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Junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu set school and Big East single-season reception records Saturday, when the Rutgers football team beat Army, 27-12.

Bikers gear up with gifts for child patients

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“Living in America, it isn’t always possible to showcase our culture,” said Gijare, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “It kind of … lets us bring back a piece of home to America and showcase what our culture has to offer.”

Planning for this year’s event started in July, when they voted on Pratham as the beneficiary, she said.

“After we pick an area of focus, we pick the charity based on how close they are to New Jersey, if they are a nonprofit,” Shah said.

AIR held auditions for the show in September and spent the next few weeks deciding performance orders and themes, she said.

“Ever yone comes out and auditions, so we have auditions for a

Santa replaced his reindeer with motorcycles this season, as children waited outside Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Sunday afternoon for the hundreds of riders revving their engines.

Santa and Mrs. Claus led the bikers’ procession with a truck full of toys for the children in the hospital.

“The kids come down here and they’re just awestruck.

It’s such a heartwarming event to watch the interactions of the bikers and the children and their families,” said Barbara Romito, director of the Child Life Program at the BristolMyers Squibb Children’s Hospital.

Liberty Harley Davidson began the annual toy run 13 years ago with the intention of donating the toys to children in the hospital, said Jim Kruper, membership officer for Liberty Harley Owner’s Group chapter 3031.

“Some people say that bikers aren’t generous,” said Greg Toth, director of Liberty H.O.G. chapter 3031. “With 511plus riders on motorcycles and a truckload of toys, why don’t you tell me what you think?”

Liberty H.O.G. expects the largest amount of toy donations this year, Toth said.

“We tr y to increase the gifts that we give to the hospital ever y year,” he said.

Romito said she was surprised when the biker group proposed the idea in 1998 to partner with the Child Life Program at the hospital.

“I got a call from one of the women from the Harley Davidson group who said, ‘We have a crazy idea — what do you think?’” she said.

The Central Jersey Motorcycle Riders Group joined the cause in 2007, adding hundreds of donations, said Debbie Weavers, organizer of the CNJMRG. “A lot of the members of the group like to give back to the community,” Weavers said.

Almost ever y motorcycle rider contributed a gift for the toy run, Toth said.

“The toys are donated by the rider and the passenger on the motorcycle,” he said. “For the registration, we request that each person bring an unwrapped toy for

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Naach Without Limits, a dance group, combines different dance techniques in a fusion performance last night during the Association of Indians at Rutgers’ “Pehchaan: Dare to Define” event at the State Theatre.

AIR puts spotlight on Indian culture

BY ALEKSI TZATZEV ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Eighteen acts from all over the University, ranging from comedy to dance, performed for charity last night at the State Theatre during “Pehchaan: Dare to Define,” hosted by the Association of Indians at Rutgers.

The organization chose Pratham, a non-governmental charity founded by UNICEF, which provides education to children in the slums of Mumbai, India as their focus charity of the evening, said Dhara Shah, president of AIR. “Our purpose was to bring the entire Rutgers community together,” said Shah, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “Our goal tonight is that people are not only aware of this charity, but are also aware of this problem that we have in the world.”

The show included University groups such as the Delta Sigma Iota fraternity dance team and special guest Penn Masala, an a cappella group from the University of Pennsylvania.

Shah said this year all 18 performances were tied together to tell the story of a group of friends attending the University and finding themselves in the process of finding their niches in different groups on campus.

“It is about a group of friends who come to Rutgers who find … where they fit in, kind of like college life,” Shah said. “That is what is sort of unique this year — it’s all part of a story line.”

Rohit Gijare, the co-secretary of AIR and one of the performers, said the event allowed him to showcase a part of culture not present in the United States.

Volunteers tidy up community on ‘Day of Service’

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INDEX UNIVERSITY Sigma Chi raised more than $100,000 toward the Children’s Miracle Network.

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The University’s chapter of the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group lent a helping hand to the local community this Saturday as part of their “Day of Service.”

About 25 volunteers targeted four different service sites in the city and surrounding towns, including the Yellow Brick Road Preschool in Highland Park, the Franklin Township Food Bank and the George Street Co-op, a nonprofit natural foods store on Morris Street, said Maura Kisseberth, an NJPIRG campus organizer.

“Some people were cleaning, other groups were organizing clothes and helping with food donations — things that needed to be sorted,” Kisseberth said.

Eddie Velez, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore, was one of six volunteers to help out at the Reformed Church of Highland Park.

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Students dance the night away on Saturday at the third annual “Masquerade Ball” at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum on the College Avenue campus. Attendees took part in a night of prize raffles and waltz lessons, courtesy of the RU Ballroom Dance Club.

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High school students experience campus life

BY RINA MODY

a junior at Arthur P. Schalick High School in Pittsgrove, N.J. “It was made with water and oil The Minority Engineering and so it would only last three Educational Task offered 38 local days until the ingredients sepahigh school students a glimpse of rated, but it was still cool to be collegiate life this past weekend, able to make lotion.” with information sessions from mulDur va Bhandare, a New tiple organizations and classroom- Brunswick High School senior, simulated workshops during their said he created structures durthree-day visit at the University. ing the civil engineering work“We wanted to teach them shop, which was led by teachmore about engineering, but we ing assistants. also wanted to show them the dif“We had to make small ferent opportunities college has bridges out of balsa wood and to offer,” said Mark Acquaye, the see how much weight they MEET cultural awareness chair. would hold,” Bhandare said.

MEET is a professional and “Ours only held about four social society and chapter of the pounds, but it was still really National Society of Black interesting to design the bridge Engineers, said Keisha Mullings, and then put it together.”

MEET conference planning chair.

The high school students Acquaye and Hardik Dhaduk, were able to experience a social MEET high school outreach aspect to college Saturday night chair, chose the students based as the program featured performon an application process that ances by student groups on camincluded their grades, high pus, including the Rutgers school location, an essay and a University Multicultural Dance letter of recommendation, Organization and the West Indian Acquaye said.

S t u d e n t High school stuOrganization. dents had the Mirely Peralta, “We also wanted opportunity to intera senior at to show them act with campus life Science Park during their visit High School in the different with presentations Newark, attended opportunities from engineering an engineering organizations, as called college has to offer.” program well as representa“Upward Bound” tives from fraterniwith the New MARK ACQUAYE ties, sororities and Minority Engineering Educational Jersey Institute of Residence Life.

Technology, but Task Cultural Awareness Chair “We wanted to she said she convey to the stufound MEET’s dents that even as engineers they program more informative. can still be entrepreneurs, or resi“I got more out of three days dential advisers, or fraternity broth- here than I did out of three weeks ers,” said Acquaye, a School of there,” Peralta said.

Engineering junior. “We also wantMullings, who attended the ed them to know about all the dif- program when she was a high ferent fields [at the] University.” school student, said there are stuThe high school students dent outreach programs for high also attended a series of stu- students every semester. dent-led, undergraduate classes “Most of the programs are exposing them to the different the same as when I was here as fields of engineering. a high school student, but since “This program really opened engineering is a field that my eyes,” said Daniela Velez, a always changing, the worksenior at the Burlington County shops change as well,” said Institute of Technology in Mullings, a School of Westampton, N.J. “I didn’t Engineering sophomore. know that there were so many Kartik Chopra, a New different fields of specialization Brunswick High School senior, in engineering.” said he thought MEET effectively During the biomedical engi- conveyed the different types of neering workshop, the students opportunities available as an engiwere challenged to brainstorm an neer and at the University. idea for a drug that could “The program was extremely improve the lives of others. well-run. It was organized, creIn the chemical engineer ative and informative,” Chopra workshop, students took part in said. “On top of that, the MEET practical activities. members really made sure that “We got to actually make we were both learning and havlotion,” said Kimberly Holmes, ing a good time.”

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Members of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority perform their dance routine Saturday during the last day of the “Derby Days” competition at the Livingston Recreation Center.

‘Derby Days’ surpasses $100K goal

BY MATTHEW MATILSKY STAFF WRITER

After a week of competition and fundraising, Sigma Chi fraternity beat their previous record by earning a total of $167,000 at the end of the “Derby Days” competition.

“We blew last year’s record out of the water,” said Sagar Shah, “Derby Days” chairman at Sigma Chi. Sigma Chi raised $95,000 last year, Shah said. At the start of the event, he said the fraternity hoped to break $100,000.

Sororities Phi Sigma Sigma and Sigma Delta Tau were crowned the overall winners of the event, which consisted of a variety of contests that began last Sunday and ran until Saturday, said Shah, a Rutgers Business School senior.

Of all the participating sororities, they raised the most funds.

Gamma Phi Beta won the lipsyncing contest that closed off the week, he said.

Sigma Chi donates the money they raise to Children’s Miracle Network, an organization that provides funding for children’s hospitals, as well as organizations the participating sororities support, said Courtney Kugel, a member of Sigma Delta Tau. The University’s seven National Panhellenic Conference sororities competed against each other throughout several events, such as a penny-collecting contest known as “penny wars” and the lip-synching contest, said Sam Murray, a member of Phi Sigma Sigma.

“Everyone practices fanatically for months and months,” said Murray, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Each sorority elected their own “diva” and paired them with a “captain” from Sigma Chi, Murray said. The pairs were then given the task of choreographing their respective dance team of about 40 individuals.

“In the beginning of the semester we do something called the ‘derby draft,’” Shah said. “We have a roster of all the brothers and each diva picks a captain. It’s like fantasy football.”

The dance teams, composed of members from Sigma Chi and their respective sorority, often practiced rigorously for the events, said Bianca Fazzina, member and diva of Phi Sigma Sigma.

“At Phi Sigma Sigma, we practiced four nights a week for two or three hours,” said Fazzina, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “It’s a lot of hard work.”

The dance routines paired classic movies with contemporary music selections, said Kugel, a diva for Sigma Delta Tau. “We did ‘Wizard of Oz,’” said Kugel, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “We picked songs like ‘Heartless’ for the Tin Man and ‘Ease on Down the Road,’ for the Yellow Brick Road.”

Other themes included “Toy Land,” “Men In Black” and “Toy Story,” she said.

Kugel said it was difficult to practice with her team throughout the semester.

“It’s tough because often you don’t have a big space,” she said.

“But I can honestly say that all the sororities stepped up their game last night.”

In addition to the amount of money raised, Shah said his favorite part of the lip-syncing contest was meeting one person who will benefit from their fundraising.

“We had a girl from the Children’s Miracle Network come in — one of the girls who is actually a beneficiary of all the money we raised,” he said.

Shah said his involvement was mainly behind the scenes and included responsibilities like hiring a sound crew and staging for the lip-syncing contest, as well as motivating the various organizations to raise as much money as possible.

A panel of judges reviewed two per formances from each team, a duet from each diva and captain followed by each team’s performance.

“It was insane the amount of people that came out,” Fazzina said. “It was such a great atmosphere to be in.”

School of Arts and Sciences senior Mark Belenky said the amount of preparation that went into the contest was impressive.

“All seven sororities were incredible,” he said. “The coolest thing about it was that the other sororities were cheering for each other during their lip syncing performances. The spirit was off the hook.”

DOUGLASS PROJECT CELEBRATES 25 YEARS OF SUPPORTING WOMEN To celebrate its 25th anniversar y, the Douglass Project invited science writer Margaret Wertheim to speak today at Trayes Hall on Douglass campus.

The Douglass Project is an award-winning program established in 1986 to support women interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, according to the Douglass Project website.

“The project is incredibly valuable in empowering women in fields that do not traditionally welcome them,” said alumna Shari Horowitz in a Rutgers FOCUS article.

Since its inception, the project worked to challenge the stereotype of women’s place in the workforce while offering mentoring, tutoring and advising ser vices to students, according to the article.

“Ever ything we’re doing is working toward creating an environment that’s positive, that reinforces the students’ identity,” said Elaine Zundl, acting director of the project and assistant dean of Douglass Residential College, in the article.

The Douglass Project won the National Science Foundation’s 1999 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, and the 1990 Progress and Equity Award from the American Association of University Women.

“We were really in the forefront of tr ying to provide support for women in science,” said Ellen Mappen, the Douglass Project’s first director, in the article.

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PROTESTERS TO OCCUPY NEW BRUNSWICK THROUGHOUT WEEK Looking to bring the Occupy Wall Street movement closer to home, some residents plan to protest ever y day this week, focusing particularly on financial problems and how they tie in with local issues.

Occupy New Brunswick protestors will stand on the intersection of Albany Street and George Street each day from 4 to 7 p.m., mainly because of its close proximity to many of the city’s banks.

“What we’re really looking for is accountability,” said Jeannette Gabriel, an Occupy New Brunswick organizer. “We’re looking for accountability from the financial sector for the fact that they’ve taken so much of the wealth of this society and the rest of us have been left with so little.”

Their efforts are set to begin today with the theme “We Are the 99 Percent.” The protestors aim to establish a presence in front of the banks.

Gabriel believes the banks have had a negative impact on society through government bailout and control over loans.

Protestors will center on the topic of home foreclosures on Tuesday, shedding light on the struggles people may face when their houses are repossessed, Gabriel said. They plan to tie in the

issue with the topic of community development in New Brunswick.

“There’s been so much emphasis on corporate development, and so little emphasis on actual community development,” she said.

“Worker Day,” on Wednesday, will address attacks on public sector workers, who Gabriel said face similar problems as private sector workers in terms of acquiring health insurance and unemployment rates.

To localize the issue of labor, protestors plan to also talk about immigrant workers.

“There’s a pretty big immigrant worker population here in New Brunswick, and usually in economic downturns people turn on immigrant workers,” she said. “We’re tr ying to have a united perspective that all workers are under attack.”

Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled to visit the city on Thursday, where occupiers will also touch on the local issue of police brutality.

Gabriel said a lot of activism has occurred in New Brunswick since the Sept. 22 death of Barry Deloatch, who was fatally shot after an altercation with New Brunswick police officers.

“We absolutely are connecting that with some of the police brutality against the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators around the countr y,” she said.

“We’re trying to bring those two themes together.”

Rather than a general assembly meeting, which they plan to hold after each day’s protest, demonstrators will then move to the Sharon Baptist Church on Howard Street where Sharpton is scheduled to speak.

Occupy New Brunswick protests are set to wrap up the week on Friday, addressing problems with student debt.

“Young people are the future of the society,” Gabriel said. “We should be helping young people and not be helping the bank.”

Demonstrators were also invited to bring their children along to keep in theme with the day.

Gabriel said many residents have been traveling to New York because they want to be part of the greater Occupy Wall Street movement.

“This is an opportunity to do it right here and focus on the problems we have in New Brunswick,” she said.

— Kristine Rosette Enerio

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RU Newark Ehsaas, Ehsaas Dance Team from Rutgers-Newark, uses mixed dance techniques last night to showcase Indian culture during the Association of Indians at Rutgers event at the State Theatre.

AIR: Cultural group begins plans for event in September continued from front week,” Shah said. “Groups only have to perform one minute of their piece.”

Cultural integration and quality of per formance were factors in choosing this year’s acts, she said.

Akash Patel, the cultural chair of AIR, said he would come back to the organization next year.

COMMUNITY: NJPIRG aims to break poverty stigmas continued from front “Me and the other volunteers helped clean the church’s lower level and thrift shop and finished around noon,” he said. “Whatever they needed us to do, we would go over and help them out.”

The “Day of Service” marked the start of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week and a series of events scheduled to run throughout this week, Kisseberth said.

NJPIRG is set to team up with the Rutgers Student Bakers on Wednesday for a large-scale bake sale where all proceeds will be donated to an organization that works to alleviate child hunger in the United States, she said.

They planned to end the week on Friday with a benefit concert in the Loree Building on Cook/Douglass campus that also plans to donate its earnings to charity.

“It’s just a great experience,” said Patel, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Organizing it and being part of the group which puts all this together is an honor.”

AIR placed donation boxes outside the theater as a way of collecting funds for the charity, Shah said. After paying for fees and expenses, the remaining funds will go toward Pratham.

AIR votes on different charities each year with the intention of var ying causes, Shah said.

They promoted WaterAid last

November, an organization that targets the lack of water in impoverished areas around the world.

Shah said that throughout her four years at AIR, the group has targeted human trafficking, women’s empowerment, child education and building bridges between Pakistan and India, in addition to last year’s concentration on water sanitation.

“AIR has been around for over 40 years,” she said. “It all came down to today — practices and rehearsals and putting together every little aspect of the show.”

“We will never get rid of poverty [completely] because it’s not really feasible,” Kisseberth said. “But what we do want to do is raise awareness in our communities and help get rid of some of the stereotypes people have about [those] who are poor or what it means to be poor.”

Through the week, NJPIRG hopes to bring attention to the issue of poverty in America, which Kisseberth said is sometimes overlooked.

“A lot of people think that because we’re in the United States, we don’t have these same problems or it only affects a certain part of the population,” she said. “It’s not just something that happens in inner cities or in Africa or in Central America.”

They will host educational events with panels of homeless and formerly homeless people to share stories about homeless life, Kisseberth said. They hope to disprove the stereotype that homeless people are in their situations because of bad decision-making.

NJPIRG is dedicated to raising awareness among University stu-

dents through flyer campaigns, tabling and social media, Kisseberth said.

“Tabling and having a day of service allows people to know that an event is going on,” said Najmin Begum, an NJPIRG volunteer and School of Arts and Sciences senior.

A small donation can go a long way toward helping the hungry and homeless, Kisseberth said.

“Two dollars donated can actually buy 20 pounds worth of food,” she said.

Kisseberth said one challenge NJPIRG must overcome is getting the message out to students on the University’s spread-out campus.

“There are so many places you have to reach people at,” she said.

“By teaming up with other organizations, I think it will really help to make more of an impact.”

Overall, Kisseberth said she and other “Day of Service” organizers were hoping more volunteers showed up.

“But we were happy with the people that turned out and that were really excited to go out to the community,” she said.

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Elijah’s Promise preps fresh meals for families

BY YASHMIN PATEL STAFF WRITER

Straying away from traditional canned food drives, Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen is taking on a initiative to provide fresher, healthier options utilizing produce and perishable donations to cater to visitors’ nutritional needs.

Michelle Wilson, Development and Community Relations director of Elijah’s Promise, said all people, regardless of income, should have access to nutritious food and not junk food.

“We wanted to make sure that the food we’re serving is healthy, and it’s the kind of food you want to serve to your own families,” Wilson said. “[We need to ensure that it is] not bad to any of the health issues facing the folks that have diabetes and heart disease.”

Promise Catering is one of Elijah’s Promises’ programs that aim to make a difference by bringing healthier meals to low-income families, she said.

Last year the program provided more than 100,000 meals through contract catering, in which Elijah’s Promise establishes contracts with places like local schools and Meals On Wheels, she said.

Contract-catering food is similar to federal mandates by reimbursing low-income families for food, Wilson said.

“It’s based on a federal reduction, like the same way if you went to public school and you get a free breakfast program,” she said.

Graduates of the Promise Jobs Culinar y School prepare the meals that the catering department cooks, Wilson said. “[We] use food as a tool to help folks escape poverty by pro-

viding job training for the culinary school, which we now have over 500 graduates,” Wilson said.

Elijah’s Promise’s other initiative is to provide complimentary meals through the pay-what-youcan café, she said.

“People are also encouraged to pay what they can, and a lot of people pay more so they can provide meals for someone else,” Wilson said.

Individuals can also volunteer to have a different kind of meal, one that is more expensive, she said.

Aside from Elijah’s Promise purchasing food, a number of food donations are made through local markets and farms, Wilson said.

The meals that are provided to low-income families are based on a seasonal menu with whole grain rice, pasta and spices, Wilson said.

“Most of it is sourced locally and it’s a very healthy, delicious lunch,” she said.

Wilson said Elijah’s Promise also does not serve high sodium, high sugar or high fat food so their guests have access to a healthier meal.

“We made an effort a number of years ago to ser ve as much healthy and nutritious, fresh foods as possible,” she said. “We believe that ever yone should have access to fresh, healthy foods.”

One of the goals of Elijah’s Promise is the idea that food can change the life of others, she said.

“It’s been our goal to use food as a tool to help folks live a better life, eat better and have access to healthy, nutritious meals,” Wilson said.

Jennifer DeGorter, a School of Ar ts and Sciences junior,

said she never thought about donating fresh food because she was accustomed to canned food drives.

She said she would only donate fresh produce if soup kitchens promised to make use of it.

“If they don’t get used then it’s a waste,” she said. “It’s healthier for people in general. If people can’t afford fresh food and if they’re going to use [it] and it’s not going to go bad … I think that would be a good idea.”

Liz Cox, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said donating fresh foods could be ef fective if donations were properly coordinated to prevent food expiration.

“I think if it’s feasible, it would be a good idea,” she said. “I think if a proper system is put in place then it could work.”

EAST BRUNSWICK COMPANY TRANSFORMS TRASH INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY A company in East Brunswick is turning trash into energy, using the Edgeboro landfill in East Brunswick as its source.

Gas from the landfill is used as fuel for electricity generators owned by Cinnamon Bay LLC, according to an nj.com article.

The company began the operation last month, generating 9.6 megawatt hours of electricity, which is then

sold into the power grid, according to the article. It also constructed 9,000 solar panels on the sides of the landfill as a way of producing another 4.3 megawatt hours.

Jack Whitman, the general manager of Edgeboro Disposal Inc, said in the article that the use of the methane gas is another part of the constant cleanup of the Edgeboro landfill.

The landfill has been taking in millions of tons of

trash over the years, especially in the 1980s when most of the state’s dumps were reaching capacity, according to the article.

“We were probably handling a third of the garbage in the state,” Whitman said in the article.

Trash from the landfill is enough to release methane to keep the plant operating for 15 to 20 years, according to estimates cited in the article.

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CRDA considers fourth deadline for Camden residential project THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTIC CITY — More than $16 million has been given by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority during the past decade to a project that is not only the largest CRDA grant made to a project outside Atlantic City, but has also gone the longest without having anything to show for an investment outside the resort.

Now, the CRDA is negotiating a deadline extension — there have already been three — for the project, which in its latest form is an unbuilt $85 million gated residential project in Camden County.

The CRDA’s contract with the Camden County Improvement Authority requires the 612-unit condominium complex — and adjacent 4-acre tract slated for commercial use — to be “substantially” complete by the end of April 2012. If not, the improvement authority must pay the CRDA $12 million before the following August, the contract states.

But the 35-acre site of the former Pennsauken Mart is bare.

The improvement authority demolished the 50-year-old shopping center, but more site work has not happened.

CRDA and improvement authority officials first attributed delays to battles with the Pennsauken Mart’s former owners and occupants, then the national recession, and — most recently — to pollution cleanup taking longer than expected.

But those reasons aside, improvement authority staffers

acknowledge they won’t meet their buildout deadline, so they’ve asked the CRDA to rewrite their contract a fourth time, the improvement authority’s Executive Director James P. Blanda said.

“This is a major project — it’s going to take several years,” Blanda said.

Neither Blanda nor CRDA Deputy Director Susan Ney Thompson would say exactly how much extra time is under discussion. Blanda said construction would start within eight months and happen in phases, enabling occupancy to start a year after that.

Developer Sean Scarborough didn’t return calls seeking to confirm that.

Both agencies have made similar statements before, however.

They’ve also previously pledged repayment penalties for missed deadlines, only to extend them.

“The deal structure might be different in 2011 than in the past,” Thompson said. “But what we want to ensure is that our money is put to good use, we have an active project and have created jobs as a result.”

Originally, a $64 million sports arena was to be built by SFX Entertainment Inc., with the CRDA agreeing to kick in $24 million. The plans changed in 2006 to residential development by Beazer Homes. Renaissance Partners LLC, a subsidiary of Scarborough Properties, replaced Beazer as the redeveloper of the planned $85 million market-rate condo complex in 2007, the same year the grant award was reduced to $16.5 million.

Blanda started his job with the improvement authority in August 2009, seven years after the agencies started negotiating the original agreement. CRDA Executive Director John Palmieri then took over just six weeks ago.

But before their arrival, the CRDA had already complied with the improvement authority’s requests to extend deadlines by three years and provide the money in two payments in 2004 and 2007, instead of 10 annual installments as planned.

Having already received one installment of $2.4 million, the Camden County authority got $14.1 million at once, plus a separate $3 million commitment to help build its South Jersey Fire Training Center in Blackwood that opened three years ago as the Camden County Emergency Training Center, documents show.

In return for CRDA money, the improvement authority agreed to provide biannual spending and development updates and to return as much as $12 million if the project known as Renaissance Walk wasn’t finished on time. The original deadline passed two years ago, but the agencies had long since rewritten their contract to provide more time. They also changed project plans and private redevelopers three times.

The improvement authority also agreed to provide sale proceeds from the development above $16.5 million to the CRDA, documents show.

Camden County’s contracts with the CRDA and Renaissance

also allow for project delays that could occur — and they have — by promising that Camden County would borrow money to repay the CRDA if the improvement authority failed to close with Renaissance by April 2012.

But any of that could change yet again within two months if the new contract agreement is signed.

The $16.5 million that was given to the improvement authority has so far yielded a vacant lot.

That land, however, was once contaminated by three sources of pollution. Two of those — underground storage tanks and a now-removed gas station — were cleaned up before the improvement authority bought the proper ty, said Larr y Ragonese, spokesman for the New Jersey Depar tment of Environmental Protection.

The improvement authority also paid former owner Elliot Kattan’s $13 million mortgage balance and spent $1.6 million for demolition, according to Blanda and improvement authority documents.

But the sale to Scarborough will not close completely until the CCIA remediates contamination caused by the third pollution source, a former dry cleaning operation, their contract states.

The cleanup started two years ago. So far, it has cost more than $600,000. The improvement authority paid $400,000 and money from the state’s Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund covered the rest of the cost of injecting emulsified, food-grade vegetable oil

and sodium carbonate into the ground. Authorities hope the mixture will speed up the breakdown of trichloroethylene, or TCE, and tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, present in the soil, Ragonese and Blanda said.

“Whatever happened before this administration - we don’t really want to comment on that,” Ragonese said. “But we’ve seen the problem, we’re assessing it.

This [site] is one of the 16-plus contaminated sites in N.J. We’re aiming to more speedily, more effectively get rid of. It’s one on a long list, but ... we’re trying to chip away. It just takes a concerted effort.”

A report expected no later than February will give officials a better idea of how well that has worked, how to proceed and whether the site is clean enough for Scarborough to break ground.

That decision should come by February, Ragonese said.

The DEP typically documents that pollution has been satisfactorily addressed — as per state law — with a “no further action” letter. That letter won’t come for a couple years, Ragonese said.

Scarborough’s contract with the improvement authority requires that letter to be issued before he’ll close and start building — unless he agrees to a less formal assurance.

Scarborough did not return calls for comment for this story.

But Blanda said Scarborough was on board.

The CRDA board likely will vote on the fourth contract revision within the next two months, Thompson said.

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Sex does not sell when it comes to voting

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ust like the United States, Russia has problems getting people to the polls when it comes time for elections. We here in the states are treated to such lovely campaigns as 2004’s “Vote or Die,” which for some reason thought the best way to get people to the polls was to have P. Diddy threaten them. Likewise, the Russian public has found itself at the hands of a similarly ridiculous attempt by the United Russia Party to use sex to encourage voting. In the party’s latest advertisement, a very attractive young woman strolls into a polling station and proceeds to have sex with a young man in a voting booth. Or maybe the two just make out intensely — the commercial is sort of unclear about what exactly happens. All we know is that something sexy is going on inside that booth before the two leave hand-in-hand and cast their ballots in the box. The United Russia Party’s commercial fails for exactly the same reason the now-defunct Citizen Change’s “Vote or Die” campaign did. In trying to encourage citizens to get out and vote, the United Russia Party has forgotten that voting is a serious civic duty, not just another product.

Sex does indeed sell. There is no denying that. But voting need not be sold. Dentyne can air commercials of attractive people kissing to sell gum because it’s just gum. It isn’t the crux of democracy — voting is.

What the United Russia Party needs to be saying is, “Voting is an awesome power that you, as citizens of a democratic nation, have the privilege to wield. Use it wisely and well.” What the party is instead saying is, “Dude, you can totally get laid if you hang out at polling places.”

In deciding to sell voting through sex, the United Russia Party is turning voting into a vapid act, a lifestyle accessory on par with jeans and fast food. But voting is a much more serious thing. Voting is how the citizen engages with his country. It needs to be given serious thought and carried out with utmost caution. You don’t cast a vote to get some action. You go to the polls because you have the chance to tell your leaders what you want them to do in order to properly run the country you live in.

Reject reinstatement of waterboarding

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ear the end of former President George W. Bush’s time in office, high-level members of his administration decided to discontinue the torture practice of waterboarding on the grounds that the practice was illegal. Just ask Stephen Bradbury, head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice under Bush, who in early 2008 stated, “There has been no determination by the Justice Department that the use of waterboarding, under any circumstances, would be lawful under current law.” But despite the illicit nature of waterboarding, a simulated drowning technique used during interrogations, not everyone in the United States has given up on trying to justify its usefulness, especially in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s death. The event gave many proponents of the practice the chance to claim that without information obtained via waterboarding, the Al Qaeda leader would not have been found. Perhaps the most high-profile supporters of waterboarding at this moment are three GOP presidential hopefuls. Herman Cain, Rep. Michele Bachmann, RMinn., and Texas Gov. Rick Perry all stated at a recent debate that they would like to reinstate the use of waterboarding. The problem with this desire to return to waterboarding, though, is that it relies on misleading semantics and hazy evidence to make its case.

Cain and others are quick to point out that they support waterboarding because it is not torture but “enhanced interrogation.” Of course, no one is actually fooled by this attempt at obscuring the issue with weak wordplay. “Enhanced interrogation” is nothing more than the family-friendly name for torture, like referring to sex as “making love” instead of dropping the dreaded “f-bomb.” While proponents of waterboarding say that it is an important interrogation technique, there is no proof that any of the information extracted via waterboarding actually led to finding bin Laden or any terrorist. In fact, a large portion of the information on bin Laden’s whereabouts came not from tortured prisoners, but from Pakistani informants, including an Army major.

As a world power and one of the most developed nations on the globe, the United States should act as an example for other nations to follow. It cannot be such an example if it resorts to violating human rights through torture. Instead, the United States should look to diplomacy whenever possible and remember that our nation is built on the free and equal treatment of all people. It should not perpetuate barbarism such as waterboarding.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “The spirit was off the hook.”

Mark Belenky, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, on the grand finale of Sigma Chi’s “Derby Days” STORY IN UNIVERSITY

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Protect artistic expression Philosophies D of a Particular

will single out authors of oes anybody such dark and violent narrabelieve that Martin tives and send them to Scorsese, who speak to psychologist-types. made the classic gangster Usually little comes of films “Goodfellas” and these visits. Most would-be “Casino,” is a psychopath? psychopaths are nice people Does anybody believe that ED REEP who just happen to like cerhe is okay with murder and tain genres. But sometimes assault because the characthings get out of control. During the 2000s, one ters in his movies did those things? Does anymiddle-school student was sent to a psychiatric hosbody believe that Sid Meier, who made the video pital for writing a story about someone contemplatgame “Civilization,” endorses slaver y and genoing murder, and one high school student was arrestcide? For that matter, does anybody believe that ed on charges that he made terrorist threats in a William Shakespeare liked to eat people because story he wrote about his school being overrun with he wrote about cannibalism in “Titus zombies. Less extreme than those cases, the wouldAndronicus”? I sure hope not, because they would be-psychopath/nice person is sometimes encourbe terribly misguided. aged to undergo psychotherapy, which is expensive You see, most people distinguish fantasy from and generally unnecessary for everybody. reality. Most people understand that what happens Interestingly, anybody — students or faculty — in the imaginary world is not the same as what can be singled out for what they write in the conhappens in the real world. Likewise, they also realtext of an educational institution. One of my high ize that morality applies differently to fantasy than school teachers was actually sent to it does reality. Because imaginary the school’s psychologist because people do not actually have a tangi“It’s taken of a dark play he wrote and had the ble mind or body, they cannot truly drama club perform. As an aspiring be harmed, and thus, things we for granted Stephen King, I have been sent to would consider wrong in the real that people psychologist-types on account of world because they harm people I’d authored in elementar y are not necessarily wrong in the distinguish fantasy what school, middle school, high school imaginary world. and even college. Only in the latter This idea is readily understood from reality.” most was I theoretically allowed to but not often articulated. It should write what I wanted, but I was told I be articulated more often, though, should have a disclaimer indicating I did not actubecause of its importance to literature and enterally agree with any of the immoral actions tainment. It is the reason why good, decent human described in the story. I was at first insulted by beings can so easily root for Tony Montana in that suggestion, but it got me thinking. Perhaps “Scarface” and play video games like “Grand Theft disclaimers are the way to reconcile these pecuAuto.” It is the reason why the aforementioned liar notions held by educational institutions with creative men are not bad men even though their the fact that most people distinguish between fanart contains people doing bad things. If most peotasy and reality. Using disclaimers, students and ple didn’t distinguish fantasy from reality, much of faculty alike can freely express themselves while the action and horror genres would have to exist protecting themselves from psychologist-types underground. We would have good reason to who can inconvenience them greatly. It may seem think that Martin Scorsese is a violent criminal silly that any respectable everyday person would and that William Shakespeare had a taste for have to remind anybody that they are opposed to human flesh. things like rape and serial killing, but it’s a silly In most all precincts of our society, it’s taken for world we live in. granted that people distinguish fantasy from reality, In fact, I think the University should set an as it should be. Very few question the morality or example by facilitating such disclaimers. I think sanity of those who produce Hollywood movies, that ever yone who signs up for creative writing regardless of how much rape, murder and theft class should have to hand in a signed document those movies contain. with ever y stor y, poem or play they write in However, there is one institution in society that which they state their opposition to all sorts of does not like to recognize the idea that most peoundesirable behaviors in real life. This may seem ple distinguish between fantasy and reality — edulike more trouble for students and administracation. For some reason, educational institutions tors, but that’s better than the trouble caused by seem to think that anyone who writes a particularvisits to psychologist-types. ly dark or violent narrative has a non-remote chance of being dangerous or disturbed. Often, SEE REEP ON PAGE 9 educational institutions, if they have the power,

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REEP continued from page 8 There is one point I didn’t yet bring up in this article. Yes, psychopath Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho wrote violent narra-

tives in his college creative writing class. People say that, in light of the tragedy at Virginia Tech, we should be very cautious about what people write at school. I think that’s a faulty argument because there were many signs that Cho was crazy that didn’t relate to what he wrote. For instance, he was involved in weird

stalking incidences and claimed that his name was “Question Mark.”

Really though, people violently snap sometimes. It’s part of the world we live in, and often nothing can be done to prevent all damage done as a result of people violently snapping unless every human being is locked in a cage. You usually can’t tell when

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011 someone’s going to snap until it’s too late — it’s like detecting earthquakes. It is a sad truth, but the best we can do is train ourselves as good, decent people in self-defense, and then live our lives, playing our violent video games, watching our violent movies and reading our violent books.

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Ed Reep is a Rutgers Business School junior majoring in supply chain and marketing science with minors in economics and business and technical writing. His column, “Philosophies of a Par ticular American,” runs on alternate Mondays.

Daily review: laurels and darts

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ometimes, it seems like our state’s public employees will never learn that the Internet is not a private sphere. Union Township teacher Viki Knox angered many people across New Jersey last month because of the anti-gay comments she made on her Facebook page. Now, 29-year-old Hector Rosado, a member of the Orange Police Department, has been fired for posting racial slurs on his Twitter account.

Rosado also publicly criticized his department via Twitter, again using explicit language and racial slurs.

According to Rosado’s latest Twitter post, which he posted after being fired, he feels “misunderstood often.”

We would like to point out that there it is rather difficult for anyone to misunderstand racially insensitive language. We give Rosado a dart for his conduct.

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The world of sports is traditionally seen as a man’s world. It can be hard being a woman on the field, and even harder being a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender athlete. That’s why it was comforting to see 25 student members of the University’s athletic community come together last week to sign the Athlete Ally Pledge. The event, held through a collaborative effort between Project Civility and the Dean of Students Office, encouraged equality in sports and implored all athletes to show support for the LGBT members of their community. We give the 25 signees a laurel for standing up in solidarity against discrimination. Project Civility and the Dean of Students Office also deserve recognition for their part in orchestrating the event.

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he Rutgers wrestling team claimed two individual titles and three second-place finishes Saturday at the Brockport/Oklahoma Gold Classic.

Junior Mario Mason won his 149-pound bracket and coMost Outstanding Wrestling honors, while classmate Gregory Zannetti won the 174pound bracket.

The 15th-ranked Scarlet Knights finished third overall at the tour nament behind No. 10 Oklahoma and No. 11 Mar yland.

For complete coverage, see tomorrow’s edition of The Daily Targum.

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golf coach Maura WatersBallard secured a recruit for next year’s class.

Coronado High School (Nev.) senior Melanie Chambers signed a National Letter of Intent to play for Rutgers.

The Henderson, Nev., native won the 2011 Nevada State Junior Championship — her second title — and finished fourth in the Nevada State High School Championships.

Chambers has three top-10 finishes on the American Junior Golf Association tour and played at Pebble Beach in the 2010 First Tee Open.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES wide receiver DeSean Jackson was inactive for yesterday’s 2117 loss against the Arizona Cardinals.

The two-time Pro Bowl wideout missed a special teams meeting, which led to his benching. According to team officials, this is not the first time Jackson, who is in the final year of his rookie deal, missed or arrived late to a team meeting.

Jason Avant replaced Jackson in the starting lineup.

JONATHAN PAPELBON and the Philadelphia Phillies agreed to a four-year deal worth about $50 million pending a physical.

The former Boston Red Sox closer converted 31 saves in 34 chances last season with 87 strikeouts and a 2.94 ERA. Reports indicated the Phillies reached a deal with former closer Ryan Madson, but the deal fell through, leading to the pursuit of Papelbon.

This is the first team change in Papelbon’s career.

THE ST. LOUIS Cardinals do not plan to improve the offer they extended to All-Star first baseman Albert Pujols.

The free agent received a nine-year, $210 million offer from the Cardinals, but is also listening to offers from other teams.

As of Sunday, the Miami Marlins are the only other team to have extended an offer to Pujols, although the terms are unknown.

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Redshirt freshman fullback Michael Burton breaks a tackle on a 13-yard reception in the third quarter Saturday against Army.

Burton caught a 3-yard touchdown pass in the flat earlier in the game to put the Scarlet Knights on the board.

NOTEBOOK: LeGrand sees field for pregame coin toss continued from back after speaking with LeGrand on Sunday about wearing LeGrand’s number.

The Scarlet Knights’ leading tackler continued to coax Schiano into permitting the jersey change throughout the week.

Schiano eventually obliged.

“Khas kind of sprung it on me early in the week. I said, ‘Let me think about it,’” Schiano said. “I was going to let him do it the whole week.”

LeGrand took par t in the game’s coin toss before watching Greene finish the contest with 13 tackles against the Black Knights. Greene leads the Big East with 105 stops on the season.

“I appreciate him doing it,” LeGrand said. “It means a lot, especially in this game.”

The senior suffered a paralyzing injury against Army last season at New Meadowlands Stadium. LeGrand remains a visible presence in the Rutgers locker room, where Schiano first saw him when the team arrived Saturday at Yankee Stadium.

“I think Khas and Eric have a special bond,” Schiano said. “For him to be able to wear that jersey — they agreed with no name on the back — that was neat.”

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fullback Michael Burton scored his first career touchdown against the Black Knights, a 3-yard reception from sophomore quarterback Chas Dodd.

“Really what was going through my mind after I scored was to thank the coaches and the

offensive line,” Burton said. “I was just fortunate I was able to make the play.”

Burton earned the majority of reps at fullback in place of senior Joe Martinek. He carried the ball once and caught another pass on a Dodd rollout for 13 yards.

Burton credited offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti, who utilized the fullback in the same capacity at Pittsburgh, with his continued production.

“He puts me in that position to be able to do that,” Burton said.

“If it wasn’t for him, if it wasn’t for the offensive line, I wouldn’t have those opportunities. Because of that, it’s great. I’m able to find success because of the way coach Cignetti is in this offense.”

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Te continued to struggle Saturday, when he missed a PAT for the first time in 88 attempts.

He also missed a 26-yard field goal attempt in the third quarter, dropping to 15-for-25 on field goals this season. Te last missed 10 field goal attempts in 2009, his second year as the Knights’ kicker.

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end Jamil Merrell made his third consecutive start after suffering through a foot injury during the beginning of the season.

The Bear, Del., native recorded a career-high six tackles in the victory, including 1.5 for a loss, as an active member of the Scarlet Knights’ defensive front.

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that Rutgers’ matchup with Cincinnati on Saturday will kick off at noon at High Point Solutions Stadium.

A win will give the Scarlet Knights a share of first place in the Big East.

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BY PATRICK LANNI STAFF WRITER

A five-set win over visiting St. John’s capped the Rutgers volleyball team’s season yesterday at t h e VOLLEYBALL College 2 Avenue ST. JOHN’S 3 Gym. RUTGERS A 3-1 start to the decisive fifth set put the Scarlet Knights (10-21, 3-11) in a good position down the stretch.

“We put in a strong lineup to start [the fifth set] to get us going,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “Where you start is where you end in fifth games. We got off to a good start and we finished strong.”

Controlling the match in its final moments, freshman Sofi Cucuz placed an attack past the Johnnies’ Gabriela Petkova to cut the St. John’s three-point streak and start the Knights’ late rally. St. John’s answered on the next two plays, closing the score to 13-11.

But Rutgers scored the next two points, finishing the match on a Red Storm error.

The Knights seemed ready for a victory with a 25-14 win in the first set, but mid-game adjustments by the St. John’s coaching staff put the Red Storm back in the match.

“They started to figure us a little more,” said senior captain Kallie Pence. “They had a few substitutions that helped them out, so we had to figure out what they were doing again, and we adjusted well, especially at the end when it mattered most.”

The victory gave the team 10 wins for the third consecutive year.

On a day when senior co-captains Pence and Hannah Curtis were honored, Curtis was happy to secure the win.

“I don’t think words can ever describe how much this victory means to Kallie and I, but also as a team in general,” Curtis said.

“We’ve kind of been struggling to find our identity, so there’s nothing better than going out of your final college volleyball game with a five-set victory.”

With a win yesterday, Rutgers did something it failed to do all season. After beating Connecticut on Saturday, the Knights finished their season with back-to-back Big East wins for the first time.

“I think we came out ver y confident [Saturday],” Cur tis said. “[Confidence] is something we’ve been str uggling with, but we came out confident and we didn’t play ner vous or chaotic.”

A 3-0 sweep of 12th-place UConn (14-14, 4-9) gave the Knights confidence prior to Sunday’s match against St. John’s. “[The win] was definitely a self-esteem boost for us,” Curtis said after defeating UConn.

“We’ve kind of been a little down on ourselves, so this win is going to give us a little more confidence to carry onto the next game.”

Cucuz notched a game-high 18 kills and Jones added 13 of her own en route to a .321 hitting percentage.

Setter Stephanie Zielinski notched her 17th double-double of the season, with 50 assists and 13 digs.

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Monique Oliver led the Knights frontcourt with 18 points and nine rebounds. Oliver’s efforts led the Knights to a 42-38 lead in the paint despite the Golden Bears’ size advantage. The center is without Chelsey Lee because of the forward’s shoulder surgery.

Oliver’s play makes up for RU’s lack of size

BY JOSH BAKAN CORRESPONDENT

Even though Chelsey Lee did not don a Rutgers uniform, the senior forward was present on t h e Rutgers women’s KNIGHT basketball NOTEBOOK team’s bench in its 73-70 win against California.

But without the team’s leading rebounder of the past two years on the court, the Knights were at a size disadvantage against the Golden Bears. The Knights competed with the Golden Bears on the boards, with Cal holding only a 40-36 rebound advantage.

Oliver led the way in rebounding with nine to begin the season without her starting frontcourt partner from last year. The Miami

REALIGNMENT: Sanu breaks century mark sixth time continued from back underwhelming team running performance into a respectable one.

Redshirt freshmen Michael Burton and Brandon Coleman caught quarterback Chas Dodd’s two touchdown passes, but Sanu drove the offense.

The 6-foot-2, 215-pounder had 13 catches for 129 yards — the sixth time this season he had double-digit receptions and at least 100 receiving yards.

He broke Kenny Britt’s Rutgers single-season receptions record at 88 and passed Fitzgerald with No. 92. He finished the game with 94 catches on the season. “[Fitzgerald is] my favorite receiver, so it’s pretty amazing just to be in the same category as him,” Sanu said. “He’s just a tremendous player. I’m kind of speechless.”

Sanu made things easy on Dodd, who made his first start since Oct. 1 at Syracuse.

He completed 17-of-27 passes for 196 yards.

He found Coleman downfield for a 38-yard strike and Burton in

native also scored 12 of her 18 points in the paint to give the Knights a 42-38 scoring advantage in that regard.

“I was just going off of my team’s energy and going after the other post players,” Oliver said.

“A lot of the girls are much bigger than me, so I’m just getting around and moving my feet.”

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two seasons with trips to California, and the three West Coast games all resulted in losses.

The Knights earned a different result by opening the season with a California opponent yesterday at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, finally solving the Golden Bears.

After dropping the 2010-11 season opener to California, playing in Piscataway may have made the difference in the 3-point win, the flat for a 3-yard score, but admitted he forced two throws on interceptions that gave Army life.

“At the quarterback position, we have to realize you can live to see another down,” Schiano said.

“Sometimes we think the whole game hinges on this play. It doesn’t, unless it’s the last play of the game.

We need to be able to throw the ball away or even take a sack sometimes.

It’s OK to punt in college football.”

It is especially true with Schiano’s defense, which held the nation’s leading rushing offense to more than 100 yards less than its season average for the second time this season.

First it was Navy, which ran for only 162 yards earlier in the year. This time it was Army, which rushed for 228 yards when it averages 365.8.

The triple-option offenses are off the schedule now, and Rutgers returns next week to face the spread offense that terrorized it for years.

But Cincinnati lost quarterback Zach Collaros and its game on Saturday, and Rutgers suddenly has new life.

“Because of what we did, we don’t have our destiny in our own hands,” Schiano said. “We still don’t.”

and that could mean a stronger start for the Knights in its season opening two-game homestand.

“The point that Chelsey Lee was making was that last year we’d go down … and stay down, but that wasn’t the case this year,” Stringer said.

The Knights also lost to Stanford twice in California. But for the first time since 2008, the Knights begin their season with a 1-0 record.

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higher percentage than California from the free-throw stripe yesterday at the RAC. But what set the Golden Bears apar t at the line was the number of times they got there.

Rutgers shot 15-of-20 from the stripe while Cal converted 19-of30 chances from the line.

The Knights turned things around in the second half with a 16-10 free throw attempt advantage, but they dug themselves into a hole early with foul trouble.

Rutgers committed its seventh foul with 7:17 left in the first half to get in the penalty, which was partly what allowed Cal to shoot 20 free throws in the period.

But with additional depth, Rutgers was able to make up for the foul trouble from key players.

“We have 10 people. That’s kind of a luxury, so we figured ‘Let’s go,’” Stringer said. “We were trying to apply pressure into the trap in order to prevent easy baskets.”

Khadijah Rushdan and Betnijah Laney ended the first half with three fouls a piece, but the duo finished the game without reaching the five-foul limit.

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Sophomore cornerback Jordan Thomas returns a blocked punt 32 yards for a touchdown to secure Rutgers’ win against Army.

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Stringer’s 55-press smothers Cal in opening win

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZ ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

For one half of play it was obvious the No. 16 Rutgers women’s basketball team felt the pain of playing without 6-foot-2 senior for ward WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Chelsey CALIFORNIA 70 Lee.Then RUTGERS 73 t h e Scarlet Knights remembered what they had on the perimeter.

Rutgers (1-0) stormed out in the second half with a 19-2 run, junior guard Erica Wheeler went off from beyond the arc and the Knights held off a resilient California squad to earn a 73-70 victor y at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

“I was extremely pleased with all of the freshmen’s efforts,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer.

“They played extremely hard, they hit the floor, they were running, they were reading, they got excited about the easy baskets on defense. … The freshmen will learn and execute better, and that wasn’t a bad start.”

The Golden Bears (0-1) fought back late with a 19-10 run after Rutgers held onto a double-digit lead for the majority of the half.

Cal even got a 3-point look from Brittany Boyd with time winding down, but the ball shanked off the front of the rim and went out of bounds to close the game. Fortunately for Stringer, her 55-press did enough to win the Knights the game after a surge to open the half.

Stringer often notes the time it takes for her 55-press to mature. But the Knights looked plenty comfor table in the press yesterday, forcing Cal into 24 tur novers and conver ting plenty of of fense from their defense.

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Freshman wing Betnijah Laney earned her first career start in the Knights 73-70 victory against California yesterday in Piscataway. The Clayton, Del., native scored a game-high 18 points.

Stringer utilized her guardheavy recruiting class to its utmost out of the 55 in the second half, with Betnijah Laney serving as the front player and Syessence Davis roaming on a wing.

Laney gave plenty for the Rutgers faithful to be excited about after her first career start.

The Clayton, Del., native tied junior Monique Oliver with a game-high 18 points, with most

coming from drives to the basket.

Though Laney missed her fair share of layups, she stood out among her freshman teammates.

“She understands that she has to be able to knock down the easy ones,” said fifth-year senior guard Khadijah Rushdan, who recorded six assists and is Laney’s cousin.

“She went after it. It’s the first game of the season. I’m not

making excuses for her, but she’ll get it. A lot of those shots were rushed.”

Rutgers forced nine turnovers in the first five minutes of the second half to establish its lead, and from there, the Knights never looked back.

In all, the Knights notched 20 points off Cal’s turnovers.

Wheeler, dormant for most of the opening half, held a 3-point

shooting clinic at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

The Miami native scored 14 points on a 4-for-6 shooting clip front 3-point land, notching two amid the Knights’ big run to start the half.

Senior guard Nikki Speed started the game for the Knights, but Wheeler quickly entered early in the first period.

The Parkway Academy (Fla.) product also got it done defensively with six steals.

“Earlier during the game coach [Stringer] said we needed to get the energy up, and I was just looking for anything that could spark the energy for us, on defense or of fense,” Wheeler said.

Cal’s post presence tested the Knights before they broke out in the second half.

The Golden Bears scored a combined 38 points in the paint, while their four post players gave Oliver trouble throughout the game.

Freshman Christa Evans earned a modest three minutes on the floor, forcing Oliver, Laney and senior forward April Sykes to rotate down defensively.

The height disadvantage led to the Golden Bears’ four-player post rotation scoring 35 points.

But it did not take long for Stringer’s explosiveness on the perimeter to show up. The multitude of rotations Stringer put on the floor did not always click, as the Knights had their own struggles with 16 turnovers.

Still, in having a deep lineup for the first time in years, Stringer had plenty to work with in the 55, and she took full advantage.

“We have 10 people and that’s like a luxur y,” Stringer said. “We never had 10 so we figured, ‘Let’s go. Anyone who’s tired step of f.’”

Knights take opener despite absence of go-to scorer

BY TYLER BARTO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Head coach Mike Rice had to breathe for five minutes Friday MEN’S BASKETBALL f o l l o w ing the DARTMOUTH 56 Rutgers men’s RUTGERS 62 b a s k e t b a l l team’s season opener against Dartmouth at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

Yes, his team won, 62-56, in a game that closely resembled its first contest a year ago — an over time loss to another Ivy League school.

No player carried the team to the victor y in that defeat.

This time, Rice did not need one to.

“We were at Princeton last year and played almost exactly the same type of game — gave ef for t but were so sloppy on the details of the game,” Rice said. “It’s always better to win than lose. This will help us in the future.”

At moments, junior wing Dane Miller answered the call, leading the Scarlet Knights (10) with 12 points and tying for the team lead with six rebounds.

During other stretches it was freshman point guard Myles Mack, who contributed nine points in his Rutgers debut.

And at other times any number of Knights chipped in to the cause, albeit only for stretches.

Rutgers’ eight-man rotation last year likely could not survive without someone shouldering the load. The difference Friday was none of its 11 players had to.

“You turn around and Malick Kone is playing the four,” Miller said. “You turn around again and Gilvydas is at the five and chemistry is a little off because of different people getting subbed in and out. But at some point in the game we caught on to it.”

Mack and six other Knights made their first appearances in Rutgers uniforms against Dartmouth (0-1), which challenged their defense with shot attempts late in the shot clock.

The Big Green converted three late shots in a row and capped the first half with a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, narrowing their deficit to only one.

Still, Rice’s philosophy of aggressive, switching defense paid off. Dartmouth shot only 36.5 percent from the field, including 4-for-22 from beyond the arc.

“On the defensive end, we locked in,” Mack said. “At the end of the shot clock, they got desperation shots and they went in half the time. It was great defense — we just have to play through the shot clock, all 35 seconds.”

Rice unveiled the full-court pressure defense he withheld last year, but the results were mixed.

The Knights’ half-court persistence remained for 40 minutes.

“Some of the close-outs and shot contests I thought were really good for a young team,” Rice said. “I’m pleased on one end. I kind of expected this. I just thought we would have a bigger lead at times.”

The Knights built up several nine-point cushions but never legitimately threatened to pull away against Dar tmouth.

Without a go-to scorer, they sur vived possession to possession with whoever owned the hot hand — in relative terms.

Mack and freshman Eli Carter earned their first career starts, and combined for 18 points after double-digit performances more than a week ago in Rutgers’ exhibition.

At some points, the Knights’ rhythm suffered from fouls. At another, it was Rice’s technical foul for arguing a charge referees called on freshman point guard Jerome Seagears.

And on even more occasions their continued development in Rice’s re-screen of fense reared its head.

“We just didn’t have a good flow of the game,” Rice said.

For at least one opening night in Piscataway, Rutgers had the luxur y to win without it.

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Junior wing Dane Miller scored a team-high 12 minutes and grabbed six rebounds in the Knights’ season-opening victory.

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Junior wide receiver Mohamed Sanu stiff-arms an Army defender following one of his 13 catches Saturday at Yankee Stadium. Sanu broke single-season receptions records for both Rutgers and the Big East, passing NFL players Kenny Britt and Larry Fitzgerald in the record books with his sixth double-digit reception game of the season.

Sanu’s record-setting day, special teams touchdown help Rutgers win while Big East dominoes fall RU’s way

BY STEVEN MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

NEW YORK — Mohamed Sanu occasionally allows his mind to wander to what would happen if he stayed at safety, FOOTBALL w h e r e G r e g Schiano said the junior was immediately going to start for the Rutgers football team.

GAME 10

He set a goal of 100 receptions this season for the Scarlet Knights.

But he never thought about breaking a record held by Larr y Fitzgerald, his favorite receiver, and he never thought it would happen only 10 games into the season.

Even more absurd than Sanu’s new Rutgers and Big East singleseason receptions records: Rutgers returned to the locker room after Saturday’s 27-12 victor y against Army to learn it will be playing next

BY TYLER BARTO NEW YORK — Junior linebacker Khaseem Greene was no stranger to No. 52 prior to the Rutgers football team’s 27-12 win against Army at Yankee Stadium.

He grew up idolizing Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis and wore the number during his Pop Warner days in Elizabeth, N.J. But the No. 52 took on a deeper mean-

and timely plays on defense and special teams.

For most of four quarters, it was close.

Then a tripping penalty negated Stephen Fraser’s run to the 5-yard line that would set up Army to take a lead with seven minutes remaining. Army never threatened to drive after the penalty, lined up to punt and let Wayne Warren through for a block.

Sophomore cornerback Jordan Thomas scooped the loose ball and

ing Saturday, when Greene donned the jersey to honor paralyzed teammate Eric LeGrand.

“It felt real good. It feels good to put on that number and honor Eric the way I did and the way this team did,” Greene said.

“Collectively, we all honored him by our play this game.”

Greene first approached head coach Greg Schiano on Tuesday

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LEADERS PASSING CHAS DODD 17-27, 196 YDS, 2 TDS, 2 INTS

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Total Yds 314 305

Pass 196 77

Rush 118 228

EXTRA POINT RUSHING LARRY DIXON 9 CAR, 93 YDS, 1 TD

RECEIVING MOHAMED SANU 13 REC, 129 YDS

returned it 32 yards to give Rutgers a secure 20-12 lead.

“If it weren’t for our special teams play, our record would probably be upside down right now,” Warren said. “There’s no doubt that special teams is huge for us.”

Redshirt freshman Jawan Jamison broke a 56-yard run in the final minute to make the game appear more lopsided than it was and turn an

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week for a share of first place in the Big East.

“I would trade [the records] in any day,” said Sanu, asked which news meant more.

The Knights still need help for a Bowl Championship Series bid — wins against Cincinnati and Connecticut coupled with a loss for Louisville and West Virginia.

If they get there, it will be because of the same reasons they beat Army at Yankee Stadium: Sanu

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The Scarlet Knights scored their 51st nonoffensive touchdown during Greg Schiano’s 11-year tenure when Jordan Thomas ran back Wayne Warren’s blocked punt from 32 yards out to give Rutgers a 20-12 lead. It was the sixth non-offensive score of the season for the Knights.

South Florida Syracuse

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Pittsburgh Louisville

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West Virginia No. 23 Cincinnati

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No. 7 Oregon No. 4 Stanford

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