.

Two consecutive Lehigh er rors gave Rutgers a comfor table four-point lead down the stretch, as the Knights finished the Mountain Hawks, 25-18, on a Brittany Bozzini kill.

Never trailing in the first two sets, the Knights cruised to their sixth win of the season.

Eliminating errors was a key stat for the Knights and made an impression on head coach CJ Werneke.

“Looking at the stats, we limited our errors, and that gave us another oppor tunity to live another day, play defense, contend for blocks and get better swings,” the four th-year coach said. “There is something to say about making the other team earn points, and that is what we did tonight.”

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Junior setter Stephanie Zielinski reached another milestone last night, recording her 2,288 career assist and moving to fourth all-time in Rutgers history.

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Impact rookie dreams of professional career

BY VINNIE MANCUSO CORRESPONDENT

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Freshman forward JP Correa started each of his four collegiate games, tallying two goals and two assists to lead the Scarlet Knights in each category.

The Rutgers men’s soccer team sports a freshman described as a being a one-of-akind talent, the type of MEN’S SOCCER player that does not come around often.

Make no mistake about it, JP Correa arrived on the Banks to help the Scarlet Knights turn their fortune around after a string of disappointing seasons.

But in the back of his head, Correa has a loftier goal. The for ward from Montville, N.J., also dreams of one day playing soccer professionally.

“Ever since I was little, I’ve been dreaming about being a professional,” Correa said. “Coming out of high school and being recruited just feels like one step closer. I just feel like I have to work a little harder to get there.”

Head coach Dan Donigan believes Correa picked the right atmosphere to achieve his goals.

“JP, he is a special player. He is not a kid that you get ever y year or even ever y

couple years,” Donigan said. “He is an incredibly talented player. He is a soccer junkie and he came to us because outside the whole school thing, he wants to become a professional, he wants to get to the next level. We feel confident that we are going to be able to do that for him, and obviously he chose us for that reason.”

Through the Knights’ first four games of the season, Correa certainly displayed the talents necessary to advance to the next level. The freshman contributed in each of those games in some way, notching two assists and a team-high two goals.

“In soccer, there is nothing really like scoring a goal,” Correa said. “To be leading the team in goals, it just feels great. It’s a good feeling.”

Correa is still very young and has a long road ahead of him if he wants to become a professional. But Donigan noted his youth is nothing to worry about.

“Ever y player in college and even in the professional ranks has some deficiencies,”

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