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The Rutgers football team unveiled all-black uniforms and black helmets for the first time in program history Saturday, when it beat Pitt, 34-10.

U. incorporates Google tools to boost interaction

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and off-campus issues, classroom issues, the quality of the environment they are in, dining and transportation, Kleiman said.

“We want to hear about what students think of RUSA, what are they happy with and what they expect of their student government,” he said. “Other issues include student thoughts on campus athletics, club sports, printing labs [and] study zones.”

Kleiman said his goal was at least 5,000 students, but he encourages every student to fill out the survey with 10 to 15 percent of the student body expected to respond.

Molly Magier, the College Avenue Class of 2014 representative for RUSA, said with the 3,000 to 5,000 students out of the

University officials fused Google features with myRutgers to create a program where students can live chat, video conference and manage school assignments on a platform called ScarletApps.

The idea for ScarletApps is to give students access to a hosted program with classic applications like email, a calendar and chat systems, said Don Smith, vice president of the Office of Information Technology. Students will be able to use features like Google Talk to communicate with classmates and professors.

“The collaboration app has become a necessity and Rutgers saw this was where technology was going,” he said. “We worked with faculty to integrate Google apps into the curriculum so there will be class groups for the collaboration feature.”

In addition to Google Talk, students would have access to Google Docs, which would enable them to share documents, spreadsheets and presentations in real-time with other people or even with all of the University community, he said.

For situations that call for video conferencing, students have Google Video to chat face-to-face with other students and faculty, Smith said.

“As of Oct. 4 there are [more than] 16,000 scarlet mail accounts in existence,” he said. “During the winter break of 2010, we surveyed students and figured out there was a reason to consider a change to a Gmail system.”

Smith’s of fice ran a beta test last fall in which 800 students were asked to examine various Google applications and voice their opinions about ScarletApps. By the conclusion of the test, 99 percent of students said they favored the fusion of applications, he said.

Smith said he does not see ScarletApps comparing to Sakai in terms of students managing their class work, but said it should be close because

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Some members of the Rutgers University Student Assembly executive board narrow down issues to address in their annual “What’s On Your Mind” student questionnaire yesterday in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

RUSA discusses student survey topics

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Transportation, dining hall services and classroom sizes are among the topics students can sound off about during the “What’s On Your Mind” student survey.

With the mentality of improving upon a survey conducted two years ago, Rutgers University Student Assembly met this weekend to finish the brainstorming session of the survey.

“It’s a comprehensive sur vey with topics that are most impor tant to Rutgers, with a sur vey done for the students by the students,” said Ross Kleiman, a RUSA School of Engineering representative.

Christine Honey, a School of Arts and Sciences senator and School of Arts and Sciences junior, said students should realize their results are not falling on deaf ears — rather they are being looked at and addressed.

“The goal is to put together a kitchen sink list of questions … then give it to [Vice President for Student Affairs Gregory S.] Blimling and the committee on Wednesday during a meeting,” said Kleiman, a School of Engineering senior.

RUSA plans to have it online by Oct. 19 and run from Oct. 19-26, and then review it, he said.

The first part is a background demographic of who is taking the survey, followed by questions addressing on-campus

CNN special hosts bullying victims, experts on campus

BY MARY DIDUCH EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Kyle, a student in the Anoka-Hennepin, Minn., School District, was urinated on in a school bathroom.

Damien, a straight student in the same district who has two gay parents and is on the gymnastics team, would often hear gay slurs when walking down the halls.

Dylan, who has been called a “he-she,” felt so harassed that he chose to be home-schooled.

“Kids made me feel like the grossest kid in the world,” Dylan said.

These were a few stories told during last night’s CNN special report on bullying, hosted by CNN reporter Anderson Cooper and filmed before an audience of University students, faculty and staff in the Livingston Student Center.

The “Anderson Cooper 360° Town Hall” conversation, “Bullying: It Stops Here,” was taped last week and included commentary on bullying from expert Rosalind Wiseman, Dr. Phil McGraw, talk-show host and mother of three Kelly Ripa and actress Jane Lynch, who is also raising a daughter.

It also featured clips from director Lee Hirsh’s eye-opening documentary on the subject, “The Bully Project,” which follows bullies, their victims, the affected families and the school’s response to the bullying claims — or lack thereof.

“It didn’t surprise me, and I think the scary part is that it didn’t surprise a lot of people,” Hirsh said of the prevalence of aggression in schools and inaction by administrators his documentary revealed.

CNN and sociologist Robert Faris of the University of California confirmed Hirsh’s claim in a study that interviewed 700 students from the Wheatley School on Long Island, N.Y., on aggression in their school.

The results showed that 65 percent were aggressors, victims or both. Meanwhile, 80 percent of incidents were never reported to adults, and no one intervened in incidents 77 percent of the time.

“We’ve uncovered some larger problems,” Faris said.

One major point the study revealed was that bullies — also called aggressors — are often also

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Scavenger hunt seeks to raise money for brain research

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Embarrassing themselves around campus paid off for Chi Upsilon Sigma and eight different student groups as they raised $250 through a scavenger hunt this weekend for The Four Foundation.

Par ticipants who entered the scavenger hunt donated $20 for the foundation, which advances brain tumor research across the nation, said Melissa Grajales, a Chi Upsilon Sigma member.

“It was our week of wisdom, where we host an event every day of the week. Two events we had this week were for The Four Foundation,” Grajales said, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior. “With the funds we raised from our other event we raised a total of almost $500 for the foundation.”

After a 23-hour time frame from Thursday to Friday night, the winning team of Gamma Sigma and Phi Sigma Pi racked the most points and received a gift card, said Suzy Gonzalez, Chi Upsilon Sigma president.

Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority won second place for most creative picture capturing their designated challenges, said Gonzalez, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior.

There were also some campus organizations that did not participate but still donated money for the cause, Grajales said.

Eight teams — consisting of three to five people — received a list of tasks to perform around campus and needed to take pictures of each one completed, said Ramathia DeFreese, Chi Upsilon Sigma public relations officer.

“We actually know the kids and get to see what our work is doing for them.”

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Participants were given assignments like dancing the Macarena outside Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus, disco dancing in front of the Allison Road Classroom Building on Busch campus or asking a bus driver to give a thumbs up, said DeFreese, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

“We really wanted to think outside the box and get some creative pictures,” she said.

Tasks were distributed according to a point system, and after brainstorming and planning ideas, Chi Upsilon Sigma wanted to ensure tasks were manageable, Grajales said.

“We went out together before we gave the lists out to see if all the tasks could actually be done,” she said.

Chi Upsilon Sigma members also wanted the scavenger hunt to be a learning opportunity for the participants.

“We made sure that it was all on campus to make things easier and it gave the participants a chance to learn more about our campus,” Grajales said. “We discovered lots of things that we had no idea about on campus.”

She said donating to The Four Foundation is important to the sorority, which takes time to visit the New York Presbyterian Hospital every winter break to visit kids with brain tumors.

“We make sure to go every year because it is important to know what the money you raise is actually going to,” she said.

“We actually know the kids and get to see what our work is doing for them.”

Gonzalez said she hopes the scavenger hunt can become an annual event to unite different organizations to collaborate with one another for a beneficial cause.

“We got really good feedback from the participants, they seemed to have a lot of fun so we’re definitely trying to make this an annual event,” she said.

“They left us many notes and comments on all the pictures they sent back to us.”

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Students plan their scavenger hunt routes last Thursday in front of the Center for Latino Arts and Culture on 122 College Ave.

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CAMPUS: McGraw thinks bullies, victims need social training continued from front victims. They also use aggressive bullying behavior as a means to climb the social ladder, a technique called “social combat,” he said.

Wheatley’s Principal Sean Feeney, who has worked in a number of school districts with different economic and cultural climates, said he was surprised by the results but knows it is an issue not confined to his school.

“Kids are kids are kids, and unfortunately these sorts of dynamics occur in all places,” he said, adding that this does not excuse this behavior.

The study also revealed the dynamic of the intervener role, or the person who jumps in to stop aggressive acts, in the bullying cycle. Faris said the key is to gain more interveners to change student’s behavior.

“If you are friends with someone who is an intervener, you are more likely to intervene the next time,” he said.

Cooper said research also shows that bullying often does not work in improving one’s social status.

“By and large it’s true … it’s not working. Even more surprising, [aggressive behavior] increases the anxiety and depression the bullies themselves experience,” Faris said.

He said other students are often not impressed by overly aggressive behavior, and there are other ways to excel.

Ultimately, the experts said

RUSA: Members aim to get at least 5,000 online responses continued from front undergraduate population in the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus, the margin of error is negotiable, and the 10 to 15 percent should be a good representation.

“You need at least 1,000 students,” she said. “Anything more than that, you are not decreasing the margin of error substantially.”

Kleiman said after he met with Blimling and the University statistician, he suggested not exceeding more than a week or two of surveying because voting drops off after the first day.

Since the survey is being sent out over email, it needs to be

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prevention comes down to teachers, administrators and parents.

McGraw and Wiseman said they would give legislators and administrators a low grade for lack of execution of tougher laws on bullying. Many do not have the resources to address the students’ concerns.

McGraw believes society should implement social skills training for both bullies and victims. “[We need to] make it as much a part of the students’ day as history and math and science,” he said.

In the Anoka-Hennepin school district, which is Minnesota’s largest and under federal investigation for a string of suicides because of anti-gay harassment, teachers are not allowed to discuss homosexuality. In response to CNN, the superintendent of the district said it is because of the community’s split view on homosexuality.

Kyle, Damien and Dylan said they try to talk about their issues with teachers, counselors and administrators, but they often leave with the problem unresolved.

“I think if people understood what we’re going through … and if they would just listen to us speak and just meet us before they jump to conclusions, maybe this wouldn’t happen,” Kyle said.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Eric Thor, who attended last week’s taping, said the show was done well, but was disappointed with the lack of discussion on bullying in the transgender community.

“They didn’t mention trans [people] ever,” Thor said.

Thor also hoped to see more focus on the University but thinks

the show will portray the University positively.

“I think it definitely puts us in a lot better light than last year,” Thor said. “Not equal, but close enough.”

CNN chose to host the program at the University after the almost one-year anniversary of the suicide of Tyler Clementi, who jumped off the George Washington Bridge when his roommate broadcast his encounter with a man on the Internet within his first month at college, Cooper said.

Maurice Elias, a University professor in the Department of Psychology, commented during the show.

“Rutgers has always valued the diversity of our student body, so what happened with Tyler was a tragedy and an incredible shock to us,” he said.

Since then, in addition to making more resources available for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the University started a new program called “Civic Engagement.” It gets students together to work for those less fortunate in the community, with the goal of heightening awareness.

Cooper said he hopes this program, sponsored also by Facebook and the Cartoon Network, will ensure that these stories are remembered and that solutions are found to end bullying.

“This is a problem for all of us that all of us have to solve together,” he said. “Let’s not let our kids down.”

Visit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention website at afsp.org, for more information about suicide prevention.

approved by the administrative committee, Kleiman said. The overall process takes three to five business days.

With administration reviewing the survey, there are concerns over the elimination of significant questions in the study.

RUSA President Matt Cordeiro said he was most concerned with the last two open-ended questions at the end of the survey — one addressing what qualities students would like in the next University president and the other concerning student opinions of the student government.

“If they want to strike-out questions like what they want to see in your next president, then I’ll be upset,” said Magier, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

Kleiman reassured the members of the RUSA executive board that he did not think that administration would add things in or alter the survey severely.

“They took out one question about cheating, but I think that is because you are asked to assess the behaviors of other students,” he said.

Kleiman said if students were asked if they knew at least one person who has cheated on an exam, students might focus on just that one person and the results would be useless.

“You would have 100 percent of students thinking 100 percent of the student body cheats,” he said. “It’s not helpful.”

In part with the survey, there is “What’s On Your Mind” Week, which features programs on Oct. 17

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School of Arts and Sciences junior Will Carey serves as the host of “Rutgers Night Live III,” which featured various student sketches and acts, Friday night in the Douglass Campus Center.

and Oct. 19 from 8 to 11 p.m. featuring focus groups with RUSA members about topics concerning students throughout the University.

Cordeiro, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, said he wants students to not only have their issues heard, but also addressed.

“We want to know what students want and say if you’re having an issue with this thing in WebReg, we want to submit it to the people who know how to fix it,” he said.

Jill Weiss, a College Avenue 2012 Representative and School of Arts and Sciences senior, said textbook issues should be brought up in the focus groups. “[We want to look into] whether they are interested in having online textbooks or online classes … and the problems with weekend exams,” she said.

TOOLS: Students show mixed opinions on ScarletApps continued from front there are a lot of other options available.

Steve Moon, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, said he likes the application as a Gmail user and finds the idea of using Google features and myRutgers together especially helpful for students dependent on their phones.

“I think it’s useful,” he said.

“You have access to your homework on your phone, which could come in handy if you’re away from your computer.”

Connie Yu, a University graduate student, said the program could be either a hit or a miss depending on how useful it is for students.

“I think it’s good because I don’t need to go to both [Gmail and myRutgers] necessarily,” said Yu, a Gmail user.

But Kristen Ferris, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, was not sold. She finds ScarletApps to be tedious and a bit over-the-top.

“I think it’s sor t of unnecessar y with ever ything like Sakai and social networks,” she said. “Besides, we already have tabs on the top of the myRutgers por tal.”

Ferris said she is afraid that the ScarletApps would overcomplicate the situation and make it difficult for students to navigate through all the dif ferent features, a sentiment that Yu seemed to share.

“The main question I have is how convenient is it? I mean, if it is easier [without it], I’ll just continue using both,” Yu said.

Ankita Panda contributed to this article.

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John Carlos, a 1968 Olympic Bronze track and field medalist, spoke about civil disobedience last Friday on Livingston campus.

Olympian tells personal stories of facing racism

BY YASHMIN PATEL STAFF WRITER

When John Carlos was young, he saw a white police officer hit an African-American man sleeping on the ground with his baton to wake him up.

“It put me into shock. [I wondered] why did that happen?

Why didn’t he do that a different way?” said the 1968 Olympic Bronze track and field medalist, who infamously raised his fist at the podium to salute the Black Power Movement.

Carlos knew something was wrong when his father first told him all people in the world are not treated equal.

“I star ted thinking something’s broken, something isn’t right,” he said to University students and faculty Friday in the Lucy Stone Hall auditorium on Livingston campus while sharing his experience growing up with racial inequalities.

Carlos realized to what extent people were treated differently when he watched a fire depar tment destroy an AfricanAmerican family’s home.

“Someone ran and called the fire depar tment because they saw smoke coming out a window,” he said. “So the fire depar tment comes … with their axes, and they’re throwing furniture out the window, they’re throwing clothes out the window.”

He was confused as to why the firemen were throwing things outside if there was no fire and nothing burning.

“It didn’t take me long to figure out what was going on. It made me understand right then at a ver y early age that if you’re not in the equation, nobody’s thinking about you,” he said.

As Carlos experienced discrimination growing up, he found himself fighting for equality through boycott demonstrations and protests.

“You can’t let people dictate to you and not use your brain, [but] you have to say I have a brain to

determine what’s right or wrong,” he said.

Carlos said a few of his teammates discussed boycotting the Olympic games while riding on a train. They decided to display Black Power banners on the side of the train to begin their boycott.

“As we were rolling and ever yone saw these banners, they star t shooting missiles and firebombs at the train,” he said. “And the train is smoking, the train’s on fire. I see ever yone was in a panic and saw a lot of people through the smoke jumping, bailing.”

The fire on the train burned Carlos, but he went on to participate in the Olympic games where he silently protested racial discrimination with his salute.

Steven Miller, a professor in the University’s Depar tment of Journalism and Media Studies, said Carlos’ actions largely af fected the countr y.

“The impact that this one act of civil disobedience had on the countr y and the world is immeasurable,” Miller said. “It not only brought recognition to the plights of African Americans, but also it showed that you can do things in a nonviolent constructive way.”

Kristen Ferris, a School of Ar ts and Sciences first-year student, said she found Carlos’ account of his life moving and finds it to be relevant today.

“Today you still see these things happening,” she said. “I feel like our society’s moving in a more positive direction, but there’s still evidence of what he was going through today, and you still see it.”

Miller said it is important for University students to understand the plight of AfricanAmericans during the Civil Rights Movement so history does not repeat itself.

“There are people who come before you who had laid the path out for you to be able to become the person you are and make the country the way it is,” he said. “[John] Carlos is one of those people.”

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Past activists react to ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — To veterans of past social movements, the “Occupy Wall Street” protests that began in New York and spread nationwide have been a welcome response to corporate greed and the enfeebled economy. But whether the energy of protesters can be tapped to transform the political climate remains to be seen.

“There’s a difference between an emotional outcry and a movement,” said Andrew Young, who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as a strategist during the civil rights movement and served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. “This is an emotional outcry. The difference is organization and articulation.”

The nearly four-week-old protest that began in a lower Manhattan park has taken on a semblance of organization and a coherent message has largely emerged: That “the 99 percent” who struggle daily as the economy shudders, employment stagnates and medical costs rise are suffering as the 1 percent who control the vast majority of the economy’s wealth continues to prosper.

Labor unions and students joined the protest on Wednesday, swelling the ranks for a day into the thousands, and lending the occupation a surge of political clout and legitimacy. President

Barack Obama said Thursday that the protesters were “giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works;” some Republicans have been seeking to cast “Occupy Wall Street” as class warfare.

The growing cohesiveness and profile of the protest have caught the attention of public intellectuals and veterans of past social movements.

“I think if the idea of the movement is to raise the discontent that a lot of people from different walks of life and different persuasions have on the economic inequity in this country — it’s been perfect,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who plans to broadcast his nationally syndicated radio show from the park on Monday and five days later lead a jobs march in Washington, D.C. He said he felt it was necessary to be there to talk about how blacks and Latinos are also buffeted by the economic difficulties.

“I think it is more a movement to show dissatisfaction. I think that is effective and useful,” he said.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson said the protest was a growing success. “There is a legitimacy to their demands for economic reconstruction,” he said, with the analysis of the problems in the economic system “dead on,” as he wrote in a commentary.

He said the protest could become a powerful movement if

“it remains disciplined, focused and nonviolent — and turns some of their pain into voting power.”

History is littered with social movements that failed to emerge as political forces to create lasting change — including mass labor protests to end unemployment and to call attention to job injustices, said Immanuel Ness, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the editor of the “Encyclopedia of American Social Movements.”

He compared it to the tea party movement, saying both were raising concerns about general anxieties over the economic system.

“The messaging is directed at working people,” he said. “Both the tea party and ‘Occupy Wall Street’ are arguing that something needs to change. The question is, What is the source of the problem?”

In the late 1990s, a global movement to reject corporatedriven globalization took to the streets, most famously in the United States by shutting down the 1999 meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. In spite of several actions aimed at summits by world institutions, the “movement of movements,” as it soon came to be known, faded away.

Much like the “Occupy Wall Street” protests, one of the main criticisms was that it lacked a cohesive message.

Todd Gitlin, an author and former president of the Students for a Democratic Society in the mid1960s, attended Wednesday’s rally and said the emerging movement was different.

The demands of the protesters were crystallizing around calls to tax the wealthy to address inequality, he said. “‘We are the 99 percent’ is a clear message,” he said. “It is unfair and in fact disgusting that the American political economy is run for the benefit of a plutocracy. I don’t see how that can be misunderstood.”

But he said the movement was still evolving and it remains to be seen whether it can evolve as an effective organization. “This is the new order of movements.

They’re informal and ragged, and yet if they’re well-timed, they touch a nerve and get translated by actually existing political forces,” he said.

U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-highest ranking Democrat in the House, is convinced the movement will bring about political change.

“I consider this movement really to be the most heartwarming thing I’ve seen since President Obama’s election,” he told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday. “I hope nobody gets discouraged. I think the impact could be very signifi-

cant on the psyche of the country as well as on the disposition of members of Congress.”

He disagrees that it lacks a coherent message and said many of the people he marched with during the civil rights era likely wouldn’t have been able to put into words their reasons or frustrations, either.

“They all knew something was wrong,” he said. “They knew that it just wasn’t right to have to get up out of your seat and give some white person your seat on a bus.

They may not be able to explain to you exactly why I’m out here marching; they may not even be able to relate that lunch counter to that city bus or to a ride on the train or to walking down the sidewalk having to step off the sidewalk when approached by a white person, which was the order of the day.”

Ambassador Young said that to be ef fective, the protests need a serious discussion component and that leadership needs to emerge.

“I can understand people being frustrated with Wall Street, but this just needs to be more than people voicing their frustrations and a few leaders having their 15 minutes of fame,” he said.

“It is important for those who have thought through their values and objections to somehow be heard.”

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Value citizens’ safety over budget cuts

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s the old adage goes, desperate times call for desperate measures. But that bit of folk wisdom does not justify every instance of desperate action. Take, for instance, the situation in Topeka, Kan. As is the case with every city in the United States right now, the economy is taking a severe toll on the city’s budget, prompting cuts all across the board. To make matters worse, the Shawnee County District Attorney’s office decided last month to stop prosecuting misdemeanors. This includes cases of domestic violence. Faced with a sudden influx of domestic violence cases at the city level, the Topeka City Council is considering decriminalizing domestic violence in order to save time, money and resources in these already cash-strapped times.

Frankly, the city council has its priorities way out of order in this instance. We understand they need to save money, but some things are far too important. Domestic violence is one of those things.

We’ve grown accustomed in contemporary times to thinking about everything in terms of dollars and cents. Some of the time, that’s okay — for example, when deciding what brand of potato chips you’re going to buy at the supermarket. When human lives and well-being are on the line, however, money should never be a part of the picture.

Decriminalizing domestic violence would place the victims of such violence in even worse positions than they are already in. When your own home is unsafe, and the court system and police forces that are supposed to protect you are turning blind eyes, whom do you look to for help?

The fact that the criminal status of domestic violence is even up for debate makes the Topeka City Council seem inept and uncaring. What kind of message are they trying to send to the women and children who are generally the victims of such maltreatment? That they don’t matter? That saving money is more important to them. This is a huge step backwards for women’s rights. As Becky Dickinson of the Young Women’s Christian Association pointed out, there’s a danger that decriminalizing domestic violence will only encourage more violence: “Letting abusive partners out of jail with no consequences puts victims in incredibly dangerous positions …

The abuser will often become more violent in an attempt to regain control.”

If the Topeka City Council decides that decriminalizing domestic violence is a good idea, there would be absolutely no way for them to justify that decision beyond their own ignorance of the facts. No amount of money saved could make the potentially disastrous consequences worth it.

Government needs employees to operate

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ne of the most important goals of Gov. Chris Christie’s time in office has been balancing New Jersey’s budget by any means necessary. But in taking such sometimes extreme austerity measures, Christie has had an interesting affect on the N.J. state government staff levels — the number of personnel across all the departments of the state government has been dwindling rapidly. At the end of 2010, there were 76,956 employees in the state government, which is 3,000 fewer employees than were working when Christie began his term in January of the same year. Three departments in particular have it especially bad right now: the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the Department of Education (DOE) and the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS). Champions of Christie point to the falling number of state employees as a sign of a smaller, smarter government. These people would do well to remember that, especially in departments as crucial as the aforementioned three, smaller does not always equal better.

In 2006, the DEP had 3,494 employees. By the end of 2010, that number had dropped significantly to 2,882. This is the lowest number of workers the DEP has had since 1986. The DOE is also at its lowest levels of employment since the 1980s, cut down to a meager 789 workers. In the span of one year, from 2009 to 2010, the DHSS lost 9 percent of its workforce, clocking in now at 1,691 employees. Obviously, some members of these departments are upset by the constant bleeding out of their workers, and we stand with them in that upset. These are three of the most important aspects of our lives that have been put under the knife. They need to be properly staffed in order to do their jobs correctly, and as things currently stand, they aren’t. Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, has called the diminishing numbers “a death by a 1,000 cuts.” He went on to say that “not only are these cuts bad for the environment, they are also bad for the economy.” Likewise, a state report on the DOE in 2007 stated that the department was poorly staffed, which affected greatly its ability to manage all of its duties — and that was four years ago. Paul Langevin, president of the New Jersey Association of Health Care Facilities, questioned how lawmakers expected health services to operate under these conditions, saying, “Every year we pass more regulations, more laws and now we have less workforce.”

Perhaps Christie’s administration should consider these facts before deciding to cut more. Curiously enough, the governor’s office is one of the few departments that has seen an increase in employees in recent years. We’d like to know why these other crucial departments are being passed over while Christie gets the help he wants.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “To see the swagger getting back is amazing.”

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n his famous farewell an official. This group is address, George hoping to essentially bypass Washington issued a the existing two-party strucwarning to the new country. ture. The name of the That warning was to avoid organization in question is LEE SELTZER the growth of political parAmericans Elect. ties, because they would Americans Elect is a nonprove to be dangerous to this country’s developpartisan organization that hopes to put a third major ment and betterment. Unfortunately, the people of candidate on the ballot. The candidate will not be the early nation did not heed his warning, and it chosen through a primary though. Instead, it will be became a prophecy, so to speak. In theory, the modchosen through an online polling process, which ern-day Republican and Democratic parties exist to allows any registered voter to sign up as a delegate. improve the nation. In practice though, they exist to The delegates are not bound by any specific political carry out their interests and benefit themselves. As platform. It does not matter if you are liberal or conevidenced by the recent debt default scare, both servative, pro-life or pro-choice, war hawk or pacifist parties care far more about their own agendas than — you just have to be an American. the well-being of our country.

Even more incredible, to participate in this At the same time, both sides thoroughly enjoy process, you do not need to sacrifice your party making the other party look bad. It has become identity. The process does not force you to register more about what you can prevent as any particular party, which the opposition from accomplishmeans that you can be a “We are living ing, rather than what your side can Democrat, Republican, accomplish. In theory, through Libertarian or whatever you so in a world where participating in the primaries, indichoose and still vote. You can douvidual party members should have ble your voting-power by voting in technology allows us a say in the party’s candidate’s both your primary and for the to do things that our stances. Unfortunately though, Americans Elect candidate. that is not always true. Because of Although Americans Elect forefathers never could the use of delegates in a manner does not have any political leanhave imagined.” similar to the electoral college, a ings, this does not mean it will party member’s voice in the pritake on anyone as a candidate. maries is very much indirect. At The candidates Americans Elect the same time, each state’s primary is held at a varyendorses have to break party lines. In fact, whoeving time. After the early primaries, losing candier is chosen as the candidate is required to choose dates often drop out. As a result, residents of states a running mate from the opposing party. If the canwith later primaries get less of a say than those livdidate is an independent, then they will be ing in states that have early primaries. required to choose a running mate that ideologiThe fact is, the political system is broken, and cally balances the ticket. Therefore, Americans it is about time that we, the American people, Elect’s only party preference is that there is no come together to fix it. The two major political party preference whatsoever. parties care far more about their own petty conWe are living in a world where technology allows cerns than those of the countr y. Moreover, the us to do things that our forefathers never could have primar y system is not nearly as efficient as it imagined. Music, books, television shows and could be. With the technology we have today, we movies can all be shared through the Internet, but have a chance to make government more reprewe choose our candidates and vote the same way sentative. The Internet brings ever yone togeththat we did 100 years ago. Starting with Americans er. It literally connects ever yone in the entire Elect, we can modernize our system to make it world. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if there were a way more efficient and more personalized. Using this to use this unfathomably power ful tool to tool, we can rise above worrying whether someone increase the average person’s involvement in the is Democrat or Republican, and instead worry about political process? whether they are honest and intelligent. If you Luckily, there is an organization that exists for would like to sign up as a delegate and help make such a purpose, and it is trying to transform the this a reality, visit americanselect.org. political process more profoundly than has been done since the Progressive Era. Right now, voters Lee Seltzer is a School of Arts and Sciences junior have to go through political parties in order to elect majoring in history and economics.

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See validity of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests Letter TIMOTHY DE VALROGER

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espite the fact that the “Occupy Wall Street” protest has been growing and finally getting the media attention it deserves, the author of last Tuesday’s column, “Protestors, please use logic,” seems to think that the protesters have nothing to say and are only a bunch of unwashed hippies who deserve the scorn that our establishment media has heaped upon them.

The message is clear, if the author took even five minutes to pay attention to the crux of the protests. People are finally upset enough to “seek

accountability for Wall Street and corporate America for the financial crisis and the growing economic inequality gap,” as The New York Times DealBook editor Andrew Ross Sorkin put it. This was obvious enough to The New York Times Wall Street ser vant or “repor ter,” Sorkin, who has been reporting on this ver y matter with the same smug and dismissive attitude as the author. Corporate America is rife with corruption, criminality and unrestrained political power. The financial elite has essentially co-opted the political process and has gotten richer while financial security has become more elusive for ever yone else. With 45 percent of the income going to

1 percent of the population, ordinar y Americans have started to get angr y.

The political process is broken and the Democrats are just

“The financial elite has essentially co-opted the political process and has gotten richer.” as much the party of Wall Street as the Republicans. They favored President Barack Obama in 2008, who has a Wall Street chief of staf f, a Wall Street ser vant of a treasur y

Daily review: laurels and darts

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espite the economic shambles in which our country is currently floundering, a lot of people still favor the “if you’re unemployed, go get a job” narrative. Of course, it isn’t that easy in reality, thanks to the fairly common practice of businesses refusing to consider applicants who have been out of work for extended periods of time. A survey by the National Employment Law Project discovered more than 150 job listings on employment websites excluding candidates who were not currently employed.

Fortunately for the unemployed, a provision in President Barack Obama’s jobs plan would make this sort of screening illegal for companies with 15 or more employees. It’s just another reason to laurel the American Jobs Act. That’s how you level the playing field.

Members of the hotly contested “Occupy Wall Street” protests have been calling for the type of economic reforms Obama has been speaking of recently — consider, for example, the “Buffet Rule.” Strangely enough, however, Obama has been cautious about throwing full support behind these protestors. Instead, he’s gone the more tepid route of explaining that he understands their concerns about Wall Street’s refusals to play by the rules without explicitly backing or denouncing the movement itself. We think it’s high time Obama take a stand, either for or against. For not doing so, we give Obama a dart. You cannot please everyone, and now certainly is not the time try.

secretar y and an administration packed with Goldman Sachs of ficials. The author, then, should be able to see why some people might be fed up and demand to be heard. As for their disorganized protests, who cares? Protests are by nature disorganized, organic and chaotic. Just because they don’t have a public-relations firm and PowerPoint presentations doesn’t mean their grievances are any less legitimate.

This protest isn’t about punishing workers who are employed by these companies.

It’s about the fact that these corporations are corrupt and have committed illegal acts while a weak administration let it happen, and the American people

got screwed, plain and simple.

The author’s comment on snapping pictures with iPhones was also amusing.

Apparently, according to him, it’s against the law to protest widespread illegal activity and the corporate hijacking of America’s political parties unless you use a landline phone and a 35mm camera. Instead of putting them down, applaud the people who are trying to draw attention to the corporate takeover of our political institutions, which is threatening to undo the financial success that millions of Americans have been enjoying for so long.

Timothy de Valroger is a Rutgers Business School graduate student majoring in business administration.

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Fifth-year senior fullback Joe Martinek took a third-quarter screen pass 60 yards for a touchdown.

SPREAD: Francis leads defensive pressure in backfield continued from back “I can tell you that whoever we had at quarterback, the way we protected him, he was not going to be successful,” Todd Graham said.

Senior defensive tackle Justin Francis made himself a regular in the Pitt backfield, recording two of Rutgers’ six sacks in addition to three quarterback hurries.

“I think as important as the sacks was that each time [Sunseri] threw the ball, he was hit,” Schiano said. “That has a cumulative ef fect on any quarterback.”

The Knights reduced one of the Big East’s most potent offenses to little more than tackling dummies. The Panthers routed South Florida, 44-17, a week ago on national television. They never had control at High Point Solutions Stadium.

Pitt moved the ball into Rutgers territor y on its first possession, but the defense held it to a field goal, and Pitt did not cross midfield again until the fourth quarter.

“Sometimes a defense has to bend and not break,” said senior fullback Joe Martinek. “Our defense does a great job at that and creating opportunities to get us the ball.”

When it did, the offense turned to freshman quarterback Gary Nova.

The Don Bosco Prep product made his first career star t against the school he once verbally committed to, but offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti asked little of him.

Nova had an unimpressive 4for-11 halftime stat line. Schiano considered giving sophomore Chas Dodd some playing time, but Nova erased those thoughts with a 7-for-13, two-touchdown showing in the second half.

“I’m not going to lie, I was a little too excited,” Nova said.

“Coming in [the locker room at halftime], coach Cignetti gave me a little talk to boost my confidence.”

It helped when Nova stepped into the huddle to call a screen in the third quarter, facing thirdand-9 and the impending blitz Pitt sent in those situations.

Nova dumped the pass to Martinek, who took it 60 yards for a touchdown.

This time Pitt did the chasing on defense — a marked change between past meetings with spread-offense opponents.

“We are not naïve. Our performance against spread teams hasn’t been great,” Schiano said.

“You look at our schedule and three of the teams in our league our spread teams. That’s one. We have two more.”

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Sophomore Michael Larrow suffered a season-ending ankle injury Saturday, said head coach Greg Schiano. Larrow went down on the first play from scrimmage and did not return. He recorded 10 tackles and 1.5 sacks this season as a starter.

NOTEBOOK: Offense experiments with starting line continued from back spring. Osei maintained the spot through four games, save for two series at right tackle due to injuries at North Carolina.

Ruch started sporadically for the Scarlet Knights the last three seasons, but primarily at guard while constantly serving as the backup center. He began working solely at center this offseason.

Senior Art Forst, another former starter, earned playing time at left guard with senior Desmond Wynn.

Sophomore Antwan Lower y split early reps with redshirt freshman Betim Bujari, but played the entire second half in the Knights’ (4-1, 2-0) 34-10 victory against Pittsburgh (3-3, 1-1).

Lowery and Bujari wrestled for playing time against Syracuse, but

Lowery eventually won out, earning the right guard reps during the fourth quarter and overtime.

“When that situation happened with me with the move, I’m a team player. I hung in, I fought and I practiced well,” Lowery said.

“They gave me the opportunity, and I just went out and played.

When Bujari was in there, I was helping him as much as I could.”

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end Michael Larrow suffered a season-ending ankle injur y Saturday on Pittsburgh’s first play from scrimmage.

He had surgery on the ankle yesterday, Schiano said, and the procedure was not complicated.

“It definitely affects Mike as a starter, but it affects our depth,” Schiano said. “I just have to figure out a way to keep melding guys, so when these things happen you have a guy who’s ready to go.”

Larrow started the first five games in 2011 after moving from

defensive tackle as a redshirt freshman. He registered 10 tackles and 1.5 sacks during the stretch and appeared in 22 games during his career.

Larrow joins senior cornerback Mason Robinson and freshman linebacker David Milewski on injured reser ve after both earned time on the Knights’ twodeep. Milewski reinjured his knee less than a week before Larrow’s setback.

Freshman safety Rashad Knight, who suf fered a foot injur y during training camp, is also a long way away from recover y.

“I don’t know if Rashad is ever going to be able to come back this year,” Schiano said.

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Pittsburgh deep in its own territor y for a majority of the game, partly from five punts inside the 20-yard line by junior Justin Doerner.

“He was a weapon [Saturday] in the punt game, no doubt about it,” Schiano said.

The Rutgers defense maintained the field position edge, forcing nine punts.

Junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu returned four for an 8.5-yard average, his most productive outing since taking over return duties.

“It was big,” said junior linebacker Khaseem Greene. “When you win the field position battle, you pretty much set yourself up to win the game — and win the game big.

A lot of people don’t understand how much field position plays a role in the outcome of a game.”

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all-black uniforms Saturday and wore black helmets for the first time in program history.

“To see the swagger getting back is amazing,” Lowery said.

“Guys looked good, felt good and played good. The uniforms were something we really enjoyed.”

When Rutgers assistant women’s cross country coach Jan Merrill-Morin looked at the pack of runWOMEN’S XC n e r s RUTGERS 52 PTS. e m e r g ing from SECOND PLACE the cluster of trees at Van Cortlandt Park Friday, she was ecstatic to see sophomore Brianna Deming leading the way.

“It definitely stood out for me when she came out of the woods and she was ahead,” Merrill-Morin said. “It was quite exciting, and she looked really good.”

Deming kept the lead through the finish line as she captured the women’s individual 5K title at the Metropolitan Championships. Her finishing time of 18:05 beat out second- and third-place finishers Noelle Van Rysselberghe and Anne Carey of Columbia.

Along with Deming’s individual victory, the Scarlet Knights placed seven runners in the top-35 competitors en route to a second-place team finish. Columbia took the 5K team title with St. Johns taking third.

It was the team’s first visit to Van Cortlandt Park since its fourthplace finish in September at the Fordham Fiasco and Follies.

Merrill-Morin saw the improvement from the last time the Knights visited the course.

“Everyone improved from when we went there for the Fordham Fiasco to this race,” Merrill-Morin said. “I was extremely pleased.”

Along with Deming, junior Anjelica Brinkofski was the other Knight to finish among the top-10 competitors. Her time of 18:39 was good enough for a sixth-place individual finish.

“I was very pleased with the performance,” Merrill-Morin said.

“We need to continue to be consistent and not make a lot of changes to what we are doing. We just need to keep doing what we have been doing.”

The men’s team also enjoyed success Friday as it continues to pull in consistent finishes by placing sixth out of 13 teams in the Metropolitan Championships. The finish was the third time this season in which the team placed in the top half of competing teams.

Columbia captured the team 8K title with a total of 22 points while placing an impressive six runners in the top 10.

Junior Julian Saad of Fordham crossed the finish line first with a finishing time of 25:15 in the individual event. Columbia’s Byron Jones and Daniel Everett finished second and third, respectively, with times of 25:19 and 25:32.

Rutgers placed two runners in the top 50 of finishers. Senior Ben Forrest led the way for the Knights, placing 30th with a time of 26:57, along with Chris Banafato with a 44th-place finish. Other runners placing for Rutgers included Chris Defabio, Brian Wells, Thomas Bragen, Curtis Richburg and Steven Burkholder.

Both teams have one more event before they participate in the Big East Championships. They look to continue their success when they travel to Waterford, Conn., to compete in the Connecticut College Invitational.

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Junior keeper capitalizes on first career starts

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

It took 55 games, more than two and a half seasons and countless minutes of game WOMEN’S SOCCER a c t i o n before NOTRE DAME 0 junior RUTGERS 0 goalkeeper J e s s Janosz earned her shot.

When it arrived Friday against DePaul and again yesterday against Notre Dame, the 6-foot netminder knew she was ready.

“I don’t even have the words for it,” Janosz said. “It was literally the best feeling ever, and I’ve waited for this for quite some time. It feels great to finally be able to play with my team.”

The Ringwood, N.J., native made her collegiate debut this weekend, when she made her first two career star ts and recorded 12 saves for head coach Glenn Crooks.

With Janosz standing tall in net, the Scarlet Knights (7-6-2, 24-2) posted consecutive clean sheets, giving the team four conference points after besting DePaul (3-11-1, 0-6-1), 1-0, and playing Notre Dame (7-5-3, 4-2-2) to a scoreless tie.

“Jess has been good in training,” Crooks said. “[Junior goalkeeper] Emmy [Simpkins] still has some discomfort in her finger, but what this tells us is that we have two ver y, ver y good goalkeepers and that’s great for our program.”

Whether the Knights could put a solid keeper in net against the likes of DePaul and the defending national champions was questionable after Simpkins went down earlier in the week with a dislocated finger.

Notre Dame especially put the pressure on Janosz in the first overtime, when the Irish registered five of their 21 shots.

Janosz made three critical saves early in the period to keep the Irish off the board, and by that point already shook the nerves she admitted feeling prior to the game.

There were opportunities for the Knights’ attack to break through, but a tough Irish backfield made it difficult for freshman forward Stefanie Scholz and junior forward Stefanee Pace.

The team’s best shot occurred when Pace sent a through ball into the box 19 seconds into the

“If I screw up, fine, then leave me alone.

But after three years of working, I just wanted one shot.”

JESS JANOSZ Junior Goalkeeper

second overtime, leading Scholz behind the defense and onto goal.

But Irish goalkeeper Maddie Fox met Scholz as the ball entered the box, pouncing on the pass and colliding with Scholz.

The Knights did not come close again for the remainder of the 10-minute period. The offense failed to push across a goal in consecutive games, but still escaped with a critical point with three matches remaining in the season.

With the tie and a 1-0 Villanova win against Cincinnati yesterday, Villanova and Rutgers are tied for the fifth and final playof f spot in the Big East National Division.

Although the Knights exited with points, Crooks was adamant in stating he was not satisfied with simply earning a tie.

“Rutgers plays for three points in every league game we play,” Crooks said. “I don’t care who we play. We respect everybody, we prepare for everybody and look, when we don’t win a league game, I’m disappointed.”

The Knights snapped their five-game winless streak in their first match of the weekend against DePaul, which continues to struggle in Big East play. A goal by Scholz in the 55th minute gave Rutgers a 1-0 edge it would not relinquish, and yielded a collective sigh of relief.

The goal was especially rewarding for Scholz, who came up empty on three scoring opportunities late in last week’s 2-1 overtime loss to Syracuse.

“Ever yone can finally breathe,” Scholz said. “We have a little bit of pressure knocked off of us, so everyone’s really excited and I’m proud of everyone.”

But no one was more relieved than Janosz for earning the first playing time of her career.

The junior keeper went into her first career start Friday with something to prove and achieved the desired effect in the team’s most crucial weekend of the season.

“I really wanted to prove that I was able to play, and I really just wanted one shot,” Janosz said. “If I screw up, fine, then leave me alone. But after three years of working, I just wanted one shot.

I’m really happy and thankful to my coaches that they finally gave me it.”

Judging by the way Janosz answered the call, another shot next weekend is not so farfetched.

Big East competition poses challenge

BY JOEY GREGORY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Rutgers men’s golf coach Chris Mazzuchetti and the team already braved the troubles of weather, MEN’S GOLF inexperie n c e RUTGERS AT CONNECTICUT INVITE, a n d lengthy TODAY, TOMORROW courses.

They add one more challenge to the list today: Big East competition.

Teeing of f at the Connecticut Invitational in Storrs, Conn., the Scarlet Knights are up against more teams from their conference than they saw in past tournaments.

Co-captain John Fagan sees it as the perfect opportunity to aim high.

“There should be a few more Big East teams so it should be pretty competitive,” Fagan said.

“We’re going to work hard and hopefully finish on top of the Big East teams out there.”

In order to take down teams in a ver y strong conference while navigating a tough course, the Knights cannot lean on one golfer.

They need to see a little bit more from everybody.

“If each guy can just knock off a couple strokes here and there, that makes a big difference on a team-wide basis,” Mazzuchetti said. “It’s not just

one guy we’re looking for to kind of jump out and lead that pack.

It’s definitely a team effort.”

Two members of the team, freshmen Jacob Stockl and Hyung Mo Kim, begin to settle into collegiate golf, Mazzuchetti said. The two continue to develop as players and reach a level at which the team needs them to play, he said.

The Knights can control their practice, their shots and

JOHN FAGAN how they approach each hole, but one thing they cannot control is the weather. It plagued them the past two tournaments and may prove to be a factor again.

“Unfor tunately, when the weather starts to change like it has been, from a little bit warmer to a little bit cooler, you get some fronts that come in,” Mazzuchetti said.

To prepare, the Knights worked on hitting lower shots that will slice through the wind rather than get caught in it, Fagan said.

They also have to adjust to the difference in course length from what they are used to.

“Our golf course here is a little bit on the shor ter side,” Mazzuchetti said. “We do some things by eliminating woods off the tee and things like that to get them to prepare for these longer courses that we play.”

But regardless of the level of competition, the weather and the course length, the Knights need to retain their tournament mentality.

“We just really have to focus more around the greens and stuf f like that,” Fagan said.

“You just have to grind it out.

Ever y shot counts.”

They also have to keep in mind that while ever y shot does count, one bad shot will not r uin the entire round, Fagan said.

With both the physical and mental aspects of golf in need of addressing, Mazzuchetti knows the most important part is getting out there.

“We have ourselves in a position where we’re getting more and more days and reps,” he said.

“We have young guys that are constantly developing and getting better every day and gelling more and more as a team.”

With their biggest taste of Big East action until the Big East Championships in April, the Knights need to translate practice to the course if they want to make a statement.

NOAH WHITTENBURG / ACTING ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Goalkeeper Jess Janosz, above, posted two shutouts and rookie Stefanie Scholz scored the game winner against DePaul.

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COVERING THE SPREAD Underdog Knights rout up-tempo Pittsburgh with stifling defense against once-troublesome offense

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

The fast-paced nature of Pittsburgh’s spread offense kept Greg Schiano from watching most of Saturday’s game. He called his defensive play, FOOTBALL t h e n turned his e y e s toward his play sheet and did it again.

In years’ past the head football coach likely wished he did not have to watch his once-proud defense chase Big East spread teams around the field and into the end zone. This time he missed a show that would make the most stubborn defensive coach proud.

“That was an old-fashioned Rutgers win,” Schiano said after his squad improved to 2-0 in the Big East for the first time since 2006 with a dominant 34-10 showing.

It was old-fashioned in the sense that Rutgers won, but new-school with a speedy, undersized defense that kept pace with the nation’s leading rusher.

Save for a 64-yard run and subsequent goal-line score, the Scarlet Knights kept Pitt tailback Ray Graham bottled up. They allowed one touchdown, but no matter.

They countered with one of their own.

Sophomore cornerback Logan Ryan followed up what Schiano called his best career game against Syracuse with one that certainly topped it. He intercepted two passes and returned the second 45 yards for a score that put the game out of reach.

“People said I looked kind of weird with the moves I was making,” said Ryan, who played quarterback at Eastern High School. “But once I got the ball in my hands, I was doing anything it took to score.”

It was one of four Rutgers interceptions on the day — three against Pitt starter Tino Sunseri and one against backup Trey Anderson, who played one series.

Pitt coach Todd Graham said he inserted Anderson to try to create some offensive rhythm, but there was nothing either quarterback could do against the pressure created by Rutgers’ defense.

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Sophomore cornerback Logan Ryan intercepted his first career pass in the first quarter Saturday against Pittsburgh, then intercepted another in the fourth quarter and returned it 45 yards for a touchdown that put the game out of reach.

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BIG EAST SCORES

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Louisville North Carolina

7 14

Connecticut No. 16 West Virginia

16 43

Syracuse Tulane

37 34

No. 17 Florida No. 1 Louisiana St.

11 41

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LEADERS PASSING GARY NOVA 11-24, 174 YDS, 2 TDS RUSHING RAY GRAHAM 24 CAR, 165 YDS, TD

RECEIVING JOE MARTINEK 2 REC, 63 YDS, 1 TD

PITTSBURGH RUTGERS

Total Yds 271 271

Pass 131 174

Rush 140 97

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Senior kicker San San Te converted a pair of field goals from longer than 40 yards. Te struggled between 40 and 50 yards last season, but hit a 44yard field goal and a 50-yard kick Saturday against Pittsburgh. He also connected from 47 yards out a week ago against Syracuse, although he missed three other attempts.

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano again played more than his five starters along the offensive line Saturday, but one of the moves might already be permanent.

Senior Caleb Ruch started at center in place of sophomore David Osei, who split time with sophomore Andre Civil at left tackle.

“He’s not going to forget how to be a center,” Schiano said of Osei.

“So if we need to, we can put him back there. I hope we don’t need to.

I hope that that competition raises both he and Andre’s level.”

Osei spent training camp as the team’s starting center after junior college transfer Dallas Hendrickson suffered a seasonending knee injur y during the

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