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Junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu set Big East and Rutgers records Saturday, when he caught 16 passes and two touchdowns in a 38-26 win against Ohio.
OIT works on wireless Internet flaws BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
Although RU Wireless_Secure has been available for about a year, the system is still undergoing changes. RU Wireless_Secure is a wireless system that utilizes a secure authentication mechanism known as 802.1X, which protects your user name, password and data with network encr yption, said Brian Luper, project manager of the Office of Information Technology. The staff installed a vendorsupplied update last Wednesday night that will hopefully resolve the connectivity issues for those
using the network, and will continue to update the network to a network that can accommodate more students. “We will be monitoring the system closely and working with the help desk to verify if it has been successful,” he said. Anna Barcy, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said she did not have a problem accessing RU Wireless but when attempting to access RU Wireless_Secure, faced issues with passwords. “I’ve been using the RU Wireless one, not the secure, because of the password protection problem that keeps wanting me to re-enter my password, but
otherwise I haven’t had a problem,” she said. RU Wireless — the system’s predecessor that users can still use — is an authenticated, secured, password-protected network that did not serve particular sites for a certain time, like instant messenger and Facebook, Luper said. “If you are going to an unsecure website outside of the University, it may not be compatible with RU Wireless_Secure,” he said. With RU Wireless_Secure, users avoid having the encryption eliminated, so they do not have to re-enter their passwords and reconfigure their system when they start
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University students and their families browse the Geological Hall on the College Avenue campus as part of “Parent and Family Weekend.”
Families taste campus life during weekend BY ALEKSI TZATZEV CORRESPONDENT
The Rutgers Parents Association concluded “Parent and Family Weekend” yesterday with its annual brunch outside the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum and an address from President Richard L. McCormick. Student Life, which organized most of the weekend for the first time, invited students’ parents and family members to visit University facilities and attend the Rutgers football team’s victory on Saturday over Ohio University. “We had [the program] kind of centered around a football weekend where families could go to the game with their children and experience
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the University,” said Andrew Campbell, director of Communication and Technology for the Rutgers Parents Association. With the help of the athletic department, about 3,000 tickets were provided at a discounted rate for parents and family members. Numbers remained around 1,900, during the last three years, while this year more than 2,000 family members attended the game, Campbell said. “We’ve grown a little bit each year,” he said. “Some events may not attract as many people, but football games have always been the biggest draw — no doubt about it.”
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Jared Schwartz, a Mason Gross School of the Arts senior, logs onto the RU Wirless_Secure network in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. Some students have trouble with the network.
University students earn recognition for five-minute film
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UNIVERSITY The University’s chapter of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars holds its induction ceremony.
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Hayley Gittleman, a graduate student, and Mike Puntolillo, a School of Engineering senior, dance on the steps of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus on Friday as part of a flash mob to attract new members to the Rutgers Swing Dancing Club.
With a camera and a week, University sophomore Zack Morrison and juniors David Umansky and Christopher Pasi went “Live” when their five-minute film placed in the top 16 for Campus MovieFest and won “Best Drama” overall. “The shooting of this movie was one of the most exhausting but exhilarating weeks of my life,” Pasi said. “We came up with the idea on the bus and three days later we were shooting the movie.” After winning “Best Drama” for their film “Live,” the trio was invited to the Hollywood International Film Festival for a screening of their short film and the opportunity to create a 3D short — one of the first of its kind, Morrison said. Morrison said one of the best parts of the festival was touring Universal Studios and meeting filmmakers from other colleges. “We met a group of kids from Colorado and the experiences we had with them were a blast,” he said. “It was a lot of fun just to meet students from different cultures with different movie
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