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The English Department discoversthe idea of filmmaking as storywriting through theirlecture series thissemester.
The football team isfacing more pressure to do wellafter blowing itsfirst game in thenewer, bigger andbetter stadium.
BACK IN THE RANKSToday: Showers
High: 70 ⢠Low: 59After shutting out both Towson and No. 13 Penn State this weekend, the Rutgers womenâs soccer team
moved up to 17th place in the NSCAA rankings and No. 11 in the Soccer America polls.
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U. facultydelay salaryincreases toavoid layoffs
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The University faculty is safe from layoffsfor two years but will accept a delay in payraises. Other unions continue negotiations toprotect their membersâ jobs.
Though the University administration hasfinished negotiations with the AmericanAssociations of University Professors âAmerican Federation of Teachers on anagreeable note, negotiations still continuewith the Union of Rutgers Administrators âAmerican Federation of Teachers.
âAlmost all of the University unions are inthe middle of contracts but the Universityasked them to reopen. We reopened our con-tract because of the financial crisis,âPresident of Rutgers AAUP-AFT AdrienneEaton said.
The AAUP-AFT represents 2,500 facultyand 1,700 teaching and graduate assistants,according to the AAUP-AFT Web site.
The state tied some of the state aid tothe University cuts in labor cost, Eatonsaid. The faculty contracts have finishednegotiations but the other labor unions arestill in dialogue.
The University approached the union dur-ing the middle of their contracts with a nego-tiation, which is not usual, but because of thefinancial crisis the faculty agreed to negoti-ate, she said.
âNobody wanted to give up any of theirpay increases. What we did is delay the payincreases rather than give them up perma-nently,â Eaton said.
The teaching assistants, graduate stu-dents and part-time lecturers made no con-cessions while full-time faculty will sufferdelays in pay raises, Eaton said. The facultyhad no job security concerns unlike theother unions.
The issue regarding furloughs, teachingloads and research funds were resolvedfavorably, according to a letter Eaton sent toUniversity faculty.
âWe are gratified that the University com-munity has come together to help mitigateour budget difficulties so that Rutgers cancontinue to provide the best educationalexperience and greatest value for our stu-dents,â Vice President of Academic AffairsPhillip J. Furmanski said.
The union membership ratified theagreement last Friday, he said. TheUniversity administration thinks it is a goodagreement for the University and for theunionâs membership.
âIn these very challenging economictimes, this is a fair and equitable agreementthat will prevent disastrous budget cuts and
WESTFIELD â Independent gubernatorial candidate ChrisDaggett; Assemblyman John McKeon, D- 27, representingDemocratic candidate Gov. Jon S. Corzine; and Atlantic CountyUtilities Authority President Rick Dovey, representingRepublican candidate Chris Christie, set aside partisan divide lastnight to discuss the importance of clean energy across the state.
At the town hall meeting held in the Westfield MemorialLibrary, Daggett said he would hear all sides of every environ-mental issue to accomplish an agenda for clean energy in a non-partisan way.
Specifically, he said the state needs to be involved in moreresearch development and technology â especially at institu-tions of higher education â to achieve new ways to advanceclean energy initiatives.
McKeon said the Corzine administration has set high goals forclean energy and has achieved many of them, such as making thestate second in the nation for most solar power usage.
He said the governorâs Energy Master Plan intends to have 30percent of the stateâs energy from renewable sources by 2020.
Dovey said there is a lot of polarization in many of the guber-natorial issues, but clean energy should not be one of them.
Christie differs in his recognition of the sense of immediacy inmaking the goals set by Corzine a reality, he said.
âWe always have to stand back a little bit and figure out whatdo we have to do in the next few years to make [clean energy]reality,â said Matt Elliott of Environment New Jersey, one of thestateâs largest statewide environmental groups that hosted theevent. âAnd thatâs where I think the governorâs race comes in.â
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GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES CITE ENVIRONMENT AS NON-PARTISAN ISSUE
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Students gain voice on local committeeBY MARY DIDUCHASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR
While some students were hanging atthe beach or trying to earn some extra cashthis summer, one group started working fortheir community as elected politicians.
Several University students won seatson the Middlesex County DemocraticCommittee in June as par t of theDemocrats for Change campaign.
School of Ar ts and Sciences juniorBarbara Cepeda, the new committee-woman for the 5th Ward, District 2,
said winning the campaign was an invaluable experience.
âItâs great though because with any [orga-nization] you network [and] you meet newpeople. Itâs also good just to gain an
Dean envisions engineering program improvementsBY GREG FLYNN
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During his teenage years in the smalltown of Daisetta, Texas, Thomas Farrisrepaired eighteen-wheelers, helping
truckers by figuring out how to get thebig rigs back on the oil field roads.
Now Farris is figuring out how toincrease the size and strengthen thestature of the School of Engineering asthe new dean.
âThe primary goal is to make theschool bigger in all dimensions,â he said.
Farris, appointed as dean in June,said he has plans to enhance theschoolâs existing strengths.
âThe challenges of the 21st centu-r y include health, energy, trans-por tation and sustainability andthose are all areas where the School
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The U.S. government publicly disseminated misleading accounts of the nationâs response to the Sept.11 attacks, according to John J. Farmer Jr.
The former senior counsel and team leader to the 9/11 Commission, Farmer presents this theory inhis new book, âThe Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11.â
Published yesterday, Farmer revisits the attacks through recently declassified tapes and transcripts,including data previously omitted by the Departments of Defense and Transportation, according to apress release.
âAt some level of government, at some point in time, a decision was made not to tell the truth aboutthe national response to the attacks on the morning of Sept. 11,â Farmer said in the release. âWe owe thetruth to the families of the victims of Sept. 11. We owe it to the American public as well, because only byunderstanding what has gone wrong in the past can we assure our nationâs safety in the future.â
Farmer offers several lessons in âThe Ground Truth,â proposing the government learns frompast mistakes.
âUnless we change government, unless we plan to respond to crises the way we now know they areexperienced, we will fail to protect ourselves,â Farmer said in the release. â[This will bring] horrifyingconsequences.â
A former attorney general of New Jersey, chief counsel to former Gov. Christine Todd Whitman andfounding partner of a New Jersey law firm, Farmer added dean of the Rutgers School of Law to his resumeJuly 1, according to the release.
âThe Ground Truth: The Untold Story of America Under Attack on 9/11â is available wherever booksare sold.
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English department explores filmmaking as writingBY DEIRDRE S. HOPTON
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Martin Scorsese, the Coenbrothers, Quentin Tarantino andDavid Lynch have the knowl-edge on how to become a film-maker and thanks to Dena Seidelof the Universityâs WritersHouse, students can as well.
Seidel, a University profes-sor, teaches two filmmakingclasses called âDigitalStorytellingâ and âDocumentaryFilmmaking for Writers,â andboth are considered to be apart of the Writers House inthe English depar tmentbecause she highlights the cre-ative writing standpoint of mak-ing a film.
âIn both [classes], Iâmemphasizing story and storystructure, but it is storytellingfor the screen,â Seidel said.âThere are no prerequisites forthese classes other than basic
composition. These are creativewriting classes taught throughWriters House.â
The âDigital Storytellingâclass focuses on how the film-maker writes for the screen andlearns to adapt to the changes,which take place when soundsand images are added to a story,Seidel said.
The âDocumentar yFilmmaking for Writersâ classrevolves around a professionalinterview conducted by eachstudent, which is then shapedinto a short documentary film,she said.
Douglass College seniorLizette Gesuden said she decidedto take both classes because shewas curious about filmmaking.
âThe first class I took wasâDigital Storytellingâ and then Itook âDocumentaryâ the nextsemester,â Gesuden said. âIthas been, overall, an amazingand life-changing experience
for me and a tremendous learning experience.â
Pilar Timpane, a recentUniversity College graduate,has taken both of Seidelâs class-
es, worked as a Writers Houseintern and is now a paid staffmember working on a documen-tary project with Seidel.
âIâve enjoyed so much work-ing with the people I get towork with, and we all loveworking with Dena because welearn a lot every day. Itâs likewe get personal tutor hours all
day long,â Timpane said. âIâvelearned so much about how aproduction happens and how itgets made. Iâve learned tonsabout making a frame look good and thinking about frames.â
Students like Timpane andGesuden can make seven-minutefilms for the âDocumentaryFilmmaking for Writersâ classand can be viewed on the pro-gramâs Web site.
Timpaneâs film, which isavailable for viewing on the pro-gramâs Web site, is titled âVeo AVicenteâ and focuses on theregrets of an immigrant wholeft his family behind.Gesudenâs documentar y istitled âBeing Balut.â It high-lights the trials and tribulationsof assimilating her familyâsFilipino culture with her ownAmerican upbringing.
Besides teaching the courseon her own, Seidel often brings
guest speakers to her classesthrough the program.
Past guests include JennieLivingston, who made the filmâParis Is Burning;â RossKauf fman, who won anAcademy Award for his docu-mentary âBorn Into Brothels;âand Sam Pollard, whose film credits include the documentar y âWhen the Levees Broke.â
âSam Pollardâs visit helpedme decide I didnât want to doprint journalism,â Gesudensaid. âEverything he said, it justreally got my head turning.â
Seidel said all levels of tech-nical proficiency are welcomein her class because shegrades ef fort and story ratherthan technical ability.Interested students areencouraged to check out theWriters House Web site andlook for Seidelâs classes in thespring semester.
William & Mary students see change in drug, alcohol policiesCOLLEGE OF
WILLIAM & MARYU-WIRE
The College of William andMar y has joined a growingnumber of universities of feringmedical amnesty for both drugsand alcohol.
At the start of the schoolyear, students seeking help formedical emergencies causedby illegal drug use no longerface disciplinary consequencesfrom the Dean of StudentsOf fice for violating theCollegeâs alcoholic beverage ordrug policies.
While students at theCollege will not face discipli-nary action if they invoke med-ical amnesty, they may still suf-fer consequences includingrequired counseling and drugand alcohol education. Similarto the Collegeâs alcoholamnesty policy, students mustinvoke amnesty âproactively,âaccording to the language of thepolicy. Students cannot ask foramnesty after having beencaught. The policy does not
apply to the William and Mar y and Williamsburg Police Departments.
Medical amnesty policiesfor drugs and alcohol havebeen implemented on collegecampuses throughout theUnited States. Other universi-ties of fering full drug and alco-hol amnesty include theUniversity of Ohio, Brown University, VanderbiltUniversity and the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology.
The University of Virginiaand Duke University providemedical amnesty solely for casesinvolving alcohol use.
Achieving full drug amnestyhas been a long-term goal ofstudent government at theCollege, according to StudentAssembly Vice President RyanRuzic J.D. â11.
âItâs something that theStudent Assemblyâs been push-ing for a long time,â Ruzic said.âItâs a really great idea becauseother wise students wouldnâtget the medical help they needfor fear of being punished bythe university.â
Ruzic believes that drugamnesty makes sense for thesame reason as alcoholamnesty â student safety.
âItâs a very common senseexpansion of the alcoholamnesty,â he said.
According to Ruzic, there
was little opposition to full drugamnesty in the SA, thoughsome senators asked if fullmedical amnesty might sendthe wrong message. âTherewere some in the SA who werereluctant to extend amnestybecause they viewed it as con-
doning that sort of behavior,âRuzic said. Nevertheless, theSA legislation urging theadministration to adopt fullmedical amnesty passed unani-mously this April.
This most recent, successfulinitiative was passed after dis-cussions between SA membersand the Dean of Students office.Sen. Ben Brown â10 and SAUndersecretar y of CollegePolicy for Drug and AlcoholReform Will Sinnott â11, devel-oped a proposal for the new pol-icy, which they presented to theDean of Students office in thewinter of 2008. The idea wasthen seized upon by AssociateDean of Students Dave Gilbert.
According to Brown, Gilbertwould rather see [students]seek medical attention than notdo so for fear of a student con-duct violation. Brown waspleased with the role the SAplayed in updating the Collegeâsmedical amnesty policy.
âI donât think [full medicalamnesty] would have beenenacted this year or in comingyears without the SA,â Brown
said. â[Dean Gilbert] hadnâtbeen thinking about it until wecame to him.â
The new policy is somethingof a triumph for the SA.According to Brown, the SA isoften handicapped by its lack ofinfluence in the administration.
âItâs really frustrating not hav-ing any authority to changethings at the school,â he said.âMost of the bills like that donâtactually change the policybecause we donât have authorityover student conduct.â NeitherRuzic nor Brown foresee the poli-cy having an immediate effect.
According to Ruzic, a studentat the College has not died of adrug overdose in at least the pasttwo years. The policy is neverthe-less a significant achievement.
âWeâve done all we can in thepolicy because itâs extended towhere it covers pretty mucheverything,â Ruzic said. âGoingto full amnesty from limitedamnesty certainly puts Williamand Mary on the forefront ofdrug policy.â
Dean Gilbert could not bereached for comment.
âIt has been, overall,an amazing and
life-changing experience for me.â
LIZETTE GESUDENDouglass College senior
âOtherwise studentswouldnât get the
medical help theyneed for fear of
being punished bythe university.â
RYAN RUZICCollege of William & Mary
Student Asseembly Vice President
of Engineering has greatstrengths,â Farris said. âThereare a lot of great things aboutthe School of Engineering. Alot of faculty members here aredoing extremely well at attract-ing federal research dollars,which is very good for our rep-utation and provides lots ofopportunities for our students.â
He said one of his goals, asdean, is to increase the num-ber of faculty and students atthe school.
School of Engineering seniorWerner Born said the expansionof the school presents possibili-ties and problems.
âThis is ver y exciting tohear, but there will be a lot oflogistical concerns studentswill have. Iâm excited to seewhat great faculty Dean Farriswill bring in,â said Born, chairof the Rutgers UniversityStudent Assembly.
The school will attract morefaculty members by creatingunique research opportunities,Farris said.
âWe are working with theexisting faculty to identify ourtechnical themes around whichwe can hire faculty,â he said.âThis gives potential recruits anopportunity to join a group offaculty that are doing very col-laborative work centeredaround some of the needs of the21st century.â
Born said further fosteringthe University as a think-tankand research haven wouldbenefit everyone.
Farris said the school wouldincrease enrollment by target-ing talented New Jersey stu-dents and recruiting out-of-stateand international students.
âI think there are great engi-neering students that are nowleaving the state to study engi-neering,â Farris said. âI think itwould be great for us to keepthem here at Rutgers.â
Born hopes an increase in thestudent population will lead to anincrease in the amount of coursesections offered.
âEngineering has a fairly stat-ic course schedule from fresh-man to senior year, and some-times those classes only offerone section and at times that real-ly inhibits students from beingable to take part in other thingsor explore courses outside of themajor,â Born said.
He said with the increasingpopulation of the school,adding more sections wouldenable students to get out andexperience other great thingsat the Univesity.
School of Engineering first-yearstudent Swayam Thacker said thestatic course schedule restrictedhis class selection process.
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layoffs across the Universitywhile addressing areas of con-cern to the AAUP-AFT,âFurmanski said.
Despite the perceived agreeableend to contract negotiations withthe faculty, University administra-tion is still in negotiations with theUnion of Rutgers Administrators.
âWe have had ongoing talkswith management over the sum-mer, and we have not come to anagreement. Weâve exchanged pro-posals but we are still quite a wayapart,â President of the URA-AFTLucye Millerand said.âManagement as we understand isasking our members to give backmore than they asked from the fac-ulty. Our members make an aver-age half of what the faculty makes.â
Members of the URA-AFT, whichrepresents 1,900 workers, handedaround 10,000 leaflets at the football
game last Sunday to raise awarenessto their contract negotiations.
âOther state bargaining unitshave come to agreements wheretheyâve revised the economic con-ditions of their contracts to savemanagement money. In exchange,
theyâve gotten other protections; inparticular, very strong, no layoffprotections,â Millerand said. âAndmanagement has not offered usthat kind of protection.â
People in the URA-AFT are stillbeing laid off and there are no
scheduled discussions. The man-agement did not negotiate withthem before they held back theirraises in June and they only notifiedthem, she said. CommunicationWorkers of America and theAmerican Federation of State,County and Municipal Employeesgave up part raises but their pensioncontributions were protected.
âWe have the problem thattheyâre not offering layoff protec-tions; theyâre asking more moneyback than they do of the faculty,âMillerand said. âWe need protec-tions of our pensions.â
The URA-AFT has workedunder the saying âdo more withlessâ for a long time. TheUniversity budget crisis has beengoing on for a while, and as staffmembers are laid off, those stillemployed have more work to do.
âWe have a lot of people fundedby grants in our unit. TheUniversity saves any money fromholding back those peopleâssalaries,â Millerand said. âWe donâtthink management is even factoringthat when they do calculations.â
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the summer, and wehave not come to an
agreement.â LUCYE MILLERAND
URA-AFT President
âFor the freshman yearthereâs a limit to the courses youcan take. I already took a lot ofAP classes so I didnât have manyoptions,â Thacker said.
Farris said the static courseschedule issue would beaddressed as the School ofEngineering grows and is able tooffer more course sections.
He hopes the school willattract new students by raisingmoney for scholarships anddeveloping research and educa-tion programs with humanitari-an aims.
âStudents that are coming tocollege today want to pursuecareers where they know theyare going to be making a differ-ence and helping people,âFarris said.
He said the thought of makinga difference and helping peopleencouraged him while workingon trucks in Texas and eventual-ly led him to become a professor.
âThe notion of being a facultymember and being involved inresearch and also being aroundstudents and young people all thetime was very appealing to me,âFarris said.
After he received his bache-lorâs degree in MechanicalEngineering at Rice University,Farris earned his masterâs degreeand doctorate in Theoretical andApplied Mechanics atNorthwestern University.
In his 23 years as a PurdueCollege of Engineering facultymember, Farris advised 22 engi-neers who completed doctoraldegrees in engineering, receivedhis schoolâs outstanding under-graduate teacher award in 2008and helped increase fundraisingfor the school from $1 million to$3 million annually.
After Farris became the headof aeronautics and astronauticsdepartment in 1998, undergradu-ate and graduate student enroll-ment more than doubled. Underhis leadership, the number ofwomen on faculty increased fromone to five.
In 2008 the departmentawarded more undergraduatedegrees to women than any of itspeer aerospace programs.
Born said generating interestin engineering for female highschool graduates is a dauntingbut important task.
âAlthough the population isnâthuge, the School of Engineeringhas two very active groups forwomen. The Society of WomenEngineers and Phi Sigma Rho,the Engineering Sorority,â hesaid. âIâm sure both of thosegroups would be thrilled to seeand assist in this development.â
On Friday from 3 to 5 p.m.,Farris will be at the EngineeringQuad on Busch campus for theconvocation welcoming new first-year students.
âIâve met a few students,âFarris said. âRutgers studentsare very energetic, bright andcome from great backgrounds.â
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Daniel Kurtzer will hold the S. Daniel Abraham Chair inMiddle East Policy Studies at Princeton UniversityâsWoodrow Wilson School of Public and InternationalAffairs from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. in the Multipurpose Roomof the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenuecampus. Ambassador Kurtzer served as the USAmbassador to Israel (2001-2005) and as the USAmbassador to Egypt (1997-2001). For more informa-tion, contact The Bildner Center for the Study of JewishLife at [email protected].
The Victoriaâs Secret Pink bus is coming to theUniversity! The bus will be parked at Morrell Street, nextto the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenuecampus. In addition to giveaways and items for sale fromthe Rutgers Pink collection, the University Dance Teamwill be at the event from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Come outdoors for a Tie-Dye frenzy to tie-dye yourfavorite shirt, fill your belly with fries and enjoy somemusic. Shirts to tie-dye will be provided. The eventbegins at 2 p.m. near the fountain on Livingston campus.Supplies are on a first-come-first-serve basis. Rain loca-tion is at Tillet Hall: Yorba Lounge on Livingston campus.
Like to sing? Think you know the words to all those oldiesand hit songs? Then come prove it in the Douglass CampusCenter at 8 p.m. and try to win fabulous prizes! Brought toyou by RUPA. Free snacks will also be provided.
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Suicide Prevention Day tomorrow will feature a theme onâSuicide Prevention in Different Culturesâ to raise globalawareness of suicide.
Someone commits suicide in the United States every 16minutes and every 40 seconds worldwide, according to theAmerican Association of Suicidology.
The latest year on record for suicide numbers is 2006,when 33,000 people committed suicide in the U.S., accordingto the AAS. Four thousand one hundred eighty nine werebetween the ages of 15 and 24.
âThe day represents a call for action and involvement bygovernments and organizations worldwide to contribute tosuicide awareness and prevention,â according to a pressrelease from the University of Medicine and Dentistry ofNew Jersey.
Donna Amundson, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker andmanager of UMDNJ-University Behavioral HealthCareâsTraumatic Loss Coalitions for Youth Program, will be avail-able until Sept. 12 to discuss suicide and other related issues.
Amundson will be available to discuss suicide preventionand intervention as well as coping strategies for those impact-ed following death by suicide, according to the release.
These subjects also will be addressed at the TLCâs upcom-ing 7th Annual Youth Suicide Prevention Conference, entitledâEthnocultural Variables in Youth Suicide: African American,Asian and Latino Perspectives.â
âThe conference continues the World Suicide PreventionDay theme of preventing suicide in different cultures and willbe presented in three regions of New Jersey on Nov. 16, 17and 18,â according to the release.
A meeting with Amundson can be scheduled throughZenaida Mendez at (973) 972-7273 or e-mail at [email protected].
â Sara Gretina
UMDNJ TAKES PART IN SUICIDE PREVENTION WEEK
10 Keep in mind: Today is the last day to add classes; donât getcaught without that prerequisite!
11Residence Life, RUPA, Busch Campus Dean and Dean ofStudents are co-sponsoring a campus-wide event between 6and 10 p.m. entitled Busch BâQue. There will be field daygames, a BBQ, a movie, âDrag Me to Hell,â shown on a 40-foot outdoor screen, a DJ, inflatable games and other funactivities/things to see.
Randal Pinkett is scheduled to speak in Room 103 of theAllison Road Classroom Building on Busch campus. As partof the Rutgers Alumni Leaders Conference and the RutgersExcellence in Alumni Leadership Awards, the address of thishigh-impact speaker and fellow alumnus will focus on engag-ing others and advancing your volunteer cause. His tips tosuccess in a volunteer environment will inspire leaders of alltypes to motivate involvement with true skill and infectiousenthusiasm that can be shared by all in a dynamic volunteergroup. A book signing and photo opportunity will be avail-able to all registered attendees. For information contactYvette R. Choma at [email protected].
experience from it ⌠Iâve alwayssaid work hard young so whenyouâre older, you can reap therewards and just relax,â saidCepeda, who has lived in her dis-trict since the fifth grade.
The other winners includeSchool of Arts and Sciences jun-iors Eddie Rodriguez and TomMcKeon, seniors Caitlin Ferrer,Leor Tal and Carmen Rao,Rutgers College seniorsMeredith Neely and MikeShanahan and Livingston Collegesenior Patrick Lee.
When Cepeda entered herfirst meeting, she said she felttaken aback due to her age, butthat feeling dissipated.
âWe actually had a reorganiza-tion meeting, and that was one ofthe topics that was brought up, us
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STUDENTS: Politicians
cite time management as key
continued from front
Animal Sciences profes-sor Dipak K. Sarkar wasrecently granted a $3.5 mil-lion Method to ExtendResearch in Time Awardfrom the National Institutesof Health.
With the award, Sarkarplans to continue hisresearch on the damagingeffects of alcohol on nerv-ous systems of unborn chil-dren, according to aUniversity Media Relationspress release.
âAlcohol consumptionduring pregnancy is a sig-nificant public health prob-lem and may result in awide range of adverse out-comes for the child,â Sarkarsaid in the release. âManyfetal alcohol syndromepatients have problems cop-ing with stress; they havelearning disabilities, infec-tions and increased suscep-tibility to diseases.â
The award will extendNIH support for Sarkarâsresearch grant for another10 years; his research isnow in its 13th year.
Sarkar, the director ofthe Universityâs EndocrineResearch Program, hasobtained five active grantsthat support the work of 16research assistants. Theseassistants consist of post-doctoral students, graduatestudents, undergraduatesand a senior scientist whohelp collaborate on Sarkarâsresearch projects.
The problems associatedwith fetal alcohol syndromestem from alcohol-induceddestruction of neurons inthe hypothalamus of thebrain. These neurons pro-duce the endorphin hor-mone and are especially vul-nerable during the earlydevelopment of the fetus.
Sarkar became interestedin alcohol research in 1990when he observed the neu-ron-killing effect of a smalldose of alcohol while workingon neuronal development.
His research has exem-plified that the seeminglyirreversible reduction in thenumber and function ofbeta-endorphin neuronsresults in a permanentimpairment of stress andimmune system functionsthroughout life. While thebody displays the ability torecover from damage or dis-ease, this does not appear tocome into play with the lossof beta-endorphin neurons,according to the release.
â Heather Brookhart
PROFESSOR TOEXAMINE ALCOHOL
DAMAGE WITH$3.5M GRANT
being college students,â Cepedasaid. âBut I think honestly, theyrespect us taking the initiative,but I canât really speak for them.â
Lydnel Myles, a 4th Ward,District 5 committeewoman,said the student politiciansimpact the community.
âThey are energetic, they arefiery, [and] they are just wonder-ful, and the residents just lovethem,â she said.
In her new position, Cepedasaid it may be difficult to balanceschool and work at times.
âThere are weekly meetings,so itâs basically like another [orga-nization],â Cepeda said. âItâs a lot,but time management is key.â
But juggling a busy sched-ule does not only apply to thestudent politicians.
âIt could also be said of some-one who has a career for 30 hoursof the week and children toraise,â Cepeda said.
School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Stacey Milliman, a
committeewoman for the 6thWard, District 3, said working onthe committee presents a newexperience she can learn from.
âItâs really great to be able tosee how the actual politiciansinteract with one another,âMilliman said.
She said the campaign was aworthwhile opportunity to getinvolved outside the University,although her constituents aremostly students.
âThe people I represent are vir-tually all students; there are veryfew non-students,â Milliman said.
She said while there are noassigned positions on the com-mittee, there are several sub-committees. Milliman workswith the city relations commit-tee, which aims on improvingthe relationship between thecommunity, the city and the University.
Both Cepeda and Milliman areunsure if they will run again aftertheir two-year terms expire.
Cepeda, who is majoring inbiology and education, is inter-ested in medicine whileMilliman plans to pursue a majorin urban planning.
âPotentially there are bigpolitical changes that are goingto happen, so I guess weâll justhave to see what happens,âMilliman said.
Cepeda and Milliman said theDemocrats for Change campaignis still going strong.
âNow we have a strong front,âCepeda said. âI know weâre stilltrying to go through the com-munity and help out a lot [and]do fundraisers.â
Milliman said the group isfocusing on Empower OurNeighborhoodsâ ward campaign.
âAs far as student issues andthe city goes, weâre trying to can-vass and attract as many peopleas possible,â she said.
Committee Chairman T. K.Shamy was unavailable for com-ment as of press time.
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M S E P T E M B E R 9 , 2 0 0 9U NIVERSIT Y 7
High dropout ratesplague nationâs colleges
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Four years ago, two of themost influential researchers inhigher education dove into ahuge pool of data hoping toanswer a bedeviling question:Why do so many students whostart college fail to graduate?
They report their findings in abook out today, and perhaps thebiggest is this: Students arenâtaiming high enough, settling forless selective schools they imag-ine will be easier, but where infact theyâre more likely to dropout before earning a degree.
In âCrossing the Finish Line,âWilliam Bowen and MichaelMcPherson, former presidentsof Princeton University andMacalester College, along withresearcher Matthew Chingos,chime in on what many expertsconsider American higher edu-cationâs greatest weakness: col-lege completion rates. By somemeasures, fewer than six in 10entering college students com-plete a bachelorâs degree,among the worst rates in thedeveloped world.
The latest findings may sur-prise those caught up in the well-publicized admissions frenzy athigh-end colleges who assume allstudents push for the most selec-tive school they can find. But theauthors focus on the phenome-non called âundermatchingâ âthe surprisingly large number ofwell-qualified high school seniors
with credentials to attend strongfour-year colleges, but who choseother options instead â lessselective schools, two-year col-leges, or no college at all.
They may have had their rea-sons, such as staying close tohome or lack of money âthough more selective schoolsarenât always pricier. But theauthors argue bigger factors areâinertia, lack of information,lack of forward planning for col-lege and lack of encourage-ment.â The data suggest low-income and minority students,and especially those whose par-ents donât complete college, areespecially susceptible.
For instance, examining 1999North Carolina high schoolgraduates who could haveattended the flagship Universityof North Carolina-Chapel Hill orNorth Carolina State â butinstead went to less selectiveschools â they conclude barelyone-third even applied to thestateâs leading universities.Most of the rest got in but wentelsewhere, or nowhere.
Those students who âunder-matchedâ may have figured theywould be in for an easier time;they did in fact get highergrades, but overall paid âa highprice,â taking longer to movethrough school and eventuallygraduating at a rate 15 pointslower than comparably preparedstudents who went to moreselective schools.
recent piece for TheIndependent: âThe US is theonly major industrialised[sic] country that does notprovide regular health careto all its citizens. Instead,they are required to providefor themselves â and 50million people canât affordthe insurance. As a result,
18,000 US citizens die every year needlessly,because they canât access the care they require.Thatâs equivalent to six 9/11s, every year, year onyear. Yet the Republicans have accused theDemocrats who are trying to stop all this death byextending healthcare of being âkillersâ â and theyhave successfully managed to put them on thedefensive. The Republicans want to defend theexisting system ⌠[b]ut they canât do so honestly:some 70 percent of Americans say it is âimmoralâ toretain a medical system that doesnât cover all citi-zens. So they have to invent lies to make any life-
saving extension of health caresound depraved.â
One of the most incessant ofthese lies is the rightâs assertionthat the implementation of a pub-lic option will negatively affectthe quality of care patientsreceive, but a recent Gallup analy-sis of historical data âfinds only aslight difference in howAmericans with Medicaid or
Medicare versus those with private insurance plansrate the quality of care they receive, and no differ-ence in how the two groups rate their coverage.âMany of the other falsehoods being repeated byopponents of a public option (e.g., that Obama andthe Democrats wants to set up âdeath panelsâ) areso transparently ridiculous that they should requireno response. Unfortunately, thanks in large part to awell-funded media campaign spawned by a numberof large private insurance companies, a formidableproportion of Americans believe such rubbish, forc-ing progressive Democrats to waste their time andenergy painstakingly clarifying that, in fact, they arenot in favor of indiscriminately killing the elderlyand the disabled.
This is a crucial juncture in our history, and ouronly options are capitulation or persistence. Weelected Obama and then Democratic majorities inCongress last November because they promisedus change. It is their duty to overcome the road-blocks to progress being erected by the GOP, andit is our paramount civic responsibility to holdthem to their promises and demand the reform ournation so desperately needs.
Josh Baker is a Rutgers College senior majoring insociology. He welcomes feedback [email protected]. His column, âZeitgeist,âruns on alternate Wednesdays. He is also a contribut-ing writer for the Johnsonville Press.
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S ince his inauguration inJanuary, PresidentBarack Obama has been
contending with a number ofcrucial issues that continue toaffect virtually all Americans.Among the most pressing ofthese is health care reform. It isnecessary to note here that,according to an ongoing Galluptrend poll, a sizeable majority â about 60 percent âof the public still sees the floundering economy asthe nationâs âmost important problem.â This figurehas dropped steadily from a peak of 86 percentsince the beginning of the year, while the number ofAmericans citing health care as their foremost con-cern has risen from 4 percent to 25 percent duringthe same time span. This trend is not at all surpris-ing: As more and more Americans lose their jobs âand, concurrently, their health insurance â thedemand for a publicly-funded alternative hasincreased. To be sure, the president has taken sev-eral steps in the right direction,bypassing Washingtonâs infernalpolitical bickering and taking hispartyâs case directly to the peopleand addressing their concerns ina series of town hall meetingsacross the country over thecourse of the summer. But hisactions, along with and those ofthe Democratic leadership in con-gress, have not as of yet gone farenough toward achieving the goal of universalhealth care.
Addressing the American Federation of Laborand Congress of Industrial Organizations duringthe organizationâs annual Labor Day picnic onMonday, Obama said, âI see reform whereAmericans and small businesses that are shut outof health insurance today will be able to purchasecoverage at a price they can afford ⌠Where theyâllbe able to shop and compare in a new health insur-ance exchange â a marketplace where competi-tion and choice will continue to hold down cost andhelp deliver them a better deal.â While the presi-dent has readily and repeatedly stressed the needfor an overhaul of how health care in the UnitedStates is operated, he seems reluctant to definitive-ly state his support for a public option, having beencontinually put on the defensive by the generallyoutrageous and untenable criticisms of such a planbeing made by the American right. SteveHildebrand, one of Obamaâs former campaignadvisers, stated recently that the president âneedsto be more bold in his leadership.â Like manyAmericans, Hildebrand is âfrustratedâ with the lackof assertiveness the administration has shown thusfar: âI gave up a lot to elect Democrats, and I expectthem to give it up for me.â
Thus far, I have not seen a more pragmaticassessment of the situation Americans face regard-ing health care than Johann Hariâs comments in a
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Bold action needed from Obama
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âThis is a crucial juncture in our history,
and our only options arecapitulation or
persistence.â
Yes, he canPresident Barack Obama has been stirring a lot of controversy since tak-
ing office. Heâs been called a socialist for his health care policies, and his stim-ulus package has raised concerns over inflation and big government spend-ing. But it is hard to believe that his speech to the students of America wouldbe another addition to his list of controversial things to do. Yesterday at noon,Obama addressed the youth of the nation in a back-to-school speech. Manyconservatives were worried that this speech would be used to push a parti-san political agenda. No political agendas were discussed with the students;Obama just shared experiences and advice about being responsible and incharge of your own education. Some schools chose to show the speech,while other opted against it. According to CNN, one school in Ohio decidedto show it to children in the third grade and up, but not to the younger chil-dren. Nine students also opted not to watch the speech in the school. This isbecause their parents felt that the speech would be too political.
It is ridiculous that there were parents who were bothered by Obamaâsspeech being given to their children. According to CNN, one mother went asfar as to say, âThinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just real-ly upsets me ⌠Iâm an American. They are Americans, and I donât feel thatâsOK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now.â Nomatter if you agree with his policies or his way of running the country or not,he is still the nationâs leader and he should be respected like a leader. This isespecially true because he was not trying to talk to the students about any-thing political. He was just trying to address the future leaders of the countryby inspiring and encouraging them to work hard and to stay in school.
It is a good thing that children in America have a president they canlook up to and aspire to be like. Obama gave a very charismatic speech,making him easy to listen to and for children to understand. A lot of thesekids need someone that they can look up to, and because the president didnot come from the typical background that most of his predecessors did,it makes him a little more relatable. It also shows the students that if theyset their standards high, work hard, are determined and ambitious theytoo can achieve their dreams.
It is a good thing that Obama decided to address the young students ofAmerica. They are told every day by teachers, parents and guardians towork hard and do well, but when someone in a position of power â like thepresident â is talking to you like he understands where you are comingfrom, it changes the way you hear things. Obama told the children, âThisisnât just important for your own life and your own future. What youârelearning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meetour greatest challenges in the future.â How any parent can be upset withthe leader of the nation believing in their children and encouraging themto reach for the top is a mystery. They should stop and listen to his wordsthemselves before they impose their own beliefs upon their children.
âThey are energetic, they are fiery, [and] they arejust wonderful, and the residents just love them.â
Lyndel Myles, a 4th Ward, District 5 committeewoman on how the student politicians impact the community
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Zeitgeist
JOSH BAKER
Itâs only a gameStudents and Scarlet Knights fans alike filled the new Rutgers football
stadium on Monday for the first game of the season. With high hopes ofa good first game shattered, many fans left at halftime, and the ones whodid stay watched the Knights lose to Cincinnati 47-15. This is an embar-rassing start to a season, especially one where the pressure was on to dowell because of the new stadium that the team is playing in. There werethose who argued that the stadium was a waste of money. The perform-ance of the team on Monday was not proving the non-believers wrong.
Although the final score of the game was embarrassing, it is not fairto judge the football team already solely on the one game. One gamedoes not make a season and one season does not make a program. It hasto be said, though, that the team does have some added pressure onthem this year, whether they realize it or not. They have a bigger stadi-um to fill and there is the possibility of the student body getting sick ofgoing to games just to see their team lose. There is also added pressureon head coach Greg Schiano because he defended the stadium expan-sion, and now his team has to prove themselves with a good season.
Although the team did lose, there were some successes of the game.The new stadium was packed and will be for the next three gamesbecause tickets are sold out. The sea of red was a sight to see, and thechants and screams of fans throughout the stadium showed the schoolspirit the University possesses. Sold out tickets, merchandize sales andnot an empty seat in the stadium is not anything to be embarrassedabout; these things will always bring revenue to the University. It just can-not be forgotten that to keep students interested and proud of their team,they have to do better than a score of 47-15. Although it should not spiralback down to what it used to be, where the stadium was half emptybecause no one would want to watch the team lose, it is important to keepstudents interested and showing support. If the team is doing well morealumni support will come to the University, which is needed.
The way it is right now, winning or losing may not matter as long as thegame is sold out â that way there is money being brought in from the pro-gram and to pay off the debts accrued from expanding the stadium. But thatattitude will not last for long. The football team better brush this bad game offtheir shoulders and try better next time. Winning isnât everything, but it doeshelp in keeping the student body and fans interested and supportive duringthe season. The school spirit will help in making sure those extra seats arefilled with students who are proud of their football team and their University.
World Trade Center site, butthey were abandoned; a newplan was created which includesfour towers, one of them calledFreedom Tower.
The Port Authority and LarrySilverstein, leaseholder andchief architect of the site, man-age this tower, now called OneWorld Trade Center, and theysaid that this tower would bebuilt by 2012. Itâs 2009 andnothing is built.
If you go into the WorldTrade Center site, you seethe tower in construction.News keeps coming out thatthe tower might be completeby 2017 â and the wholecomplex in 30 years âincluding factoring the aban-donment of two of the towersfor âretail stumps,â a transithub that keeps skyrocketing inprice tag and a memorial thatâsgeneric and may have to chargepeople just to go in because ofthe high cost of maintenance.New York Gov. David Patersonwants Silverstein out of the proj-ect due to his inability to build
the site and waste eight years oftaxpayer money on the mostsacred ground in America.
What does this result in? Anexample of how the elite canhave their way by shoving a planthat no one wants (A poll onMSNBC.com early this yearshowed that 90 percent of
Americans are against theFreedom Tower)? An example offear to the world (the base ofOne World Trade Center is a100-foot slob of concrete paststreet level)? A tower/complexthat has no meaning to the vic-tims of Sept. 11 but for the elites
who pushed for a plan thatdefines what is wrong with thisc o u n t r y ? There is another plan that isgrowing in popularity with boththe victims and American public,yet barely gets any recognitionby the media. Itâs called âTwinTowers IIâ and the plan is basi-
cally a 21st century version ofthe iconic Twin Towers(façade, lobbies, entrance),which are taller, structurallysound, have one story higherthan the original towers, anda price tag so low that it couldbe built in three years asopposed to 30 years. Whatmakes this plan superior tothe official plan is that it hastwo functions â office towersand a living, breathing memo-rial that is free of charge and
have significant meaning.Rebuilding the Twin Towerswould be restoring a symbol of peace and tranquility, makingAmericans proud seeing thegreatest towers back in thegreatest city in the world, andmost importantly a healing
wound to Sept. 11 victims and arestoration of a symbol not justof New York, but of America.What makes this plan moreinteresting is that a Universityalumnus is helping to designthis plan. Kenneth L. Gardner âwith help from the late HerbertBelton, one of the originaldesigners for the original TwinTowers â has a complete repli-ca of what the new Twin Towers,the surrounding buildings, andthe memorial will look like, andhe is willing to show the publichow superior this plan is archi-tecturally and emotionally to theSilverstein/Port Authority plan.More information is availableabout this plan atwww.twintowersalliance.com,www.twintowersII.com and w w w . w t c 2 0 1 1 . c o m . I am not affiliated with any ofthese organizations but I feelthat the community should seethis and decide whatâs right forthe WTC site.
Nelson Morales Jr. is a School ofArts and Sciences sophomore.
T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M S E P T E M B E R 9 , 2 0 0 9 9OP I N I O N S
Rebuilding Twin Towers restores symbol of peace to country
O ne of the worst days inAmerican historyoccurred eight years
ago on Sept. 11. Two planesstruck the World Trade Center,one plane hit the Pentagon andanother plane crashed inShanksville, Pa. Everyone hasthese images of this day stuck in their memories; it is impossible toforget. As we look at what hap-pened in eight years, OsamaBin Laden and Al Qaedabecame household names forterrorism, a war in Iraq stillrages on, and a country hasmoved on, with a wound nothealed. Yet there is one placethat is a constant reminder ofthe Sept. 11 attacks â theWorld Trade Center site. A few years ago, the PortAuthority and the LowerManhattan DevelopmentCorporation had a contest tofind a developer to rebuild the
NELSON MORALES JR.
Letter
âThe Port Authority and LarrySilverstein, leaseholder andchief architect of the site,
manage this tower, now calledOne World Trade Center, and
they said that this tower wouldbe built by 2012. â
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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) âToday is a 5 â If youârestuck at home tonight, donâtpitch a fit. You canât go outpartying every night. Getsome rest.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) âToday is a 7 â Ask friends fora referral. Theyâll lead you tothe perfect person for the jobyou have in mind.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)â Today is a 6 â If things getmessed up today, it wonât beall your fault. Just keep doingwhat youâve been doing.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)â Today is an 8 â Proceedwith what you had planned.The time is right to followthrough on decisions youâvealready made.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) âToday is a 5 â Youâre notstuck in the mud; you havenâtgiven up. Continue whatyouâve been doing and youâlleventually succeed.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) âToday is an 8 â Somebodyhas a very urgent messagefor you. Stick to your stud-ies: Youâll absorb the materi-al easily.
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T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M S E P T E M B E R 9 , 2 0 0 9 1 3S PORTS
BY SAM HELLMANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
A demoralized Greg Schianospoke to the media yesterday inhis weekly teleconference,breaking down what happenedMonday in the 47-15 loss toCincinnati. Because of the shortweek before Howard, Schianowill not have a weekly pressconference as the team goesimmediately into game modefor Saturday.
Schiano said that he and hisstaff have yet to make any deci-sions on depth chart changes forHoward, adding that changes, ifany, will be made later in the week.
âWeâve been watching thetapes since shortly after I left[Monday night,] but weâre try-ing to watch all three phases andweâll get together,â Schiano said.âWe probably wonât make anydepth chart changes here today.Itâll be later tonight and in themorning tomorrow.â
FOOTBALL CONFERENCE NOTEBOOK NO CHANGES MADE TO DEPTH CHART...YET
The Rutgers menâs basket-ball team added the final pieceof the 2009-10 roster yesterday
whenh e a d
coach Fred Hill Jr. announcedguard Muhamed Hasani signeda scholarship with the school.
Hasani, a native of Pristina,Kosovo, has played for the KBSigal Prishtina Junior teamsince 2005, where he won twoU-18 titles. In the summer of2007 he was named the bestplayer under the age of 21 by the Basketball Federationof Kosovo.
âWe feel very fortunate toadd a player of this caliber toour roster at such a latestage,â Hill said in a state-ment. âWe are confident thatMuhamed can be a key con-tributor. He is a solid playerwith experience, who handlesand shoots the ball well. Weare very excited to welcomehim into the program.â
The 6-foot-3 Hasani helpssoften the blow of losingCorey Chandler, who was dis-missed from the team for aviolation of athletic depart-ment policy this summer.
Hasani is also the fourthmember of the Scarlet Knights tohave played for a senior nationalteam. Sophomore guard MikeRosario (Puerto Rico), sopho-more forward GregoryEchenique (Venezuela) and jun-ior guard Mike Coburn(Jamaica) all got senior nationalteam call-ups this summer.
â Kyle Franko
KNIGHTS ADDGUARD HASANITO 2013 CLASS
MENâS BASKETBALL
JOHN PENA/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The Rutgers defense gave up 564 yards in total offense to theBearcats Monday in the Scarlet Knightsâ 47-15 loss.
The coaching staff is evaluat-ing every position for potentialchanges to the depth chart forHoward, meaning that signifi-cant changes could be made inthe next few days with the excep-tion of a few veterans like cor-nerback Devin McCourty anddefensive end George Johnson.
âGuys that are either new tothe position or not performing ata high level, they know thatthereâs a guy behind them thatwants their spot,â Schiano said.âWe evaluate it every day. I reallymean it â itâs at every position.â
AFTER GETTING A CHANCEto evaluate the tape on defense,Schiano concluded that therewasnât anything wrong with thescheme on defense, despite giv-ing up 564 yards and 45 points. Itwas just a matter of coming outsluggish and not executing.
âWe were a step behind andwe didnât play fundamentallyvery well,â Schiano said. âWhenI say fundamentally, it was obvi-ous we didnât tackle well.Although we were very physicalwe just missed tackles. But wedidnât execute technique with agreat deal of precision, and boilit down, whether it was a passdrop or a rush move or a line-backer fit on a run play, you addit up and it ends up not being agreat performance.â
RUTGERS HAS JUST THREEmore days to prepare for Howard,which can be an advantage and adisadvantage. The Knights have
less time to prepare and fatiguecould be more of an issue, but italso gives them a chance to rightthe sinking ship quickly.
âCoach is making sure we doeverything to get out bodiesready,â said senior defensiveback and team captain DevinMcCourty on a separate confer-ence call. âI think mentally it willbe good for the team to playagain and just play football.â
THE LOSS TO CINCINNATI iscomparable to last seasonâs 44-12 loss to UNC. Both cameearly in the year with veryhigh expectations and bothended in embarrassment.
Rutgers managed to over-come the loss to the TarHeelsand eventually make a bowlgame, but RU doesnât want toassume that will happen againthis season.
âI think Coach [Schiano] saidit perfectly when he said âdonâtthink everythingâs going to beOK because of the 1-5 start lastyear because that was the â08team and this is the â09 team,âMcCourty said.
ON THE INJURY FRONT,junior receiver Mason Robinsonwill be OK minus some sorenessand senior safety Zaire Kitchenwill be on a wait-and-see basisfor Howard.
âIt was a very physical game,âSchiano said. âWeâre going to bea sore football team today, but wehave to go do some things just toget on schedule a little bit.â
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âEach meet builds to the nextmeet and eventually to the cham-pionships,â he said. âWhere weare September 12 will benowhere near where we aregoing to be on October 31[which marks the beginning ofBig East Championships].â
The Knights will be in theBronx, N.Y. Sept. 12 to lay thefirst of the aforementioned build-ing blocks in the seasonâs foun-dation at the Fordham Fiascoand Follies.
The team that will take to theBronx has a totally dif ferentlook this year. With the loss ofperennial frontrunnersCheyenne Ogletree and AlisonCaruana, a slew of new faces âseven to be exact â will dawnthe scarlet and white to repre-sent the University.
One constant, though, isAsha Singh. The junior, who hada stellar freshman campaignbefore completing a slower, sick-ness-riddled sophomore season,will be called upon to lead theyoung team.
Being the longest tenuredKnight, she and Robinson expecta return to full form.
âI definitely increased mytraining this summer to tr yand get back into top shape. Idid a lot more mileage,â Singhsaid. âI took it easy on thespeed work so that I donât getburnt out.â
Singhâs training wonât get anyless intense since returning tothe Banks. Assistant Coach JanMerrill-Morin has implementedan extremely intense âperiodiza-tion trainingâ program for theentire squad.
The training program isdesigned to enable runners topeak at the right times â name-ly the respective season champi-onships. Moreover, it is craftedso that the runners remain intop race condition without get-ting injured or pushing too fartoo soon.
âWe work out at race pace, notanything faster, so that our bodyknows what itâs like to race, butdoesnât break down in practice,âSingh said.
The Knights are hoping thatthis training will allow them topost a solid finish in their sea-son opener and to begin sepa-rating themselves from the packfrom there.
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MARATHON: Knights
open season Saturday in Bronx
game went on and we could movethe ball, and we were getting intosome tackles and winning the airgame, I think just a little bit intothe match they really realized,âWe belong here, and, yes, weâregoing to win this match.ââ
Going forward, Crooks stillsees aspects of his teamâs gamethat he expects to improve. Hepoints to things like making lessself-inflicted turnovers and a needfor better relationships betweenthe forwards and midfielders.
Thereâs no denying Crooksâvisions of his team before the sea-son took a major step towardcoming to fruition on Sunday. Itâscertainly something both he andthe team are looking forward tobuilding on.
âI think the win gives the teammajor confidence,â said junior for-ward Ashley Jones who scored thego-ahead goal Sunday. âI wouldnâtsay we got off to a bad start, it waspretty good. But we just took our-selves to the next level. And I thinka win like that is just going to helpus continue to grow.â
The win over Penn State vault-ed the Knights back into thenational rankings. After the 1-1draw with Stony Brook knockedthem out of the top 25, RU nowstands at No. 17 in the NSCAArankings, while the Nittany Lionsdropped from No. 13 to No. 23.
CONFIDENCE: RU
now No. 17 in NCSAA polls
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Intensive training keys success for KnightsBY MELISSA FALICA
STAFF WRITER
Training for cross country is atime consuming, difficult andexhausting process that does not
come easyto any stu-
dent athlete. Take the Rutgers menâs cross
country team as an example.The Scarlet Knightsâ practice
consists of more than just run-ning and lasts for nearly twohours at the very least.
âEven though practice is muchshorter than many other prac-tices, youâre still very tiredbecause itâs condensed to an hourand 30 minutes,â junior KevinCronin said.
The Knights run up to twice aday, every day, adding up to around80 miles a week, a lot more thanwhat they ran back in high school.
âWith distance running ittakes time for your body toadjust,â said Rutgers menâs crosscountry head coach MikeMulqueen. âThese guys had torun three miles in high schooland had to run five miles whenthey got to college.â
Mulqueen can easily tell whenthe team has been up to par onpractices and when it has notbeen and trusts that his team willtrain as expected.
âA lot of it comes from theirown desire,â he said. âIâm too old;I canât even stay with them so Itry to follow them in the car.â
The key to being good at crosscountry, according to junior NickMiehe, is dedicating time to thesport 24/7, 365.
âIn the past, such as freshmanyear, I didnât do that,â Miehesaid. âLast year I changed thatand I started living and breath-
ing running, and this year Iâmeven more focused.â
Living and breathing crosscountry plus the extra task ofstudying for classes can take apretty big toll on the body.
âWhen youâre doing yourhomework, youâre kind of a littlebit dreary,â Cronin said.
But that has not stopped theteam from academic success, asthe Knights were named to theAll-Academic Track and FieldTeam for the second year in a row.
Mulqueen hopes that the teamwill be considerably better thanlast year and has a lot of faith inthe team and its older runners.
âAs you get older you getstronger, so this year we have alot of juniors so they should bebetter and stronger and able tohandle tough workouts easierthan they have in the past,âMulqueen said.
RU will need its strength as itfaces some tough competitionthis fall.
Miehe said that Regionals andthe Big East matches pose thebiggest challenge and hold themost significance for the team.
Besides practice, pre-gamewarm-ups and rituals have helpedlead to the teamâs success in thepast and RU hopes that they willcontinue to do so this year.
âWe do striders, which is basi-cally like 100-meter sprints, andthat gets our speed acclimated tothe beginning of the race and get-ting off fast and getting good posi-tioning in the race,â Cronin said.
The Knights believe that theirage, training and rituals will allcontribute to a very successfulseason this fall.
âWeâre an older team and I feelthat weâre going to do well,âMiehe said. âIâm excited.â
MENâS XC
ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Senior keeper Erin Guthrie (1) blanked both Towson and Penn State this weekend to help the Knights improveto 4-0-1 on the season, recording her 35th career shutout in the process, a new Rutgers record.
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Gameâs first drive illustrates running is keyBY STEVEN MILLER
CORRESPONDENT
It was calculated and it wasmethodical.
It featured dives, draws, end-arounds, quarterback sneaks
a n df o u r t h
down conversions.But most importantly, the
Rutgers football teamâs first drivewas successful.
After the Scarlet Knightsallowed Cincinnati to march 81yards in less than three minutesto start Mondayâs 47-15 debacle,the offense delivered the per-fect remedy.
The Knights controlled theball on a 20-play drive that endedwith sophomore tailback JoeMartinek scampering towardsthe new student section in thesouth endzone.
Sixteen rushes and four pass-es covered 78 yards during thedrive that lasted over 10 minutes.
âOur offense was confidentbecause it was a long, longdrive,â Martinek said. âWe kept ittogether â things were rollingand we felt pretty confident aboutthat â but we knew that wecouldnât just dwell on that onedrive. We had to get a couplemore of those.â
But the next touchdown drivedidnât come until the fourthquarter, and that one would lookcompletely different â for rea-sons other than who lined upunder center.
The box score says that RUattempted 33 rushes and 37 passes.
In reality, after rearrangingthe numbers with sacks andscrambles, the Knights called 27designed run plays and 43 passes.
Subtract the opening driveand that is 11 rushes to 39 passesâ not a healthy mix, even if itwas the 2008 offense with MikeTeel and Kenny Britt.
Martinek, who carried the ball10 times on the first touchdowndrive, rushed five times over theremaining three quarters.
Sophomore Jourdan Brooksran the ball once in the secondquarter, but did not see the
FOOTBALL
JOHN PENA/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
After getting 10 touches on the Rutgers football teamâs first drive, sophomore running back Joe Martinek got just five more carries over thecourse of the game and finished with 54 yards and a touchdown in the Knightsâ 47-15 loss Monday to Cincinnati.
Donât take that as me callingout starting quarterback DomNatale for a bad performance,because a lot of what went wrongoffensively wasnât his fault. Twoof the three interceptions wereon tipped balls, and his 20-play,10:40 drive on the first posses-sion was nothing short ofimpressive. The guy was 8-for-12for 108 yards.
âWe just didnât execute,âNatale said after the game. âIdidnât execute and I put that allon myself.â
Given that, Savage had todeal with the same conditions asNatale â minus the fact that henever had the ball with the gamestill close â and just played bet-ter. He was 15-for-23 for 135yards and a touchdown and didnot throw an interception.
Savage has much more of anupside than Natale as well, giventhat Natale has, at best, 12 moregames in a Rutgers uniformwhereas Savage has four full sea-sons to get better.
âI didnât ask any questions. Ijust closed my eyes and went
FUTURE: Sanu sets
record Monday with 10 catches
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JOHN PENA/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Wide receiver Mohamed Sanu had 101 yards on 10 catches Mondayagainst Cincinnati, setting a new record for receptions by a truefreshman in a game under head coach Greg Schiano.
ball again until the final driveof the game.
âI think when you get behindin a game substantially the bestchance to win the game is to getinto the two-minute offense andsee if you can do it,â head coachGreg Schiano said. âYou have togive it a shot and thatâs what wedid today. I felt that we werebehind enough that we would runout of time.â
The Knights trailed, but it wasa product of costly interceptionsas much as poor defense.
On the opening drive,Schiano nursed first-time start-ing quarterback, senior DomNatale, relying on the rungame to move the chains.Twice, on third downs withmore than six yards to go, RU
handed the ball of f and wasrewarded with first downs.
Two three-and-outs and twointerceptions later, Rutgersâ holecontinued to increase.
The second half and thedebut of freshman quarterbackTom Savage forced RU tothrow the ball as much for thesake of Savageâs experience asto try to outshoot the relent-less Bearcat of fense.
âItâs not too frustratingbecause they gave me some car-ries and they gave me some passplays,â Martinek said of thediminished rushing attack. âAnyway to help the team and any wayto try to score and get back in thegame, Iâm up for any of it.â
But if the Knights are torebound from the embarrassing
home loss, the running backshave to figure more prominentlyinto the offense.
Not just Martinek, but Brooksas well.
After competing for the start-ing spot all of camp, Martinekhad five times the carries thatBrooks had, although the lopsid-edness was not by design.
âI talked to Jourdan Brooksright after the game because thatwas not how I wanted it to go,âSchiano said. âOn the first drive,we ran the ball a lot ⌠So thenJourdan goes in the next seriesbecause we want Jourdan to getcarries and keep them both fresh,but that series goes differently,and then we get behind and therunning game isnât such a bigpart of what weâre doing.â
Brooks, a big-play threat whowas last seen at Rutgers Stadiumone dreadlock short after a 62-yard run, needed to see the ballmore than just once during mean-ingful time.
The backfield duo were limit-ed in their ability to contributewhile too much was heaped onNatale and Savage â whoshould only be expected to limittheir mistakes in a run-dominat-ed attack.
âI just keep preparing andkeep working hard, and I knowJourdan is doing the samething,â Martinek said.âAnything that the coaches putin front of us, weâre confident ineach other and our own abilitiesthat we can contribute.â
Now all they need is the chance.
out there,â Savage said. âI was a little nervous going out therethe first time with the crowd noise and everything âŚIt was awesome going out thereand I definitely got my feet wet.â
But donât glorify the kid fromCardinal OâHara (Springfield,Pa.) just yet. He made mistakeson the field just like Natale andsenior Jabu Lovelace did.Savage held the ball too longand got sacked three times,including an intentional ground-ing call in the end zone result-ing in a safety.
But as Savage gets used to thespeed of the college game, themistakes will be minimized andhis talents will be maximized.
âI think I have a lot to learn soI have to get out there and keepworking,â Savage said. âI think Ineed to improve on just gettingthe ball out quicker.â
Part of Savageâs success canbe attributed to the immediateemergence of Sanu as animpact player. It took the 6-foot-2 receiver just over threequarters of his first game tocement his place in the Rutgersrecord books.
His 10 catches against theBearcats mark the most catchesas a true freshman in a single
game under Schiano as he hauledin 101 yards on the day.
âIâm just happy to have anopportunity to be here,â Sanusaid. â[The second half] was justme trying to get open and Tomjust making the play ⌠We haveto make sure we look at a lot offilm, know the defense weâregoing against and be ready toplay another game.â
Sanu has already emerged asthe most dynamic offensiveweapon for Rutgers. His sizemakes him a much easier targetto find downfield than the 5-foot-8Tim Brown, who continuallyseemed to be just an inch shortMonday for every pass thrownhis way.
âI think heâs one of the bestreceivers out there,â Savage saidof the guy he completed seven ofhis 15 passes to. âI just have touse [Sanu as a weapon down theroad] and keep doing what I haveto do.â
The bottom line: No. 7 to No. 6is a combination fans need to getused to quickly, because thefuture is now, when Savage andSanu take the field Saturdayagainst Howard.
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BY CHRIS MELCHIORRECORRESPONDENT
Itâs not that the Rutgers womenâs soccerteam was off to a bad start when the ScarletKnights came into last weekend with a 2-0-1record, but with so many new faces trying to
mesh with a core ofreturning players, RU
understandably came into this season as awork in progress .
That was never more evident than in theKnights 1-1 draw Aug. 30 with Stony Brook.
But even after the tie with the Seawolves,a remarkable calmness surrounded the team.
The Knights understood that, despitemixed results, they were close.
They were close to becoming the top-10team they strived to be and closer to realiz-ing the enormous talent level that they wereundoubtedly fielding.
And then came Fridayâs 1-0 win overTowson. The match â won on senior mid-fielder Gina DeMaioâs late penalty kick â sawthe Knights finally show some of the sparkthat carried them to a Sweet 16 last year.
So when RU walked off the pitch in StateCollege, Pa., Sunday with a 1-0 win over No.13 Penn State, the Knights werenât the leastbit surprised.
Ask Rutgers head coach Glenn Crooks,and heâll tell you he merely saw what he hadbeen expecting to see all season.
âEvery aspect of the game was better than atany other point in the season so far,â Crooks said.âSo Iâm just hoping the way we played becomesa habit because, not only did we play with greateffort, but we played great soccer as well.â
Crooks will tell you a major reason theKnights has been so successful against suchhigh-caliber opponents is because they wereconfident they belonged on the same field asthe No. 13-ranked team in the country.
Rutgers assistant coach Karina LeBlanccalls it âconfidence without cockiness.â Itâs
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Confidence without cockiness
ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Junior forward Ashley Jones kicked home the game-winning goal in the waning minutes of regulation to lift the Scarlet Knights to a 1-0victory over Penn State on Sunday, vaulting Rutgers back into the national rankings after completing a perfect weekend.
WOMENâS SOCCER
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UpcomingXC seasonmarathon,not sprint
BY JOSH SPIELMANSTAFF WRITER
The cross country and trackand field season is a marathon.Combined, the athletes who partic-
ipate inthese sports
compete for a total of 10 months, byfar the longest NCAA Division Iathletic season.
So, itâs safe to say the Rutgerswomenâs cross countr y andtrack and field team will be pac-ing itself.
After a short break, the ScarletKnights hit the ground runningexactly where they left off, buildingupon recent individual and teamsuccesses to climb the Big East,ECAC and national standings.
Rutgers cross country headcoach James Robinson believesthat each meet serves a purpose inthe teamâs overall goals.
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Savage, Sanu display glimpse of future
DAN BRACAGLIA/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Despite getting sacked three times, heralded freshman quarterback Tom Savage showed why he is the futureof the Rutgers football team in completing 15 of 23 passes for 135 yards and a touchdown.
I f you follow the Rutgers footballteamâs one-game season men-tality, then the Rutgers football
team just had its worst, most demor-alizing season under Greg Schianoâ given the expectations.
But in every bad season âexcept for maybe the 2008Detroit Lions â thereâs still abright spot, a âwait-till-next-yearâmoment or a player fans can lookto for inspiration, and the ScarletKnights had that.
They had two, in fact. Throughout training camp we
heard and saw that true freshmenTom Savage and Mohamed Sanuhad great potential, but it wasshocking just how quickly thatpotential evolved into college-level talent Monday in the 47-15loss to Cincinnati.
After seeing what Savage coulddo against what is probably the mostconfusing defensive scheme in theBig East, one thing is clear: Savageshould be the Knightsâ quarterback.
Right now.
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SAM HELLMAN
HellâsKitchen
WOMENâS XC
Surging Scarlet Knights riding wave of success after outdueling then-No. 13 Penn State in Happy Valley
the feeling the team has of not wanting to win,but expecting to win every match they play.
The Knights point to that attitude as a big reason for last yearsâ success, and
it was cer tainly evident Sunday in Penn State.
âFrom the opening kickoff, you could tellwe were playing with a great deal of confi-
dence,â Crooks said. âI think initially we mightnot have been certain deep down, but as the
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