sonal influenza A and H1N1,she said.

“I feel so strongly about itbecause we know the flu spreadsquickly and easily in aggregatedareas, [like] a college campus,”Kozlowski said. “One of thethings I say to students is theeasiest thing I can do for you is toadvise you to take that flu shotbecause it can make a differencewith your health.”

Students may also make anappointment to receive the vac-cination at any of the healthcenters, she said.

“What you try to do is getpeople to get the vaccine asearly as possible before theweather gets worse,” said

Francesca Maresca, a coordi-nator for Health Outreach,Promotion and Education.“Each year we see flu peak atdifferent times. For instance,this year we don’t know whenwe’ll see a peak of actual flu.”

While many students feelthe onset of a cold, there aredifferent circumstances for get-ting the flu, she said.

“Getting the flu is like gettinghit by a truck,” Maresca said.

One of the biggest differ-ences between the flu and thecold are symptoms such as afever over 101 degrees, bodyaches and exhaustion, she said.

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BY DEVIN SIKORSKIASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

As New Jersey prepares foranother set of budget cuts, theSchool of Arts and Sciences istaking an initiative to generatemore revenue.

Robin Davis, executive vicedean of the School of Arts andSciences, created a new revenue-generating program that looks tobring in a different strata of stu-dents into the School of Arts andSciences, like graduate students,which would in turn create new rev-enue for the University.

“Essentially, you would havestudents coming in [to theSchool of Arts and Sciences] thatyou wouldn’t normally be educat-ing, and those students wouldbring in tuition for the programthat they’d be participating in,”she said.

Davis said the idea for the rev-enue-generating program camesoon after she entered the dean’soffice and was confronted withthe unique and intelligent ideas ofthe faculty in the School of Artsand Sciences.

“It is a good idea to see if we canencourage the faculty to pursuesome of their creative talentsbeyond the undergraduate class-room and put together some entre-preneurial efforts that bring inadditional revenue streams to theUniversity,” she said. “So that’swhat the program is about.”

University President Richard L.McCormick agreed with Davis’idea for the program, saying it isgood to look at revenue-generatingenterprises with the huge budgetcuts the University is expecting inthe future, she said.

Police arrested 18-year-old DarrenFordham as one of two suspects respon-sible for a drive-by shooting Saturdaymorning that left two teenage girlswounded in New Brunswick.

Authorities charged the SouthBrunswick resident with attemptedmurder and possession of a handgun,police said in an article on mycentral-jersey.com. William Brandon, 18, ofFranklin is already in custody onthese counts.

Police arrived at a Wright Place resi-dence 1 a.m. on Saturday to find twofemale Franklin residents, ages 17 and19, shot while sitting on the stoop, NewBrunswick Police Department Lt. J.T.Miller said in the article.

The shots were fired from a car, strik-ing one victim in the torso and the otheron the shoulder.

Both girls were taken to RobertWood Johnson University Hospital inNew Brunswick and were treated forlife-threatening injuries, according tothe article.

Police said the drive-by was not relat-ed to the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-oldNew Brunswick high school student,which happened at 3 a.m. the same day.

Brandon was held yesterday at theMiddlesex County Adult CorrectionCenter in North Brunswick in lieu of$250,000 bail with no 10-percent cash option.

— Kristine Rosette Enerio

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Health centers to offer flu shotsBY REENA DIAMANTE

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Summer is officially over,but the cold and flu season isjust beginning.

Flu vaccines will be avail-able through Health Servicesat clinics in University studentcenters Monday Oct. 4through Nov. 18, according tothe Health Services website.

The new influenza vaccina-tions, which the Universityreceived from the Centers forDisease Control last month,will be available for $15, saidDorothy Kozlowski, assistantdirector of Health Services.The vaccine prevents both sea-

Alumnus takes look back at state’s Prohibition eraBY MAXWELL BARNA

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Writer and bookstore owner Steven Hart visited theUniversity earlier this week to discuss two of NewJersey’s most infamous crime bosses — formerAtlantic City Treasurer Enoch Lewis “Nucky” Johnsonand former Mayor of Jersey City Frank Hague.

The Graduate Students Association invited Hart, aUniversity alumnus, to speak at the Graduate StudentLounge on the College Avenue campus.

While the era of Prohibition was perhaps one ofNew Jersey’s most socially and culturally colorful timeperiods, it was also recorded as one of the state’s mostcorrupt, Hart said.

“New Jersey played a role in undermining prohibi-tion in every possible way,” he said. “Prohibition is justa fascinating period to me.”

Throughout his presentation, Hart made commentsabout the weak political infrastructure of New Jerseyduring this time, drawing a parallel between the politi-cal officials and police officers during the Prohibitionera to common criminals.

“In the early part of the 20th century, police wereeven scarier than criminals in Jersey City,” Hart said.“Prohibition led to unprecedented levels of corruptionin just about every level of law enforcement.”

Because of this mentality, criminals were portrayedas heroes as opposed to murderous bootleggers, gang-sters, and thugs, he said.

Writer and bookstore owner Steve Hart discusses the effect of the Prohibition era in New Jersey,specifically Atlantic City, Monday at the Graduate Student Lounge on the College Avenue campus.

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University to host children’s writers conferenceBY ANKITA PANDACONTRIBUTING WRITER

Aspiring children’s book writ-ers and illustrators next monthmay be in luck.

The Rutgers UniversityCouncil on Children’s Literatureis holding its annual One-on-One Plus Conference forauthors and illustrators whowant to get into the children’sbook writing business.

The conference, which will beheld in Busch Campus Center onOct. 16, allows writers to talk inperson with established editorsand agents in the field.

“We pioneered the concept ofone-on-one, which means that amentee is paired with a recog-nized professional in the field,”said Vivian Grey, council chair.

Grey, who founded the con-ference in 1969 with the help offormer University PresidentMason W. Gross, said she always

In exchange for free rent, 55-year-old Jeffrey Sich, aGeorge Washington University associate professor, willlive on the first floor of a sophomore residence hallcome spring.

The living arrangement is a practice borrowed fromearly academia that has recently grown in popularity,particularly at large urban universities striving toward amore personal, small-campus environment, according toan article in The Washington Post.

“It was met with shock: ‘You are going to dowhat?’” Sich said in the article. “But it’s a great con-versation starter. … And it’s been done before —Rodney Dangerfield.”

Professors who agree to live in residence halls mustattend floor meetings, answer questions, put up withstrange noises and host small gatherings in their room,which is typically larger than students’ quarters, accord-ing to the article.

GWU opened a hall this fall that houses about 290undergraduate students as well as two professors andtheir two young children.

“It’s very casual. There’s no class attached to it. Yousolely talk about your interests,” said Patrick Eronini, aGeorgetown University junior, which has six facultymembers living on campus. “At the very least, studentsare going for the free food.”

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MIDDLE-AGED GWU PROFESSOR TO LIVE IN RESIDENCE HALL

dreamt of a conference thatwould reach out to children’sbook writers everywhere.

“At that time, there wasn’t real-ly anything in the U.S. like this, soI brought this up,” said Grey, whois also a writer and teacher.

Entry into the conference iscompetitive, Grey said. Writershave to submit a manuscript oftheir work to the RUCCL, whichjudges the work based on its pub-lishable quality.

“We’re looking for the crèmede-la-crème,” said Brian Schatell,former co-chair of the conference.

More than 250 people submittheir finest work for the council tojudge, but only 70 are selected,said Schatell, who writes andillustrates children’s books.

“We want three pages of thebest stuff you’ve got,” Schatellsaid. “Illustrators can send inart samples.”

Writers from all age groupssubmit their work to the council,

from college students to 70-year-old grandmothers, Schatell said.Anyone with a creative mind iswelcome to participate.

“What we hope to achieve is… an environment where goodwriting will be recognized,”Grey said.

The conference is organizedinto three main sections — theone-on-one session, panel discus-sions and the five-on-five session,where five mentors and five writ-ers spend an hour discussingpublication and submission, saidEric Luper, a University alumnusand former participant.

During the one-on-one ses-sion, a participant and editorspend 45 minutes to an hour dis-cussing the participant’s writingsamples. The editor provides theparticipant literary feedback andillustrators are paired with artdirectors, Luper said.

Luper, who is also a youngadult writer, said the conference

helped him grow in more waysthan he imagined.

“I had been writing for fouryears before this conference, butI don’t think I was ready beforethis conference,” Luper said.

The people Luper met at theconference provided him withvaluable advice that he would oth-erwise have not heard, he said.

Luper said his favorite part ofthe conference was the individu-alized attention.

“I liked hearing from editorsand agents … who [discussed]what they liked and what [I]should improve on,” Luper said.

Pam Swallow, a council mem-ber, said in her 20-plus years withthe council, she has seen the con-ference grow, change andbecome more exciting than itused to be.

“It [has] gotten such a reputa-tion across the nation that editorsand agents are very eager toattend now because they feel that

there’s quite a bit of rich talentthere,” said Swallow, who was aformer mentee and mentor.

Swallow said an essential partof the conference is networking.

“[We] take our menteesaround and introduce them to theappropriate editors and agentsthat would be best for them,”Swallow said.

Writers and illustratorswhose works are publishable bythe end of the conference mayfind that an agent is willing torepresent them, said Swallow,who was represented by thesame agency as Kurt Vonnegutand Paula Danziger.

Grey, Schatell, Luper andSwallow all agreed that one ben-efit of the conference is thelong-term relationships it pro-vides for writers. Writers havethe opportunity to meet otherwriters to connect with and whomay ultimately help them honetheir skills.

the School of Arts and Sciences,the new initiative would also ben-efit undergraduate students aswell, Davis said.

“It really showcases theresearch activities of the faculty,”she said. “There also may be newopportunities for them to, forexample, get some way ofenrolling in thesecourses as well.”

The School ofArts andSciences dean’soffice would nottell their facultymembers what todo but ratherhave their ideasflourish intopotentially suc-cessful courses,Davis said.

“The dean’s office is saying,‘We have this opportunity for youthat we can fund for two years …you would not only be bringingrevenue into the University dur-ing a very difficult budgetarytime, [but it] will also give newopportunities for students foradvanced degrees,’” she said.

A good example of the types ofcourses this new program wouldoffer is the Master of Science inMathematics Degree for

Mathematical Finance, whichproved successful, Davis said.

This degree program inte-grates theoretical foundations withpractical applications for quantita-tive finance and aims to preparegraduate students for rewardingcareers in investment banks,hedge funds and more, according

to its website. “So you can

graduate with yourundergraduatedegree and say,‘Gee, I’m reallygood at math, but Idon’t know exactlyhow I want toapply it. But what ifI took this mathfinance course andthat was my entreeticket to a job in

Wall Street?’” she said. A number of graduate stu-

dents are already taking thatcourse, Davis said.

Davis also referenced the gradu-ate program Cultural Heritage andPreservation studies as anothergood example of the types of cours-es that would be offered in the newrevenue-generating program.

CHAPS is a program that pro-vides an opportunity to study her-itage preservation issues within

local, national and global contextsand is designed for students whowish to study cultural heritageissues as an academic subject,according to their website.

“So these could be people who gointo museums and become heads ofmuseums. They are people who areinterested in preserving houses andstructures in cities,” Davis said. “Sothere are a number of concepts inwhich we have very strong faculty.”

The new program would beimplemented in January, adding heroffice hopes to have five courses inthe program offered by the upcom-ing spring semester, Davis said.

“I think it’s a win-win-win,” shesaid. “It would be for the University,it would be for the faculty, and itwould be for the students whowould have the opportunity to enrollin newly developed programs.”

Davis, in an effort to explainher reasoning for the program,said there are two options whenfacing a budgetary crisis like thecurrent and future situation NewJersey is dealing with.

“What you can do is just feel asthough you don’t have any con-trol,” she said. “On the otherhand, you can take the reigns andreally step up to the plate andwork harder to try to make ourUniversity even better.”

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The popular mentality thatgovernment workers and politi-cians were no better than crookswas not particularly beneficial tothe development of a healthypublic relationship between thepeople and these governmentsects, Hart said. But it did servethe interest of crime bosses andcorrupt politicians throughoutthe state.

“The contempt for law thatprohibition created turned gang-sters into stars,” he said.

Although he made no ef fortto make Hague and Nucky looklike saints, Hart pointed outthat these two men, for onereason or another, wereambiguously moral.

Aside from being uncharacter-istically moral and sociallyupright, he also noted these menwere all about money and wereviable money making machines.

“One of the fascinating thingsabout these political bosses wasthat they were very moral fig-ures,” Hart said. “If you were anIrish-American family just off theboat, somebody from the [politi-cal] machine would be rightthere to see if there was anythingyou needed.”

One of the other major top-ics discussed during the pres-entation was the process bywhich New Jersey becamesuch a large haven for alcohol

d u r i n gProhibition.

In thefirst three orfour years ofProhibitionin NewJersey, lawenforcementon the state’sshores wasvirtually non-- e x i s t e n t ,Hart said.

But Hartalso explained that this lapse inlaw enforcement was brief.

“New Jersey’s coastline wasideal for rum-running,” he said.“[But] by the mid 1920’s, thecoast guard’s defense was beefedup. They got faster ships andstarted shooting.”

Jacob Kafka, University alum-nus and life-long Jersey City resi-dent, enjoyed the presentation.

“I found it interesting,”Kafka said. “I’ve read a little bitabout Hague, and it was good tohear someone who’s obviouslywell informed and well read onthe subject.”

David De Bevoise, aUniversity professor in theItalian Department, shared simi-lar sentiments and found thepresentation fascinating.

“I just came in here to pre-pare my class and started listen-ing to him,” Bevoise said. “Itwas very interesting.”

Alice Terry, vice president ofthe GSA, was enthusiastic aboutHart’s presentation.

“I read his book, ‘The LastThree Miles: Politics, Murder,and the Construction ofAmerica’s First Superhighway.’ Ithought he was a great writer,”Terry said. “He’s tremendouslytalented. I’m very impressedwith [Hart] so I decided to askhim to talk.”

Aside from his first book,Hart has been researching forand writing his next booksince 2004, documenting NewJersey history during the eraof Prohibition.

ALUMNUS: Hart has

worked on book since 2004

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“The contemptfor law that Prohibition created turned gangsters into stars.”

STEVEN HARTUniversity Alumnus

“We were awarded from thepresident’s office $750,000 over aperiod of three years to puttogether a mechanism of seedgrants for faculty who apply forthem,” she said. “What they willdo is put together an applicationprocess to the deans office andthey’ll spell out the kinds of pro-grams, projects or courses [theywish to pursue].”

Davis said her office e-mailedthe faculty within the School ofArts and Sciences to notify themthe program was now available,telling the faculty they couldreceive a $75,000 grant over twoyears to pursue their idea.

“We’ll review the programand if that faculty member isawarded the grant, we’ll review itagain in a couple of years,” shesaid. “[It is] just to make surethat it is something that is actual-ly revenue generating and in thelong run, self supporting.”

Although the program isaimed at bringing in graduatestudents and people from theNew Brunswick community into

REVENUE: Faculty can

receive $75K grant for ideas

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“There is a number of concepts

in which we havevery strong faculty.”

ROBIN DAVISSchool of Arts and Sciences

Executive Vice Dean

still many obstacles theUniversity is facing.

A major setback theUniversity faced was the half-mil-lion dollar budget cut, which can-not be made up in a bus contractof 10 years, he said.

This is the reason the L routewas eliminatedbecause the costof $600,000 tokeep the route inuse proved toomuch, Molenaarsaid.

“The L is reallymore of a historicremnant from the’80s. It came tofruition whenthere was noRoute 18,” he said.“If I started fromscratch, I would not go throughHighland Park.”

Another solution to solvetransportation problems was tolimit the amount of bus use afterclasses ended and during theweekend, Molenaar said. This ledto the creation of the Weekend 1and 2 buses.

“Both weekend busesmakes it so that you don’t haveto transfer buses,” he said.“Weekend 1 travels to all cam-puses in a clockwise positionas opposed to Weekend 2’scounterclockwise route.”

Commuters at the meetingalso expressedconcern with theamount of com-muter permitsgiven out.Molenaar said aratio is used tosell the com-muter permits to avoid such a thing.

“All com-muters are neverhere at the sametime, so more per-

mits can be sold,” he said.The concern came after a

mass e-mail was sent out to all1,700 commuters notifyingadditional lots were added onSept. 7, 14 and 18. Within in anhour after the message was dis-persed via Twitter andFacebook, the lots were filled

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Molenaar talks transportation with councilBY GISELLA GUTIERREZ

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With many University stu-dents still frustrated with thecancellation of the L bus route,the School of Environmentaland Biological Sciences councilmet last night to address issueswith campus transportation atthe University.

The SEBS council met withDirector of TransportationServices Jack Molenaar in theCook Campus Center to voiceits concern over the eliminationof bus routes, ticket changes,new construction and parkinglot control.

“The EE bus is crowded andoften times piggybacks behind eachother,” said Zaid Abuhouranm,SEBS council president.

Council Vice President NateGirer said because of higherenrollment, he finds it impossibleto get on the A-bus.

Molenaar listened to theconcerns of the council andsaid his priority is to have ef fi-cient inter-campus transporta-tion for students, but there are

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The annual FallResearch Mixer willtake place from 5 to 7p.m. in the

Multipurpose Room of the CookCampus Center. This event willgive students the opportunity tomeet with faculty and discusspossible research projects.Whether looking for paidresearch assistant positions,research projects or senior hon-ors research opportunities nextsemester or in the summer, thisevent can help students of multi-ple needs. Attendees will have anopportunity to hear facultydescribe their projects and meetindividually with them. Lightrefreshments will be provided.Those who plan on attending,please reply to Joan Jones by Oct.7 at joanba@echo.rutgers.edu.

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OCTOBERA “ResponsibleDrinking HappyHour” event will takeplace from 4 to 7 p.m.

in the Cook Café in the CookCampus Center. “ResponsibleDrinking Happy Hour” was estab-lished to unite the community ina social, relaxing and familiaratmosphere while emphasizingthe importance of responsibledrinking. They are held on thefirst Friday of every month dur-ing the semester. Come meet oldfriends, colleagues, staff or makenew friends. Free food, musicand soda will be served.

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“If you come in with the same excuse

five times in a row,we’ll know because

the computer recordwill pull it up.”

JACK MOLENAARDirector of Transportation Services

SEBS/COOK

Council

up and created a hectic parkingsituation, Molenaar said.

Keeping to the subject of tick-ets, Molenaar said there was anew appeals system, which isnow completely managed online.

Through this eco-friendlyapproach, ticket appeals are nowonly accepted online. As a result,an influx of requests was filedsince the change, he said.

While this method makes thestaff grow weary of the newchange, it is also useful becausestudents cannot give the sameexcuse over again, Molenaar said.

“If you come in with the sameexcuse five times in a row, we’llknow because the computer recordwill pull it up immediately,” he said.

Despite the alterations,Molenaar said there have onlybeen three weeks in the schoolyear so far, and there is still muchto be worked on.

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The U.S. Government AccountabilityOffice released a report yesterday showingthat despite rising wages for women, they arenot achieving positions of management asoften as men are.

Women held 49 percent of jobs outside ofmanagement in the years 2000 and 2007,according to an article in The New York Times.

But the number of women that held mana-gerial positions in that seven-year span onlyincreased by 1 percent, from 39 to 40.

In addition, full-time women workers onlymade 80.2 cents for every dollar a man earned.

The disparity in pay has affected howwomen in managerial positions make deci-sions regarding their family lives, Rep. CarolynB. Maloney, D-N.Y., said in the article.

“When working women have kids, theyknow it will change their lives, but they arestunned at how much it changes their pay-check,” Maloney said. “In this economy, it isadding insult to injury, especially as familiesare increasingly relying on the wages ofworking moms.”

More women were childless than men,with 63 percent not having children, com-pared to 57 percent of men, according to thearticle.

Women were also more likely to be single.About 60 percent of women in managerialpositions were married, compared to almostthree quarters of men.

— Andrew Howard

REPORT SHOWS WOMEN STILL LAG BEHIND MEN IN MANAGEMENT

The flu is relatively more con-tagious, Maresca said.

“Think about how manythings you touch during the dayand how many people are hereat Rutgers,” she said. “Animportant thing to remember isthat germs live in what we call‘hard nonporous’ surfaces —doorknobs, banisters, desks.People touch them and thenthey touch their faces.”

The germs on these surfacescan spread to the face easily,Maresca said.

“Our face is full of mucus mem-brane. We have it in our eyesmouth and nose,”she said. “I alwayssay think of mucusmembrane as thedoorway to germs.So if we wash ourhands and avoidtouching our face,we’re taking goodsteps.”

In the UnitedStates, there is anextensive vaccina-tion system, Maresca said.Before students attend theUniversity they must be vaccinat-ed to slow the spread of preventa-ble illnesses.

Still, hand washing is one ofthe best ways to prevent thetransmission of the flu, cold andother germs, she said.

Health Services targets a specif-ic group of individuals with compro-mised immune systems, Marescasaid. People who have chronic ill-nesses such as diabetes and asthmaare encouraged to get vaccinatedfirst, followed by those who work inhealth care and are constantly sur-rounded by ill people, and then thegeneral population.

The combination vaccine,which is injected in the upperarm, was not ready in time for lastyear’s flu season, Maresca said.The seasonal flu vaccine and theH1N1 virus vaccine last yearwere distributed separately.

The new flu vaccine is an inac-tivated or a killed vaccine,Kozlowski said. She said peoplesometimes have concerns abouthaving a live virus in their system.

There are no major side effectsto the flu vaccine, but with the intra-muscular vaccine, some may feelslight irritation and soreness at ornear the injection site, Maresca said.

Students who have allergies toeggs or chicken cannot take thenew flu vaccine, nor can thosewho are already ill, she said.

There is a rare chance stu-dents may be allergic to the vac-cination, but overall, the risk islow, Kozlowski said.

“It’s wonderfully safe,” shesaid. “We’ve not had any prob-lems. We’ve had multiple studentswho feel it has really given theman opportunity to feel better.”

The CDC isworking on nextyear’s flu vaccine,as the influenzavirus mutatesslightly each year,Maresca said.

“Last year’s vac-cine would notwork on this year’s[virus,]” she said.“It’s always some-thing that’s evolv-

ing and changing so the vaccineevolves and changes as well and ithas to in order for it to be effective.”

Individuals still need to vacci-nate yearly, Maresca said.

“It’s not like getting yourmeasles, mumps and rubella vac-cine. Rarely do people ever needto take it again,” she said. “This issomething people will be encour-aged to do on a seasonal basis.Pretty much at the beginning ofevery flu season.”

Liza Patel, an Ernest MarioSchool of Pharmacy junior,received a flu vaccination last yearand plans to do so again. Patelsaid she didn’t get sick last seasonand realized getting ill is some-thing unplanned.

“Preventative medicine avoidscosts later,” she said. “If I did get sickI would’ve had to miss school. Iwould’ve had to have doctor visits.This way, I could avoid all that. I def-initely think it helps in the long run.”

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encouraged to do on a seasonal basis.”

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Shooting breaks outat University of Texas

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN, Texas — A studentwearing a dark suit and a skimask opened fire yesterday withan assault rifle on the Universityof Texas campus before fleeinginto a library and fatally shootinghimself. No one else was hurt.

The shooting began near afountain in front of the UT Tower— the site of one of the nation’sdeadliest shooting rampagesmore than four decades ago,when a gunman ascended theclock tower and fired down ondozens of people.

Within hours of Tuesday‘sgunfire, the school issued an all-clear notice, but the universityremained closed, and the areaaround the library still was con-sidered a crime scene.

“Our campus is safe,” schoolPresident Bill Powers said.

Austin Police Chief ArtAcevedo expected the school tobe “completely open and back tonormal” by Wednesday morning.

Authorities identified thegunman as 19-year-old ColtonTooley, a sophomore mathmajor. Police declined to specu-late on his motive. Tooley’s par-ents did not immediatelyrespond to a message left by TheAssociated Press.

Tooley’s high school principalin Austin described him as anexcellent student who excelled inevery subject.

“All of us in the Crockett HighSchool community are shockedand saddened by today’s tragedyat the University of Texas,” saidprincipal Craig Shapiro.Shapiro’s prepared statementsaid Tooley, a 2009 graduate, wasremembered by teachers asbeing “brilliant,” ‘‘meticulous,”and “respectful.”

Police investigators went inand out of his family‘s home in amiddle-class Austin neighbor-hood Tuesday afternoon carry-ing bags and boxes. There wasno immediate word on what wasin the containers. A neighborsaid police arrived at the homeabout three hours after the cam-pus shooting.

The 50,000-student universi-ty had been on lockdown whileof ficers with bomb-snif fingdogs carried out a building-by-building manhunt.

After the gunfire, authoritiessearched the campus for a possi-ble second shooter, but eventual-ly concluded Tooley acted alone.Confusion about the number ofsuspects arose because shotswere fired in multiple locations,and officers received varyingdescriptions from witnesses,campus police Chief RobertDahlstrom said.

Before reaching the library,Tooley apparently walked forseveral blocks wearing a maskand dark clothing and carry-ing an automatic weapon, witnesses said.

Construction worker RubenCordoba said he was installing afence on the roof of a three-storybuilding near the library whenhe looked down and made eyecontact with the suspect.

“I saw in his eyes he didn’tcare,” Cordoba said.

The gunman continued downthe street, firing three shotstoward a campus church, thenchanged direction and firedthree more times into the air,Cordoba said.

A garbage truck driver leapedout of his vehicle and ran away, asdid a woman carrying twobabies, Cordoba.

“I‘m not scared, but I wasscared for the people aroundme,” he said.

Randall Wilhite, an adjunctlaw professor, said he was drivingto class when he saw “studentsstart scrambling behind waste-baskets, trees and monuments,”and then a young man carryingan assault rifle sprinting alongthe street.

“He was running right in frontof me ... and he shot what Ithought were three more shots ...not at me. In my direction, butnot at me,” Wilhite said.

The professor said the gun-man had the opportunity to shootseveral people, but did not.

Police said it was unclearwhether Tooley was targetinganyone with the AK-47.

Oscar Trevino, whose daugh-ter works on campus, said shetold him she was walking to worknear the library when she heardtwo shots behind her. She startedto run and fell down. She said shelater heard another shot.

“She’s freaking out. I’m tryingto calm her down. I’ve just beentelling her I love her and relax,everything’s fine,” Trevino said.

Acevedo said officers wereable to track the gunman‘smovements with the help of stu-dents who “kept pointing in theright direction.”

The police chief said hebelieves Tooley ran into thelibrary as officers closed in onhim, then shot himself in thehead on the sixth floor. Police didnot fire any shots, Acevedo said.

Powers credited the school’scrisis-management plan andsocial networking for quicklywarning students, faculty andstaff. The university’s text mes-saging system reaches morethan 43,000 people, he said.

Laura Leskoven, a graduatestudent from Waco, said she wasin a media management classwhen she received a text mes-sage from the university sayingthere was an armed person nearthe library. For the next 3 and ahalf hours, Leskoven and about30 of her classmates sat in alocked conference room trying tokeep tab on events throughTwitter, blogs and text messages.

“We were kind of shocked,”Leskoven said. “Our professorsaid, ‘Well, we need to getupstairs’ because we were on thefirst floor of the building.”

Student Joshua Barajas saidhe usually is in the library in themornings but was delayedTuesday when he made a rarestop for coffee.

“These little mundane deci-sions could save your life. If Ihadn’t stopped for coffee — andI never stop for coffee becauseit’s $4 — I could have been inthat building,“ Barajas said. “It‘screepy. I don’t even want to thinkabout it.”

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Elijah’s Promise wins award for substance abuse recovery programBY COLLEEN ROACHE

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The National Council onAlcohol and Drug Dependence ofMiddlesex County granted its2010 Tree of Hope award, whichrecognizes an organization work-ing to promote substance abuserecovery, to local soup kitchenElijah’s Promise.

Lisanne Finston, executivedirector of Elijah’s Promise, waspleased to have the organizationreceive the award last week at aceremony outside its LivingstonAvenue administrative building.

“We’re honored to be recog-nized for the work that we do andare grateful to be in partnershipwith wonderful organizations likeNCADD in the community,”Finston said.

After soliciting nominationsfrom the local community, theNCADD chose Elijah’s Promiseas this year’s winner, NCADD

Chief Executive Officer StevenLiga said.

“In looking around the com-munity, we realized they supportrecovery in a very meaningfulway,” he said. “It’s a very valuableresource, and we wanted to high-light them.”

The main criterion for selec-tion was an emphasis on addic-tion recovery, Liga said.

“What we look for is an organ-ization that is doing something tosupport recovery in pretty muchany way,” he said. “We’re lookingfor a [group] that’s doing some-thing special, something that thecommunity should recognize asreally important.”

Even though Elijah’s Promiseis not a substance abuse preven-tion agency, nor is it a treatmentagency, their work on substanceabuse complements working withthe hungry, he said.

“Many of those people alsomay have a substance abuse

problem, so they have people onsite to talk to them about a treat-ment program — a supportiveprogram, an educational pro-gram,” he said.

Job training at Elijah’sPromise’s culinary school helpskeep former addicts on a path to abetter life, Liga said.

“They take folks who startedout going to the soup kitchenbecause they needed some-thing to eat, hook them up withrecover y ser vices and whenthey come back, they are putinto a true job training pro-gram,” he said. “Somebody whohas a career is much more like-ly to stay sober than somebodywho’s homeless.”

Now director of the soupkitchen, Pam Johnson expressedappreciation for all Elijah’sPromise has done for her.

“I had nothing when I got here,”she told The Home News Tribune.“It changed my life tremendously.”

The organization’s offer toprovide transportation to thenearest substance detoxificationfacility for those without healthinsurance — located in BergenCounty — was also key in itsbeing selected, Liga said.

“For a lot of folks, that’s theonly way they’ll ever get there,”he said.

The ultimate goal of theaward is to bring awareness ofavailable resources to the com-munity, he said.

“For most people, all theyknow about drug addiction isthe people they see on TV whorelapse all the time,” he said.“But they don’t realize theyprobably work with somebodyor have a next-door neighborwho’s probably in recovery anddoing really well.”

Although an evergreen treeis typically planted at the awardceremony, an apple tree is nowin the administrative of fice’s

lawn, which Finston said fit bet-ter with the goals of Elijah’s Promise.

“[It was] a symbol of hope forthe community and a way to alsosymbolize the work of our organi-zation, Elijah’s Promise, in thehope that we will continue to bearfruit,” she said.

While many people knowElijah’s Promise as a soupkitchen, not as many under-stand that the organizationactively works with patrons atthe kitchen to provide themwith access to treatment pro-grams and support their recov-er y, Finston said. For theorganization, its culinar yschool is the next stage, asmany students there are oftenpeople in recovery.

“The focus of our work as anorganization is using food as atool to feed people and to equipthem with the tools to be success-ful in life,” Finston said.

At an Old Bridge, N.J., town hall event, Gov. ChrisChristie said yesterday that he wanted to change thesystem of how teachers get pay raises.

He proposed teachers’ salaries should be cohesiveto their student’s achievement, instead of the experi-ence on their résumés, according to an article onnj.com.

Teachers currently receive salary raises by paygrids that derive the number of years they worked and

their education degrees, according to the article. ButChristie wants to prohibit seniority completely for con-sideration of pay increases.

He also wants to reward individuals who earn “mas-ter” teacher or principle titles with the chance to men-tor students or establish a charter school, according tothe article.

To keep parents informed, Christie plans to placeteacher evaluations online.

Christie said he was disappointed with school dis-tricts that spend thousands per student every year butstill have low graduation rates.

“Don’t let anyone tell you that in New Jersey moneyis the issue behind a failure to achieve what we need toachieve,” Christie said in the article. “Money is theissue, not because of a failure to achieve, but becauseit’s bankrupting our state.”

— Reena Diamante

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The Jay-Z Effect seems tobe targeting the urban demo-graphics and rap audiences.But this theory does not takeinto account the dozens ofother Yankee-cap wearing

criminals that are not from urban regions or don’t lis-ten to rap music. Consider for example, EdwardDodson, who was born in Shelby, N.C.; he robbed 64banks wearing sunglasses and an old Yankees cap.Dodson robbed more banks than any single personand was dubbed as the “Yankee Bandit.”

The obvious assumption might be that criminalsin the New York area are wearing Yankees caps notdue to the influence of the baseball team but to rep-resent where they come from. After all, it’s fair tosay that most students attending our Universitywould wear Rutgers’ apparel rather than that ofanother school. This is not the case. There aremany people in other states throughout the UnitedStates that are committing crimes while wearingNew York Yankees paraphernalia, as mentioned inthe Times article. Earlier this year, a man who

robbed a Chase bank outside of aChicago suburb was wearing aYankees hat. So was a young manwho assaulted an 81-year-old womanin her home in Seattle, Wash.Perhaps these were creative ploys totarnish the powerful Yankees brand(probably not)! The fact that thesecriminals were wearing Yankeehats, rather than caps representingtheir home teams such as theSeattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs or

White Sox, exemplifies that these criminals identifywith the team rather than the city.

It comes as no surprise that many people —criminals and non-criminals alike — enjoy being apart of the winning team. With 27 Major LeagueBaseball championship wins, the New YorkYankees are one of the most associated teamsaround. Since they are so popular, we buy more oftheir apparel to associate ourselves with winners.The article states that the Yankees sell more mer-chandise than any other baseball team, with abouta 25 percent market share of nationwide sales ofmerchandise licensed by the MLB. The moststraightforward explanation to why so many crimi-nals are wearing Yankees hats might be due to thefact that the team is so popular.

Regardless, the biggest criminal in the newsright now wears a New York Mets (the losing NewYork baseball team) cap; he was the Mets’ closer,Francisco Rodriguez. In my opinion, you should begood as long as you don’t don a Boston Red Sox orNew York Mets cap — you don’t want to be associ-ated with losers. Better yet, represent your ScarletKnight pride and Hoo-Rah all the way!

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D on’t be surprised ifthe next crimealert you receive

from the Rutgers UniversityPolice Departmentdescribes the suspect assporting a crisp New York Yankees cap. The NewYork Times reported earlier this month that a sig-nificant number of criminals in the New York regionhave worn Yankees caps or some form of Yankeeparaphernalia while committing crimes rangingfrom locker room thefts to violent crimes such asarmed bank robberies and deadly shootings. As anavid New York Yankee fan, this news is appalling:Are we as Yankee fans simply brutal, violence-lovingmaniacs who loiter the streets waiting for the righttarget? Of course not, this would be a silly accusa-tion to make considering that most Yankee fans arenot criminals and sport their team’s apparel to asso-ciate with their love of the game.

One theory of why so many people are wearingYankee caps while committing crimes is that thesecriminals are identifying with the team’s aura of money,power and success. This I will not deny— the Yankees have had a long-stand-ing record of winning and have wonmore championships than any majorsports team in American history.Another theory proposed has beenassociated to gangster-rappers wear-ing specific team caps.

A criminologist currently writinga book about the role of clothing incriminal cases has dubbed this the-ory the “Jay-Z Effect.” RapperShawn Carter (aka Jay-Z) has been wearing aYankee cap in many of his videos, album covers andguest appearances on television for many years. Inhis popular single “Empire State of Mind,” he raps,“I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankeecan.” This can prove to be a legitimate theory, seem-ingly due to rappers’ influence on urban popula-tions. The article states that rappers have given theYankees a form of street rep and an impression ofcoolness. Not surprisingly, many gang membershave worn specific team hats that match with theirgang colors. The two most gang-affiliated hats thisyear have been those of the Cincinnati Reds and theLos Angeles Dodgers. Best-selling rapper Lil Waynewears the hats of all three of the aforementionedsports teams — the Yankees, Reds and Dodgers —while 50 Cent primarily wears the Yankees andChicago White Sox caps. It would be ridiculous topresume that all rappers that wear particular sportshats are affiliated with gangs, rather; they are mostlikely representing their hometown. This seems tobe the case with rappers such as Jay-Z, who is fromBrooklyn and Atlanta-born rapper T.I. who wearsthe Atlanta Braves hat.

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“For most people, all they know about drug addiction is the people they see on TV who relapse all the time.”

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J ust prior to the November elections, there is the occurrence ofthose congressmen who choose to proliferate partisanship withthe sole purpose of securing their agendas. They choose to

reject a bill simply due to its label as “by the opposing party.”According to The Huffington Post, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., e-mailedon Monday “GOP aides to let them know that he would block all leg-islation that he and his staff have not personally cleared until theNovember elections.” Our problem with this tactic — albeit its use byboth parties — is the fact that our representatives are too busy hold-ing inter-party grudges than doing their jobs.

DeMint’s threat to grind the consideration of bills to a halt is noth-ing new, as one Democratic senator said. It has in fact been a policyof DeMint’s since Obama’s election as president. And that is therecurring problem on Capitol Hill. We, as voters, are inconveniencedby this refusal to even look at certain bills if a member of the oppos-ing political party drafted it. DeMint is just one example of this falla-cy in Washington.

This constant of partisan politics on part of politicians like DeMintprevents congressmen from doing their jobs. Their responsibilities assenators are to take the voice of the people and at least read the bill —as vile as it could be. And even in those cases of congressmen reach-ing across the aisle, DeMint and similar politicians choose to act withthe sole preservation of party politics, albeit under the pretense of act-ing for the citizens of a given state.

“It is my understanding Jim DeMint has had a standing hold oneverything throughout this two-year process,” Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. “When I have had amend-ments on a couple of occasions, I have been told: ‘Absolutely, we in theRepublican leadership are fine but you are going to have to clear it withJim DeMint because he has a standing hold on everything.’”

Before the upcoming elections, we are likely to see more cases thanbefore, which advocate for the delay of legislation at least until the nec-essary seats have been won in Congress. This only benefits those withthe prospect of keeping their spot in legislature, while it leaves us, thevoters, with a severe bruise from the fist of party politics. With con-gressmen not doing their jobs until after elections, we are the onlyones to suffer.

A fter years of positioning himself as an outspoken enemy of theIranian government, Iranian-Canadian blogger HosseinDerakhshan made a bold move in 2008: He went back to Iran.

Unsurprisingly, the authorities quickly apprehended him and chargedhim with an array of crimes, including spreading propaganda againstthe ruling establishment and insulting Islamic thought and religiousfigures. They sentenced him yesterday to 19 and a half years in jail forthese supposed crimes.

We find this to be a downright disheartening turn of events.Derakhshan is a hero, not a criminal. He should be lauded for his will-ingness to stand up for what he believes in, not sentenced to jail. In theface of a government as abusive of human rights as Iran’s, Derakhshancalled for justice. It seems rather unfair that he himself is now beingdenied the justice he so fiercely fought for.

That being said, we also can’t help but feel like Derakhshan shouldhave been smarter about this whole situation. The man spent years ofhis life criticizing the Iranian government. He knew how it worked,and he knew what kinds of injustices it was capable of. Regardless ofthis knowledge, he waltzed right back into the country as if he werebulletproof. Is it any kind of surprise then that he was quickly arrest-ed? Or that he was held in jail for two years and allowed very limitedcontact with the outside world? Or that he is now going to spend anoth-er 19 and a half years in Iranian jail? It isn’t a surprise to us, and it cer-tainly should not be a surprise to Derakhshan.

It is not that we agree at all with the way the Iranian governmenthas been treating Derakhshan. On the contrary: We find charges like“promotion of counterrevolutionary groups” and “insulting Islamicthought” absolutely absurd. We believe Derakhshan has the inalien-able human right to voice his opinion, and we believe his opinions weremorally justified opinions. But for a supposedly smart guy,Derakhshan made a pretty stupid mistake in returning to Iran.Ironically, Derakhshan even expressed support for PresidentMahmoud Ahmadinejad and his tendency to stand up against the Westmonths before he went to visit Iran and wound up in a jail cell. It justgoes to show — never trust an unjust government, especially one thathas marked you as an enemy.

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Iran blogger placesself in danger

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that if we catch up to Finlandand South Korea in the percent-age of adults who haveadvanced degrees, we wouldadd at least $1.3 trillion to oureconomy. A Lumina Foundationstudy reinforced those find-ings, illustrating that improvingrates of college graduation foradults will dra-matically lowerunemployment.Lumina foundthat we will need60 percent ofadults in thiscountry to holdcollege degreesby 2025 in orderto fill the avail-able positions ingrowing fieldsand industries. Here in NewJersey, we will need 200,000more people to attain degreesin order to meet the goal forour state.

As we all know, we are stillfacing incredibly dif ficult eco-nomic times. As we struggle torecover, we need to make surethat college is not financially

out of reach for any capable stu-dents. Until recently, studentloans were administered by thefinancial industr y, whichskimmed billions every year infees from the money loaned tocollege students. Congresspassed student loan reform inMarch, allowing the govern-

ment to loandirectly to stu-dents and usethe $80 billionsaved to helpmore studentsafford to go tocollege by issu-ing more stu-dent loans andPell Grants.After receivingmore than

$300,000 from finance andinsurance companies for hiscampaign, my opponent Rep.Leonard Lance, R-7, opposedthe legislation. His support ofthe financial industr y at theexpense of students is unten-able: We must reduce the barri-ers to higher education for allstudents in order to help our

country get its edge back. Inthese tough economic times, wemust continue to make qualityhigher education accessible sothat students have the knowl-edge and tools that they need tocontribute to our economy.

I’m running for Congress toensure that every college stu-dent graduates and can get agood job. I will fight to makesure America’s schools, fromkindergarten through college,can continue to provide a worldclass education to all of our stu-dents. I’m looking forward toengaging further with theUniversity community on jobsand education in the comingweeks of the campaign and see-ing you at homecoming! I hopeyou’ll stop by the Democrats’tailgate on Saturday before thegame. Let’s go RU!

Ed Potosnak is a Universityalumnus of the Rutgers CollegeClass of 1996 and the GraduateSchool of Education Class of1999. He is currently runningfor a congressional seat in theNew Jersey 7th district.

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A s we approach home-coming this weekend,I’ve been reflecting

about my time spent on theBanks. Like many, I put myselfthrough school working —always making time for foot-ball games, of course. TheUniversity put me on the pathto success. During my timehere, I earned an undergradu-ate degree in chemistr y, agraduate degree in educationand even taught as an adjunctprofessor. Now, I’m runningfor U.S. Congress and makingyour concerns — jobs and edu-cation — a centerpiece of my campaign.

In a highly technical, global-ized world, it is becoming dif fi-cult to attain a good job withoutgraduating college. Two recentstudies proved what we havelong known: Higher educationleads to better employmentopportunities and more pros-perity. A McKinsey study found

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Ensure education, benefit US economy

“I’m running forCongress to ensurethat every collegestudent graduates

and can get a good job.”E veryone who thinks that

the scope of FacebookCEO Mark Zuckerberg’s

$100 million donation to theNewark public schools is limited tohim trying to make up for a baddepiction in “The SocialNetwork” is not paying attention.Well, they are to the entertainmentworld but not to the educational sys-tem in our state. On “Oprah,” andduring an educational summit inNew York City, Gov. Chris Christieand upstart Newark mayor CoryBooker interviewed withZuckerberg to accept the donation.Christie is playing the part of theRepublican willing to “reach acrossthe aisle” and in so doing he will besupposedly granting control of thedonation to Booker exclusively.This political and public relationsgold mine for both politicians willhave huge implications come themidterm elections in just fiveweeks. Since all representatives areup for re-election this makes thingsdicey, especially in a state that justconfirmed via Quinnipiac poll inAugust that more New Jerseyansapprove of our governor than theObama administration.

In response, President BarackObama was interviewed on the“Today Show” by Matt Lauer, andthe entirety of it played for thenation yesterday morning. He didnot reference the donation madenational news, however he didmake some bold statements on thesubject of education reform, theheart of the issue. He declared thatmoney alone would be insufficientin solving education reform, andthat we need to “clear away thebureaucratic underbrush prevent-ing kids from learning.” And whenthe issues of poverty and underpriv-ileged children should be the focus,it is instead turned to the self-serv-ing administrators of local schooldistricts, and maybe rightly so. Thesuperintendent from my highschool has been making close to$200,000 annually since 2008, whenshe signed a contract for renewal in2012 to work 240 out of 365 days ayear. While Emily Capella and simi-lar administrators around the coun-try are becoming millionaires, ourcountry’s public educational systemis being ignored.

Politicians claim that theseissues should be centered aroundthe student, while they work onweeding out long-tenured andineffective educators, than sittingdown for negotiations with power-ful teachers unions. Meanwhile,children are failing out of schooland not being taught to read prop-erly or given basic math and sci-ence knowledge. The public edu-cational system needs to be com-pletely overhauled, and thisshould not be a political issue. Wewill have to wait and see how thisplays out in the long term, but fornow we have to hope that bureau-cracy will not once again reignsupreme and that the children ofour nation will actually be thefocus of this effort.

Jake Janofsky is a RutgersBusiness School first-year student.

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T H E D A I L Y T A R G U MSP O RT S1 6 S E P T E M B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 0

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Junior forward Sam Archer has two goals on the season.

we’ve been best friends on and offthe field.”

The two combined for threegoals and two assists as freshmen,when the Scarlet Knights went 6-9-3.

In their sophomore seasons,when the two were expected tomake big strides and becomelarge contributors, only one hitthe ground running.

Kamara took the reigns of theKnights’ offense in his secondseason, leading the squad withseven goals en route to a Third-team All Big East selection.

While Kamara took off,Archer sputtered out of the gates.

The quick-footed forwardtripped over obstacles such asinjuries and academic ineligibili-ties, allowing him to only startthree games.

“Man, you’re bringing up badmemories,” said Archer of his soph-omore slump. “I guess you can sayI was in a little bit of a depressionlast year. I mean, soccer is my life— it’s what I love. So not being onthe field really killed me last year.That’s all my drive for this year.”

The resignation of former headcoach Bob Reasso, along with thehiring of an offensive-mindedcoach in Dan Donigan, resurrect-ed Archer’s once stagnant career.

“As soon as the new coachingstaf f came in, I was back,”Archer said. “I was back tobeing me. I was back to playinghow I love to play.

“It was definitely a struggle lastyear. That’s always in the back ofmy head this year. I want to provethat I am good enough to play. Ineed to be doing what I do, scoring

goals and helping the team win.”Now rejuvenated, Archer

scored twice thus far in 2010. His first goal of the season

served as the game winner againstLong Island and his second goal inas many games tied the matchagainst Hartford at one goal apiece.

Rutgers went on to win thegame in overtime.

Through six games, Doniganlikes the speed and scoring abili-ty that Archer showed.

“Sammy is a guy that’s gottremendous pace, tremendousone v. one ability and he’s got fin-ishing ability,” he said.

Archer and Kamara combinedfor three goals and 22 shots in theseason’s early going. On thepitch, the two work flawlessly insync, working give-and-go com-bos and spreading the field forother Knights pushing forward.

“Me and Ib at practice — we’realways together,” Archer said.“We’re always looking for each otherand we have good combinations.”

The talented pair and the restof the Rutgers (3-2-1) offense hita snag last time on Yurcak Field,as Marquette shut out theKnights for just the second timethis season in a 1-0 loss.

The defeat came at the tail endof a five-game homestand and theKnights’ next shot at redemptioncomes this afternoon inPhiladelphia with a matineeagainst Temple.

The Owls (1-4-2) come into thematch off a loss of their own — a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Siena.

For the Knights to leap this hur-dle, the offense needs to get backto creating chances and holdingpossession. It’s a job with two per-fect candidates, two friends withone love for soccer and two friendswho know exactly what it means toovercome obstacles.

OBSTACLES: Archer

thrives under Donigan’s style

continued from back

If Gentile lacked consistencythrough the squad’s first eightmatchups, the last two gamesgive no indication.

Eight of her team-leading 16shots came over the weekend, asthe junior came just three shotsshort of matching the totalamount taken by the Wildcatsand Golden Rams combined.

Not only is Gentile more aggres-sive, she’s also more efficient.

The Jamison, Pa., nativeboasts a .812 shot on goal per-centage so far this season, andwith the help of the past twogames, she and the rest of theteam are confident headinginto the meat of the Big East schedule.

“This weekend reallyhelped our confi-dence a lot, notonly for winninga Big East gamebut also becausewe had back-to-back wins, whichwe haven’t hadyet this season,”Gentile said.“We’re just hop-ing to have reallystrong practicesthis week andthen build up forour next Big

East game Friday against Georgetown.”

The question now iswhether the Knights’ revital-ized of fensive attack can maintain its momentum mov-ing forward.

Like Tchou often notes, it allstarts on the practice field.

“I think just sticking togeth-er and just really going hard atpractice,” Gentile said of keysto staying successful. “We’rejust going to keep it going andgo hard all week.”

The Knights get back intoconference action Friday,when the team treks to thenation’s capital to take on BigEast-foe Georgetown. TheHoyas enter the matchup witha 5-5 record.

As for Gentile, expect her tobe ready to make another good impression.

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Rutgers head coach Liz Tchou was tough on Nicole Gentile,but the junior forward responded with a four-goal weekend.

Not only did the perform-ance indicate to Tchou what hersquad is capable of, but it alsoboosted the morale of Gentileand her teammates.

“It’s been a confidencebooster for me and for the for-wards,” Gentile said. “Howmuch we scored this weekendshows that we’re getting pointson the board.”

Even more impressive isthe fact that Gentile’s two-goalper formance against WestChester Sunday marked thethird straightgame in whichthe for ward tal-lied a score, stir-ring wonderabout how manymore victoriesthe Knightsmight have if theteam’s for wardsdelivered theirweekend per-formances earli-er in the year.

The early-sea-son struggles donot matter now. All that counts isthat Tchou’s squad is clicking atthe perfect time.

“Nicole has been awesome,but [it’s] not only Nicole. Theother forwards that have gone inhave really worked togethermuch more cohesively on thefield,” Tchou said.

Senior co-captain Jenna Bullalso sees promise in theamended forward line, hintingthat the communicationbetween the midfielders con-tinues to improve.

“I think our forwards aredoing an excellent job. Theyare connecting really wellbetween them and with the[midfielders],” Bull said.“Nicole has had a spark andshe has been great getting setearly and reading the defense, making the best deci-sion possible.”

SPARK: Gentile scores

four goals in past two games

continued from back

“How much we scored this

weekend shows that we’re getting

points on the board.”

NICOLE GENTILEJunior Forward

the point where we’re up 35-nothing, so let’s control thefootball. Coming into the game,our gameplan was to throw theball. They’re a man-coverage team and wewanted to take advan-tage of that.

“I played prettywell, but there aresome things you haveto fix. You have to lookat the film and keepgetting better.”

Bimonte earned hisscholarship offer afteran impressive campperformance at Rutgersover the summer.

He committed within a week.The 6-foot-3 quarterback has

a three-star ranking on

Rivals.com and a two-star rank-ing on Scout.com.

Bimonte said at the game thatsophomore wide receiver

Mohamed Sanu caughthis eye on the fieldmore than anyone else.

“That’s reallysomething I’m excitedabout,” Bimonte said.“Sanu and guys likethat just look likegreat receivers and Ican’t wait to get achance to play with them.”

In terms of contactwith Rutgers since

his commitment, Bimonte saidthat he hears frequently fromco-of fensive coordinator KirkCiarrocca and defensive backs

coach Robb Smith.“They tell me you have to stay

on top of everything in the class-room and don’t do anything stu-pid,” he said. “Act like a model cit-izen and just play football.”

KNIGHT NOTE:While facing Middletown

North, Bimonte faced of f with Rutgers of feree Shilique Calhoun.

Calhoun, a defensive end andwide receiver, had two catchesfor seven yards and one tacklefor a loss.

The 6-foot-5 end is listed as athree-star recruit on Rivals.comand received of fers from other schools such asCincinnati, Michigan State and Virginia Tech.

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M ichigan State headfootball coach MarkDantonio suffered a

heart attack two weeks agoafter his team pulled off athrilling overtime victory overNotre Dame on a fake fieldgoal.

Dantonio’s team takes onNo. 11 Wisconsin on Saturdayand the head coach plans onputting his health aside anddirecting his No. 24 Spartansfrom the press box.

Both Big Ten teams enterthe game at 4-0, and the gamemarks the first conferencematchup for Michigan State.

A CONFRONTATIONbetween Green Bay Packerssafety Nick Collins and a fanafter their 24-21 loss to theChicago Bears is currentlyunder review by the NFL.

Milwaukee WITI-TVshowed a video of the Packerssafety screaming at the fan,which then escalated whenCollins threw his mouthpieceinto the stands.

Collins stated his apolo-gies after the game for “los-ing his cool.”

NFL ROOKIES ARE OFTENvictims of a number of hazing rit-uals upon entering the league,and often times the tasks consistof much more than simply car-rying another’s pads.

However, Dallas Cowboysrookie wideout Dez Bryantwanted no part of it anddeclined to carry teammate RoyWilliams’ pads earlier in train-ing camp.

The former Oklahoma Statereceiver settled for takingWilliams to dinner, but had noway of predicting the final bill.

Williams invited offensiveand defensive players alike,who racked up a final bill of$54,896.

Luckily for Bryant, he has$8.3 million of guaranteedmoney coming his way.

AFTER A MEAGER12,446 fans showed up to watchthe Tampa Bay Rays play theBaltimore Orioles Monday,Rays third baseman EvanLongoria felt enough wasenough.

Longoria called out theteam’s fans following the 4-0loss, calling the low atten-dance “embarrassing.”

Teammate David Priceechoed similar emotions, tweet-ing after the game, “Had a chanceto clinch a post season spottonight with about 10,000 fans inthe stands ... embarrassing.”

JUST TWO DAYS AFTER theBuffalo Bills released quarter-back Trent Edwards, theJacksonville Jaguars claimed theStanford product off waivers.

David Garrard, the Jaguars’current starter, struggled thus farthis season and has thrown onetouchdown and five interceptionsafter tossing three touchdowns inthe season opener.

Edwards is likely to assumea backup or third-string quar-terback role.

can’t wait I want to be thereeven sooner.”

Not even 24 hours beforekickoff at North Carolina,Bimonte led a throttling ofMiddletown North High Schoolin a 35-0 victory.

Bimonte had three touch-down passes before halftimeand wrapped up the game witheight completions on 16attempts and 128 passing yards.

“I think we played ver ywell,” Bimonte said. “We got upearly and often and it got up to

FOCUS: Bimonte shines

in rout over Middletown North

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MIKEBIMONTE

T H E D A I L Y T A R G U M S E P T E M B E R 2 9 , 2 0 1 0 1 9S PORTS

BY NICHOLAS ORLANDOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers women’s golfteam has only two sophomores

this yearand theyare the

team’s youngest players. Karen Cash and Brittany

Weddell are two up-and-cominggolfers who have extremelybright futures ahead of them.

Their freshman yearsshowed just what they are capa-ble of and what can continue inthe future. Cash, an Allendale,N.J., native, transferred fromEast Stroudsburg University atthe beginning of the semester,while Weddell enjoyed a fruitfulfreshman campaign for theScarlet Knights.

Cash won the first flight ofthe 2009 New Jersey State Women’s AmateurChampionship last season. Sheposted a 79.7 stroke average for2009 while competing in 11rounds for East Stroudsburg.

“She had a successful fresh-men year [at ESU] last year,”said head coach Maura Waters-Ballard. “She wanted to playDivision I golf and I must sayshe has done a great job for usso far. She is very focused andworking hard on her game.”

Weddell also competed lastseason as a freshman and post-ed a 79.5 stroke average to leadthe Knights. She also won theHar tford Invitational with ascore of 150 to top the 64-play-er field.

“Brittany Weddell had anextensive and successful juniorcareer playing out of SandwichHollows Golf Club in BuzzardsBay, Mass.,” Waters-Ballardsaid. “Because of that, she hasvery good mental game. She isvery mature on the course andnever allows herself to get toohigh or too low. She is level-headed.”

Cash and Weddell also havegreat influence on their team-mates. Their hard work andwill to become better showsthey are at Rutgers to stay andperform at a high level for along time.

With each having a full yearunder their belts, it is hard to believe their success cannot continue.

“Brittany and Karen are bothvery dedicated to improving theirgames,” said senior captainJeanne Waters. “Brittany hasbeen a very important part of ourprogram over the past year and ahalf, having played in every eventfor us since her freshman year.The program is in great shape forthe coming years.”

It is important for the Knightsto have the young talent to com-plement their veteran leadershipon this year’s squad.

Cash and Weddell plan toimprove this season upon theiralready strong starts.

Thus far at the Bucknell andPrinceton Invitationals,Weddell finished 36th and 40th,respectively. Cash has alsoplayed well, finishing 37th and52nd, respectively.

WOMEN’S GOLF

COURTESY OF RUTGERS ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS

Sophomore Brittany Weddell led the Rutgers women’s golf team with a stroke average of 79.5last year in her first season on the Banks, when she took first place in the Hartford Invitational.

Sophomores prove vital to RU despite inexperience

BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT

Sophomore Mohamed Sanuis quarterback Tom Savage’s go-to guy.

He has 60 percent of thewide receivers’ catchesthrough three games to goalong with 59 percent of thereceiving yards and the onlyreceiving touchdown.

But look back at the NorthCarolina game and Sanu madeneither of the two most impor-

tant catches for the Rutgers foot-ball team.

On fourth-and-4 in the secondquarter, Rutgers needed a firstdown to move into field goalrange and Savage turned tothird-year sophomore KeithStroud, who snatched a highpass out of the air for 15 yards.

“We just come out every weekjust working hard in practice andjust trying to show that we’re allready and when opportunitiescome we’ll just make the best ofthem,” Stroud said.

The other catch came late onthe second last drive of thegame, when freshman J.T.Tartacoff reached out andsnared a reception to convert ona third-and-long.

Stroud, in his third season withthe Scarlet Knights after one sea-son at Fork Union MilitaryAcademy and high school ball atFort Hamilton (N.Y.), played ineight games in 2009, but madejust one catch the entire season.

When Stroud came in for aplay last season, it was almost anassurance that a run play was onits way.

Stroud, however, embraced hisrun-blocking role, saying it didn’tbother him if he gained a reputa-tion as a blocker and not a receiver.

“I would like to be noticed for allaspects of my game, not just beingable to catch the football,” he said.“It’s just patience. You have to bepatient. When the time comes, youhave to step into the window. If youpractice hard each week, opportu-nities are going to just [come]. Youhave to take advantage of it.”

Through three games, Stroudis tied for second among widereceivers with three catches andthird with 43 yards.

“Stroud has been a great story,”said head coach Greg Schiano.“Here is a guy that is very muchwhat we represent here at Rutgers.A guy comes in — he is a talentedguy but needs a lot of work. He justkeeps pounding away, choppingaway and doing his job and youknow what? He gets a little bit bet-ter and a little bit better.

“I think his progress has real-ly sped up with coach [P.J.]Fleck. I think P.J. has done agreat job of bringing him along.Keith Stroud is really maturing

PRACTICE NOTEBOOK STROUD WORKS WAY INTO PASSING GAME

JOVELLE ABBEY TAMAYO / PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Sophomore wideout Keith Stroud’s lone reception against UNCwas a big one, as he leapt for a 15-yard catch on fourth down.

RAMON DOMPOR / ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Junior left guard Desmond Wynn (70) and the Knights offensiveline allowed quarterback Tom Savage to be sacked five times.

too. He is only a redshirt soph-omore. I think Keith is a strongguy and a big guy. I think hecan really do things.”

AFTER GIVING UP FIVEsacks against North Carolina,the offensive line does not faceany immediate personnelchanges, Schiano said.

“We are going to keep tin-kering with it,” Schiano said.“I think [Devon] Watkis isplaying at a high level so doeshe deser ve to play? …Probably. How are we goingto work that in … I don’tknow. I am not sure how thatis going to work in.”

As it stands, the lineup fromleft to right is: DesmondStapleton, Desmond Wynn,Howard Barbieri, AntwanLowery and Art Forst.

“We made the change[with Antwan Lower y], butCaleb [Ruch] is by no meansof f the radar,” Schiano said.“We just felt that Antwan gaveus a better chance right nowand that is what we are goingto do.”

THERE REMAINS NOREAL update on the status ofquar terback Tom Savage(ribs) or running back JoeMartinek (lower extremity).

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Archer, Kamara forge friendship despite obstaclesBY A.J. JANKOWSKIASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Two student-athletes came to the Banksin the summer of 2008 sharing a common

interest: a love forthe game of soccer.

Both were tal-ented forwards —two of the highestsought-after talentsin the Northeast.

Although they come from vastly differentwalks of life, the friendship between SamArcher and Ibrahim Kamara may have beenforged due to the love of a game, but nowtranscends far greater.

“I think of him as my little son,” Kamarasaid of Archer. “During a game, we havegreat combinations. We know when one of usis going forward so the other one can stayback. He’s been my best friend on and off thefield since I came here as a freshman.”

Kamara came to the United States whenhe was 13 years old after spending his earlyyears in his native Sierra Leone.

As a teenager, Kamara and his mother leftthe war-torn country and settled in NorthBrunswick to start a new life. Once he camestateside, Kamara thrived at soccer andbecame just the fifth player in New Jerseyhistory to be named to the All-State teamthree years in a row.

Archer’s journey to the Banks stayed onthe East coast, but was still a tumultuous onewith stops in Long Island, Massachusettsand his hometown of Queens.

But it is the duo’s electric style on thefield — not their pasts — producingchemistr y on the pitch that sparks the Rutgers men’s soccer team’s of fensive firepower.

“We both came in as freshmen and Iguess we just took a liking to each other,”Archer said. “How we play on the field is sim-ilar and we just have that understanding. Sowith that understanding and our type of play,CAMERON STROUD

Juniors Sam Archer (11) and Ibrahim Kamara (9) came to the Banks in 2008 and made immediate impacts, combining for three goalsand two assists. Because of their offensive-minded play, the two struck up a friendship that translates to success on the pitch.

BY ANTHONY HERNANDEZCORRESPONDENT

There is no question that through her firsteight games this year, junior forward NicoleGentile did not play her best field hockey.

The loss columnfor the ScarletKnights began to

mirror the painful three-win season fromlast year due in large part to an inept offen-sive attack.

Even after Gentile registered her firstgoal of the season in a 4-3 loss againstMonmouth, head coach Liz Tchouremained unimpressed.

But Gentile made sure she made the bestimpression possible in her next two games.

“We’ve been pretty hard on her and she’sbeen hard on herself,” Tchou said. “She hada couple of opportunities against Monmouthand wasn’t able to capitalize, so I really thinkshe got her focus together. She’s a great play-er — it’s just a matter of being able to finish— and she’s finally getting rewarded for it.”

Her reward came in the form of the BigEast Offensive Player of the Week awardafter a four-goal effort over the weekend pro-pelled the Knights to victories over Villanovaand West Chester.

The award was Gentile’s first of herRutgers career.

Junior providesspark for ineptRutgers offense

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ERIC SCHKRUTZ

Junior forward Nicole Gentile earned the Big East Offensive Player of the Week awardafter scoring four goals in Rutgers’ 2-0 weekend against Villanova and West Chester.

BY SAM HELLMANCORRESPONDENT

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — After firmlycommitting to the Rutgers football team on

Aug. 1 as a memberof the 2011 recruit-

ing class, quar terback Mike Bimontefocused his efforts elsewhere.

Going into his senior season atManalapan High School, Bimonte wants toimprove as much as possible before arriv-ing on the Banks, but his other goal is tobecome a recruiter.

Bimonte visited during the ScarletKnights’ 17-13 loss to North CarolinaSaturday to try his hand.

“I tried to talk to as many kids as Icould while I was there,” Bimonte said.“Basically, now that I’m committed, I’mtrying to be a recruiter too. I try to reachout here and there, but I don’t want tobug anybody to the point where I’m annoying.”

At the game, Bimonte sat directly behindthe team’s bench in the stands, enjoyingwhat will be his new home.

“It was just an awesome experience,”Bimonte said. “I mean I know they lost,but the whole experience was incredible.Being there for a live game just made me100 percent hungrier to be there. I really

QB committurns focus to recruiting

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