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As the new Collegeof Nursing buildinggets broken in, stu-dents explain it notonly offers high-tech equipment butalso contribute tothe entire nursingcommunity.

Twelve-year oldbreaks one millionpoints on “GuitarHero.” Nationalpraise shows America’s obsessionwith video games.

GET OFF MY LAWNToday: Partly cloudy

High: 76 • Low: 60The Rutgers football team sent Florida International packing back to Miami with a 23-15 win

over the Golden Panthers behind eight tackles and a pick-six for senior LB Ryan D’Imperio.

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Graffiti artist Jacy, 10, participates in the third annual Streets2k9 event for the first time. He contributes to the RaritanRiver Art Walk with a painting depicting a half-man, half-camel creature. Jacy says he begins his work with just ascribble and then takes his painting from there. Visit dailytargum.com and METRO on page 9 for extended coverage.

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WRITING ON THE WALL

Judge rules inEON’s favor,overturns cityclerk decision

BY ARIEL NAGI AND MARY DIDUCH

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Middlesex County SuperiorCourt Judge James Hurley ruled onFriday that City Clerk Dan Torrisiimproperly approved a petition filedby community group Unite NewBrunswick because another petitionhad been approved to appear on theNovember ballot.

UNB’s petition sought to ask votersto increase New Brunswick’s citycouncil to seven at-large membersfrom five.

Hurley’s ruling that UNB’s refer-endum question cannot appear on theballot overturns Torrisi’s Sept. 2 deci-sion and the City Council’s unani-mous approval on Wednesday at theirpublic meeting.

Torrisi’s lawyer Marvin Brauthargued that statute 40:69A-21 allowsmultiple questions on the ballot, evenif they are conflicting alternatives.

But Judge Hurley said the statutedoes not allow multiple questionsunless they are on the same petition,and in this case, two separate petitionswere filed one after the other.

“The harm is it wasn’t in the [orig-inal] petition,” Hurley said. “It is clearto me that [the law] simply meansone petition.”

Empower Our Neighborhoods’question — which is already on theballot after two years of litigation —asks voters if the current councilshould be increased to nine members— with six elected by wards and threeat-large.

EON organizer Matthew Korostoffsaid adding two more at-large councilmembers does not make any signifi-cant changes to the current form ofgovernment, and adding more ques-tions to the ballot may cause both peti-tions to lose.

“My suspicion is that they weretrying to split the vote [and] that thisis actually filed disingenuously, hop-ing that it would lose and that our peti-tion would lose, which is so diaboli-cal,” he said.

Brauth said multiple questionscould be placed on the ballot and vot-ers may choose to vote for more thanone. The question that receives themajority would prevail.

“As general application, you canhave as many questions on the ballotthat can fit,” he said.

But Judge Hurley said this wouldweaken the vote.

“If you have two questions, [and] Iwant to vote for government A andgovernment B, you’re going to havethe voter vote for both?” Judge Hurleyasked. “Aren’t you diluting the vote?”

EON’s attorney Renee Steinhagensaid EON is not denying the voterstwo options.

“There is nothing inherently wrongwith two questions to voters, but theyshould come from the same petition,”she said.

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BY GREG FLYNNCORRESPONDENT

Fun, games, sauerkraut and hotdogs — more than 3,000 studentsturned out Friday night for all of

this and the smooth jams of BobbyValentino at Hot Dog Knight.

Rutgers UniversityProgramming Association’s kick-off event at the Rutgers StudentCenter on the College Avenue

campus aimed to unify theUniversity, said RUPA AdviserMatthew Ferguson, the assistantdirector for Student Life.

“Hot Dog Knight or Hot DogDay, whatever it may be, is just a

time for people to get togetherfor no other reason than to be together and eat some food,”he said.

Up-and-coming artist Rotimi and R&B recording sensation Bobby V perform after Rutgers University Programming Association’s Hot Dog KnightFriday in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. The concert attracted hundreds of students.

‘Knight’ of free food attracts thousands

BY DEIRDRE S. HOPTONCORRESPONDENT

For the third year in a row, theUniversity set a record for receivingthe most private donations.

University President Richard L.McCormick announced the 2008-09fiscal year saw a 6 percent increase in

private donations to the University,totaling more than $128 million in giftsand pledges.

“Despite one of the most severeeconomic downturns in recent history,many individuals, foundations and cor-porations have continued to expresstheir confidence in Rutgers throughtheir generous support of our pro-

grams and initiatives,” saidMcCormick in a press release.

The Rutgers UniversityFoundation, which fundraises for theUniversity, recorded increases in totaldonations and pledges from individu-als — from $66.2 million to $71.2

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“Alumnus chases, films Rainbows,” it wasincorrectly stated that the New Jersey FilmFestival will run from Oct. 4 through Nov. 8.

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Crew builds character while pushing against currentBY ALEX JANKOWSKI

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The Banks of the RaritanRiver are the site for one of themost storied programs inUniversity history — the Rutgersclub crew team.

Predating football by fiveyears, the team has left a legacyboth on campus and throughoutthe world.

Even former UniversityPresident Mason Gross had astake in the team. He institutedRutgers Lightweight Crew as avarsity sport in 1963, and to cele-brate, he bought their first newboat with his own money.

Head coach Steve Wagner isback for his 27th season, leadinga squad that has churned outmore members to the UnitedStates Olympic rowing team dur-ing the past 20 years than anyother university.

The best part is that you donot even have to have a history inrowing to join the team, he said.

“Not too many of our rowershad experience before coming toRutgers,” Wagner said. “We bringin a few really outstanding highschool recruits but we round outthe team with walk-ons.

“These are good athletes fromother sports who have neverrowed before, and that’s thestrength of our program. With27,000 undergraduates, there arebound to be some good athletes. Itis our job to go out and find them,and bring them into rowing.”

You will never see Wagner raisehis voice to motivate his rowers.He institutes a basic program thatbrings about competitive situationsand forces the athletes to step upand push each other to the limit.

“The motivation has to bedeep seeded,” Wagner said.

The team participates in themajority of its competitions,called regattas, in the springsemester, but the groundwork

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for their success is laid during thefall and winter portions of theyear, Wager said.

Fall races help athletes honein on their skills, while the wintermonths bring dry land workoutsconsisting of running, weighttraining and simulations on realis-tic rowing machines, he said.

The team makes an annualeight-day trip to Florida in Januaryto get them back into the water. Bythe second week of February, theteam heads back to the scenicRaritan River in preparation for thespring, Wagner said. Home racesare held behind the River Dormson the College Avenue campus.

Assistant Coach ChrisDeYoung aids these athletes toachieve goals of Olympic stardom.His job is to mold newcomers tothe program — whether first-yearor upperclassmen — into com-plete athletes for the varsity club.

The team generates interest anyand every way possible, he said.

“What we do is we have ourrowers go out early in the yearwith posters and put them uparound campus and in the dininghall,” DeYoung said.

The team has a smallamount of seniors this year, andgrowth will be the theme forboth the coaches.

“You need good team chem-istry and people that are willingto work hard. You can always getfit. You can always get stronger,”Wagner said. “These can be builtup during a four-year career, andit’s not uncommon to have a badfreshman class due to inexperi-ence, but by the time they reachtheir senior year, they are thebest oarsmen in the country.”

Wagner got his start — justlike this year’s athletes — as anundergraduate rower on theUniversity’s team. But he gothis feet wet in coaching duringhis graduate school years as acoach for the Florida Instituteof Technology.

That job led him to landing aspot as an assistant coach for theColumbia University team. Daysbefore he left the coaching worldforever in favor of an engineeringjob, he received a call from hisfaithful alma mater. Just threeyears after being an assistant atthe University, Wagner wasnamed the head coach.

“I just found that I reallyenjoyed coaching,” Wagner said.“It just seems that at varioustimes in my life, whenever I triedto leave coaching, there wasalways something pulling meback in.”

Wagner has nothing but praisefor DeYoung, his helping hand.

“He is a tremendous mentorat teaching them rowing andgetting them into training,”Wagner said. “The freshmancoach is the most importantposition because he is responsi-ble for bringing the athletes inand getting them started.”

Within the first two hours ofthe event, RUPA went throughalmost 3,000 hot dogs.

Livingston College junior andRUPA member Greg Kassee,clad in a hot dog costume, said hehoped the event would bring allthe different parts of theUniversity community together.

“I want the students to comeout. I want Rutgers to come out,New Brunswick to come out.Get a hot dog, have some fun atthe games, care about RUPA,come to our other events,”Kassee said. “We’ve got a lot ofother events coming up, this isjust the kickoff.”

Kassee said students had a lotof fun with his hot dog suit.

“People love the hot dog suit,”Kassee said. “They dig it.”

Activities available to studentsincluded a frog hop, a mini-golfputt challenge, a ladder crawl anda car smash.

School of Arts and Sciencessophomore Daniel Kwon said heenjoyed the free hot dogs and thespirit of the event.

“It’s an event that anyone cango to,” Kwon said. “I just walkedout, saw it and walked over.”

Rutgers College seniorScott Huynh said the activitieswere well-planned and organ-ized. Huynh watched anotherstudent take a sledgehammerto a ’01 Ford Taurus at the car smash and admitted hewould miss this sort of eventwhen he graduated.

million — and foundations $32.2million to $40.2 million, accord-ing to the release.

The fundraising success theyexperienced last year was due toboth the generosity of donorsand the hard work of thefundraisers, said President of theRutgers University FoundationCarol Herring.

“The fundraising staff knew itwould be a tough year, and theyworked very hard and talked to alot of people,” Herring said. “Weare very fortunate to have a veryloyal alumnae body that recog-nizes the fact that public universi-ties need support right now —not just the private universities —because of decreases in govern-ment funding.”

She said the donations camefrom a variety of sources,including corporate and individ-ual donors.

“Many of our donors receivedfinancial aid when they were inschool, and they want to givesomething back… The corporatedonors really stretched them-selves to give, because they werehit very hard [by the recession].We expected their donations tobe down a lot, but they were not,”Herring said.

Corporate giving declined to$17.2 million from $22.4 million,according to the release.

Despite the success of lastyear, Herring said she is antici-pating a tough year for fundrais-ing in 2009-10.

“The next year is going to be areally tough year,” she said. “Theeconomy hasn’t turned aroundenough to make donors confident[and] they are being very cau-tious because they have to be. Wereally have to hope we receivemore large gifts this year.”

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“Specifically, [I’ll miss] watch-ing people beat the crap out ofcars,” Huynh said.

Outside the student centerbefore the concert, vendors andorganizations showered studentswith coupons, keychains, break-fast milkshakes, Doritos, totebags and other free items.

“We worked hard to get allthese different vendors here thatwould give away samples andeverything,” Ferguson said. “Weknow it’s the beginning of theyear too and that’s when studentsneed the most free stuff.”

Douglass College juniorMelissa Harkins, a RutgersJuggling Club member, said theclub had been performing at thestudent center since its meetinglet out earlier in the day. Harkinssaid the club had not juggled anyhot dogs but it was being consid-ered as a possibility.

The Bobby Valentino concertfollowed Hot Dog Knight, begin-ning at 8 p.m. when openerRotimi took the stage of theMultipurpose Room of theRutgers Student Center, on theCollege Avenue campus. Anhour later Bobby Valentinowalked out to the stage to acrowd chanting “Bobby.”

Rutgers College seniorRoselyn Jose, RUPA’s vice presi-dent of music, said about 400 peo-ple attended the concert.

Valentino sang whole songsand snippets including “Beep,”“Butter fly Tattoo” and“Anonymous.”

School of Arts and Sciencesfirst-year student JohnathanChu said he had a great time atthe concert.

“He’s really good live,” Chu said.

But much of the success ofthe past year was due to largedonations, such as the record-breaking $13 million donatedanonymously, said JoyceHendricks, the foundation’sassociate vice president of corpo-rate and foundation relations.That donation will be used toerect a new building for theRutgers Business School onLivingston campus.

“I think we have great stu-dents here at Rutgers, and Ihave a great staff,” Hendrickssaid. “As we inform people thatour students are top-notch,[that] we have great faculty[and that] we have greatresearch, we inform donors ofthe wonderful things happeninghere at Rutgers, and they wantto support us.”

Hendricks said corporatedonations came from a widevariety of sources includingJohnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merck, Novartis,AT&T, Verizon, PSEG,Prudential and Bank ofAmerica, among others.

“There are a lot of wonderfulcorporate supporters of RutgersUniversity — too many to men-tion,” she said. “The RobertWood Johnson Foundation, forexample, based out of Princeton,gave us a grant to begin theInstitute for Food Nutrition andHealth this past year. That was$10 million.”

The hard work of the pastyear has fueled the foundation’sfundraising success, while alsohoning the fundraising skills ofstaff, said James Dawson, thefoundation’s vice president ofgift planning.

“The foundation, by virtue oftaking on more fundraisers, [is]becoming more proficient in ourabilities and activities, and wehave had some outstandingexamples of donor generosity,”Dawson said. “We are workingharder, smarter and better.”

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The College of Nursing’s new building in downtown New Brunswick offers

more hands-on facilities while encouraging mutual education opportunities.

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BY ARIEL NAGICORRESPONDENT

Nursing students watched asa red ribbon was snipped at theCollege of Nursing RibbonCutting Ceremony last semester,but now they will get what theyhave been anticipating for years— the chance to put the newbuilding to work.

After four years of construc-tion and three different cere-monies dedicated to the building,the new Rutgers College ofNursing, located in downtownNew Brunswick, will open theirdoors to students this fall.

“I am very pleased that ourstudents will have access to thisbuilding, as it has state-of-the-artequipment, and it will preparethem to become distinguishedRutgers nurses,” College ofNursing Assistant Dean ValerieSmith Stephens said.

The new three-story building— located off-campus at 110Paterson St. — not only includesbigger classrooms and loungespace for students, but is alsoequipped with a simulation lablocated on the second floor whichreplicates real hospital and clinicsettings, said College of NursingInterim Dean Lucille Joel.

The simulation lab featureshospital beds and mannequinsthat simulate human diseasesand illnesses, and replicate realhuman situations such as cardiacarrest, she said.

“It allows students toencounter real clinical situationsbefore they enter the clinicalarena,” Joel said.

The simulation lab is critical tonursing education because manyclinics and hospitals prefer stu-dents who had this type of experi-ence during their undergraduatestudies, she said. The building hasmore classroom and activity space,providing a better working environ-ment for staff as well as students.

Joel said students did not haveaccess to this type of equipmentbefore, and nursing students usu-ally took classes throughout theUniversity in different buildingsaround campus.

“We never had a building,”Joel said. “We were housed in

New nursing buildingcreates tighter community

two small houses that offeredus nothing.”

College of Nursing seniorMarsha Dario said the new build-ing would make nursing studentsfeel part of the University.

“The new building is obvious-ly bigger and much more formal… whereas before, our buildingwas a house on a side street,”she said.

Dario said the building willalso help nursing students havebetter relations with the facultyand other students becausethey will all be in the vicinity ofone another.

“I appreciate this, because inthe past, it was a game searchingfor peers and mentors in differ-ent places,” she said.

College of Nursing sopho-more Ada Wong said althoughshe did not enter the newbuilding yet, she thinks it isbetter that nursing studentsnow have access to a buildingof their own.

She said she barely ever wentinto the two small houses thedepartment was housed in before.

“I think [the new building] isgoing to be a lot better because itis a lot bigger than the otherone,” Wong said.

Joel said aside from the newequipment offered at the newbuilding, the building will alsogive students a chance to learnabout the history of the Collegeof Nursing through artworkthat will decorate the walls ofthe building.

The artwork will be a time-line depicting the progress ofthe college from when it began50 years ago on the Newarkcampus to today’s three-story, state-of-the-art building, she said.

The Rutgers Institute forHealth, Health Care Policy andAging Research building locatednext to new College of Nursing iscurrently still under construc-tion, Joel said. The center willunite those working in healthcare policy, psychology, socialwork and pharmacy all underone roof.

“[The new buildings] dramati-cally increase the scope ofRutgers University,” Joel said.

Korostoff said placing thisquestion on the ballot is a way ofpreventing a change in the city’scurrent form of government.

“The attempts to block votersfrom making this choicebecomes transparent,” he said.“They are not even trying to hideit anymore.”

UNB member Kyle Kirkpatricksaid the group is disappointedwith the court’s decision.

“It’s more of a bump in the roadmore than anything,” he said.

City Spokesman Bill Braysaid the city filed an appeal ofthe decision.

“Obviously the city isn’t satis-fied with the decision,” he said.

The city is confident in theirinterpretation of the law and thatthe higher, appellate court willagree with them, Bray said. Theappeal was filed Friday on anemergency basis to be heardbefore the November ballots areprinted next week.

EON spokesman CharlieKratovil said he is unsure

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A University-based researchteam has uncovered the processduring the sleep cycle that solidifieslearning and memory formation.

Gyorgy Buzsaki, a professor atthe Center of Molecular andBehavioral Neuroscience, alongwith his co-researchers GabrielleGirardeau, Karim Benchenane,Sidney I. Wiener and Michaël B.Zugaro of the Collége de France,further developed SigmundFreud’s dream theory that thebrain rehearses what we experi-enced throughout the day, regur-gitating the information duringdream episodes.

Through experiments conduct-ed on rats, researchers have deter-mined that short transient brainevents are responsible for bothmemory consolidation and thetransfer or information from thehippocampus to the neocortex,according to their article in NatureNeuroscience Journal.

The wave ripples are intense,compressed oscillations that occurin the hippocampus, usually dur-ing stage four sleep — the deepestlevel of sleep.

“These sharp, transient eventsoccur hundreds to thousands oftimes during sleep and ‘teach’ theneocortex to form a long-termform of the memory, a processreferred to as memory consolida-tion,” Buzsaki said.

Buzsaki and his team deter-mined that sharp wave ripplescause memory formation by elimi-nating those ripple events in ratsduring sleep, according to theUniversity’s Media Relations Website. The rats were trained in a spa-tial navigation task and thenallowed to sleep after each session.An electrical stimulation removedthe ripple event, impeding in theirability to learn from the trainingbecause compressed informationwas unable to leave the hippocam-pus and transfer to the neocortex,according to the Web site.

“This is the first example that ifa well-defined pattern of activity inthe brain is reliably and selectivelyeliminated, it results in memorydeficit — a demonstration that thisspecific brain pattern is the causebehind long-term memory forma-tion,” Buzsaki said.

For more information aboutBuzsaki’s research, visithttp://osiris.rutgers.edu/frontmid/indexmid.html

— Lauren Caruso

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whether the appellate court’sdecision will be made in time, butis happy with the ruling.

“It’s good that the justice sys-tem is living up to its name and… overturning the actions of thecity [with the court’s rulings],”Kratovil said.

He said the city has spent$75,000 of taxpayers’ money sofar to fight the EON lawsuits.

“Their continuing to do that… seems against the will of thepeople they’re supposed to repre-sent,” Kratovil said.

He said EON is working on theircampaign and promoting their mes-sage throughout the community.

“This second questionnever really stopped us,”Kratovil said. “[The secondpetition] was intended to be adistraction, and I think thatperiod is over.”

Kirkpatrick said while he isunsure of how the appellate courtwill handle the case, he hopesthey rule in UNB’s favor.

“We hope that we can stillhave the question on the ballot,”he said.

If not, Kirkpatrick said thegroup would still campaign andspread their message of anexpanded, at-large council system.

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Interstate 287 to seerehabilitation project

BY SPRUHA MAGODIASTAFF WRITER

A $29 million project to reha-bilitate seven miles of I-287 kickedoff Wednesday in Piscataway.

The work will take place on thesection starting from Stelton to theWest Canal Roads, according to theDepartment of Transportation.The project is set to end November2011 and preparations have beenmade to help accommodate themotorists with the new change.

“This highway represents acritical corridor in Middlesex andSomerset counties,” Dilts said.“So, this project is indeed a wiseinvestment in our future.”

NJDOT SpokespersonTimothy Greeley assured thepublic the project is not going toaffect those traveling during theday because the lane closures willtake place overnight.

In two years the seven-mile sec-tion of I-287 will be renewed and theproject will especially benefit thosein the two counties, Dilts said.

The project is funded with thestimulus funds of the AmericanRecovery and Reinvestment Act,according to the NJDOT Web site.

This reconstruction will providean immediate boost to the econo-my as it supports several construc-tion-related jobs, Dilts said.

The project promises a saferand smoother ride for thousandsof daily commuters who travel ona section of the Interstate 287,

according to the site. The bridgedecks will be repaired overPossumtown Road and the I-287northbound bridge deck over theEaston Avenue entrance ramp.

There will be overnight laneclosures through fall 2011.

“When [Route] 18 added thenew bridge, that was a good move,but the closing lanes part of the 287rehabilitation sounds like a hassle,”said Abha Huckoo, a School of Artsand Sciences sophomore. “Thegood thing is that it will be takingplace in the night, so majority of themotorists will not be affected.”

Some students said they wereapprehensive about the project,especially after the recently com-pleted Route 18 construction, whichlasted approximately five years.

“After being on Route 18 acouple times when constructionwas going on, I hope for the sakeof those who do take 287 that theconstruction there is handled bet-ter,” said Lavina Jethani, a Schoolof Arts and Sciences sophomore.

But other students realizethe construction must come atone point.

“After a few years eventuallyevery road, or bridge needs to getrehabilitated,” said Ishani Sharma,a School of Arts and Sciencessophomore. “It’s the only way toguarantee safe travel. So althoughthere may be temporary inconven-iences during construction, in thelong run it will definitely benefit usfor safety reasons.”

BY MATTHEW REEDCONTRIBUTING WRITER

To encourage local business-es, restaurants and communityorganizations to connect with oneanother, the Middlesex CountyRegional Chamber of Commercehosted the “Largest NetworkingParty” Thursday evening indowntown New Brunswick.

Mayor Jim Cahill opened thenight with a short speech,expressing his excitement to hostthe event.

The Chamber of Commerceoriginally had the idea for theparty, which is now in its 17thyear, Cahill said.

“Traditionally, these partieshave been held at the rooftop ofthe Hyatt Regency parkinggarage,” he said. “Since last year,the hotel has gone green, andinstead of having a variety of openareas and tennis courts, theyhave an array of solar panels.”

As a result, the event this yearwas held on the corner of LivingstonAvenue and George Street.

Member of the Chamber ofCommerce Board of Directors JudiWeinberg said having the party atthis location offers more space thanthe Hyatt rooftop, with more than800 people signed up to attend and20 restaurants that participated.

The event was open to every-one in the county and free forrestaurants, since they werealready paying for the cost of foodsamples, she said. There was acharge for booths for non-restau-rant members, and a highercharge for non-chamber members.

“It is a big commitment to arestaurant; you’re doing some-

thing for free on a night yourrestaurant is open, and you’refeeding over a thousand people tocome here for the night,” she said.

The networking receptionbrings people into the city andthe county, and it is getting big-ger and bigger each year,Weinberg said.

The recession was a commontheme throughout the night.

“We have learned to cut costsin areas we never knew existed inorder to operate on a lower levelof sales,” said Betsy Algier, man-ager of Frog & the Peach restau-rant in the city.

Mark McCue, head chef at theImperia restaurant in Somerset,talked about the difficulties ofowning a restaurant business in atough economy.

“During a recession, restau-rants are going to get hit first,” hesaid. “People can easily stayhome and cook a quick meal forthemselves.”

McCue said catering and ban-quets hold a safety net during atime of recession.

“People have contracts thatthey have to honor for partiesthat have already paid for beforethe recession hit,” he said.

Proprietor of Due Mari restau-rant Francois Rousseaudescribed the toll the recessionhas put on his restaurant in NewBrunswick.

“To be honest, it’s been a verytough year,” he said. “Last sum-mer, it was still a word of mouthkind of thing; then in November,the market crashed.”

But the recent influx of collegestudents has created a lot of busi-ness, Rousseau said.

Businesses, organizations take ‘party’ to downtown streets

Attendees at the “Largest Networking Party” in Monument Square enjoy free samples provided by localrestaurants. Aimed at drawing business to the city and the county, the event is in its 17th year.

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“The past few weeks havebeen very good,” he said.

Marketing Director of theAmerican Repertory BalletChristine Bragg said many peopleare choosing to stay local forentertainment rather than travelto New York City.

“Why pay to go into New York,when you’ve got something asgood as this right here in NewJersey?” Bragg said.

Director of Group Services atthe George Street PlayhouseMichelle Bergamo echoed this sen-

timent, noting that New Jersey hasmany worthwhile shows to offer.

“For the same quality as NewYork, prices [in the state] aren’tanywhere near what Broadwaywould cost, and people are realiz-ing this,” Bergamo said.

Non-profit organizations alsohad a strong presence at the party.

“We work off grants and dona-tions from private sources, sothese networking events are veryimportant,” said Spokespersonfor the Central Jersey CommunityDevelopment Corporation Jesse

Crawford. “They let the commu-nity know what we have to offerand what’s available.”

The Arc of Middlesex County,a non-profit organization thatworks with individuals with devel-opmental disabilities, was alsorepresented at the party.

Arc employee Emily Myerssaid the organization helps indi-viduals with housing, careers andin-home support.

“It’s always great to come outto these events and get yourname out there,” she said.

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BY AMBIKA SUBRAMANYAMCONTRIBUTING WRITER

More than 100 artists armedwith an array of aerosol spraycans and paints came to theRaritan River Art Walk Wall alongRoute 18 Saturday to create anoutdoor gallery of murals at theStreets 2k9 event.

Sponsored by the non-profitartist collective Albus Cavus, alltypes of people came together toexpress themselves throughmurals and street art on the mile-long wall, said Peter Krsko, AlbusCavus co-founder.

“The idea is that [in thisspace,] people come and paintany time they want,” he said.

Collective artist Leon Rainbowis in charge of organizing eventsin New Jersey.

“It’s a great group. I’ve beenwith them since the beginningand I love it,” he said.

The artists who attendedStreets 2k9 were there not onlyfor a good time but also for thechance to win a few prizes, suchas $150 in art supplies, Rainbowsaid. The artist collective hoped toget a wide assortment of peoplefrom professionals to first-timers.

Aja Washington, one of fivewinners in last year’s Streets 2k8event, was among the many sea-soned artists who returned toStreets 2k9.

Washington said the collectiveis doing a great job with its com-munity outreach and is able to getmany different types of artiststogether to express themselvesand expand their techniques andknowledge, as well as just relaxand have a good time.

School of Social Work gradu-ate student Danica DiGiacomo

has never done street art beforebut paints regularly.

“I have been hearing aboutAlbus Cavus since last year’sStreet 2k8, and I love that basical-ly anyone can come and try itout,” she said.

Street art, more commonlyknown as graffiti, is not alwaysunderstood or appreciated bypeople, Krsko said.

“There is a reason why peopledo it though — we need toexpress ourselves,” he said.

Elan Wonder, a well-knownstreet artist who has been paint-ing for more than 15 years, cameto paint at Streets 2K9.

“Is [street art] always legal?No,” Wonder said. “But it’s unde-niable, it’s an art form.”

Krsko agreed that whenfound on public buildings andbridges, street art is perceived tobe damaging.

“The real issue is what subjectscan and cannot be painted, and Ithink this is a problem that can besolved in a natural way,” he said.

Due to the fact that street artis illegal in many public places,people who choose to paint inthose places must do so stealthilyand quickly, making sure they arenot visible to many other people,Krsko said.

This causes them to feel angryand discriminated against, which isreflected in their painting, he said.

“When people are permitted topaint freely, I think what we willsee is an explosion of beautifulart,” Krsko said.

He said public places are justthat — public and meant for thecommunity to enjoy.

“If people want to sing in pub-lic, they sing. If people want todance in public, they dance,”

Krsko said. “I cannot sing ordance, but I can paint. I just wantto make people smile.”

Krsko first approached NewBrunswick about the project in2006 and learned that the RaritanRiver Wall was owned by the NewBrunswick Department ofTransportation. After receiving allthe proper permits, Albus Cavuswas able to launch Streets 2k7 thenext year with the strong support ofboth the city and the DOT, he said.

Albus Cavus, with the intentionof developing strong communitiesof interactive art and free expres-sion in public places, has spreadthroughout the country as well asinto other countries such asCanada, Australia, China and theUnited Arab Emirates, Krsko said.

“It is interesting to visit citieslike Dubai, which have been builtout of nothing, and have enor-mous, beautiful buildings, but nosidewalks, no places to chill out-side and enjoy the day,” he said.

Along with other members ofAlbus Cavus, Krsko learned abouturban planning in these foreigncountries and presented his ownideas on how to create strongercommunities with more art.

The collective also receivedthe opportunity to paint a wall inBeijing before the SummerOlympics and paint the largestmural in Washington, D.C., alongwith 45 other artists, he said.These events, as well as many oth-ers, are co-sponsored by grantsfrom the government, differentprivate and public corporationsand generous private donors.

“There aren’t enough Rutgersstudents coming out,” he said.“Tell everyone you know tocome; nobody has a bad timeafter they come here.”

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Artists make their mark on River Walk

Artists came out to paint murals Saturday at the Raritan River Art Walk as a means to express themselves while also beautifying public spaces. The Art Walk runs the length of the Raritan River.

the bus when other peo-ple get on! Just standingthere stubbornly not mov-ing is delaying the buseven longer.Furthermore, if you arewaiting to get on the bus,wait for the people to getof f the bus before yourudely shove your way

through. Also, concerning getting on the bus,do not push your way on the bus. Although thebuses seem more crowded this year than everbefore please keep your elbows to yourself andrefrain from using other students as steppingstools to get on.

As Rutgers students, our other favorite modeof transportation is walking (since riding yourbike in New Brunswick is a death wish). Sowhile enjoying a stroll through these wonder-

fully urban streets consider theother people who are sharing thesidewalks. Walking down thestreet with a group of yourfriends should not be a game ofred rover with the pedestrianswalking in the other direction.When you and your friend cometo the pivotal point where youmay need to share the sidewalkfor two seconds of your epicallyimportant social life, do just that,SHARE! File behind each other

to make room for someone, do not force them towalk around you of f the sidewalk. Driving rulesstill apply. Stay to the right. Do not aimlesslywander back and forth making it impossible forothers to pass you. And if you are walkingtoward someone going the opposite way itwould be a lot easier and much less awkward ifyou both just stayed on the right side. If you dohappen to bump into someone, here is athought: apologize! It takes one second, and it iscommon courtesy. Also, if you are walkingthough a door and there is someone behindyou, hold the door open for them. I know thatchivalry is dead so I am not saying hold it openand let them through in front of you, but do notjust let the door slam in their face. Apparentlycollege students can do calculus and biology,

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A lthough Rutgers insome places maynot be the most

beautiful campus, it is still agreat one. The student bodyneeds to remember that andrespect our campus and ourfellow students. So my arti-cle today has to do with dis-respectful things that peo-ple do everyday. Now I wish that I was writing thisarticle just to the freshmen or newly transferredstudents who may not know any better, but, unfor-tunately, this is to all of the people who frequentour campus.

Some things to keep in mind are that becausewe go to a school that tries to be as environ-mentally friendly as possible, do not litter!When you get The Daily Targum in the begin-ning of the day and there happens to be aninsert in it, do not throw it on theground. I know that it must be soincredibly hard to hold on to thatsingle piece of paper for four sec-onds to at least throw it in thegarbage, but maybe you can giveit a shot. Also just because youleave your Targum on the busdoes not mean you are not litter-ing either. Once again the extracouple of minutes you wouldhave to hold on to that paperwould really be a hassle, butthink about the hassle you are causing the work-er who has to clean the bus, or maybe the per-son who slips on that paper because it is all overthe floor. The College Avenue Greening Projectwill not make a dif ference if the student bodycontinues to trash the campus.

Something else for all you bus riders: talkingon the phone while on the bus is rude. No onewants to hear about your drunken mistake fromthe night before, the fight you are having withyour boyfriend, or the time and type of doctor’sappointment you have. More importantly DONOT talk on speakerphone. It is bad enough Ihave to hear you, I do not also need to hear theother obnoxious human you are on the phonewith. Secondly, when you enter a near-emptybus, do not sit next to one of the two people whoare already on there. Also if the bus is nowstanding room only, move toward the center of

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with double doors, donot all try to file out

through one door; useboth sides. ”

Video game “hero”in reality zero

T he creators of the popular Comedy Central cartoon “SouthPark” usually have stereotypes or critiques of Americanculture at the time on the money when their episodes

debut. The episode entitled “Guitar Queer-o” makes fun of thehysteria that surrounds the popular video game “Guitar Hero”and the amount of time and energy young children put into get-ting really good at the game. The goal of the two characters Stanand Kyle is to break something like a million points and get intowhat would be a VH1 “Behind the Music” saga of the trials andtribulations it took to break that million points. It also made funof the big deal people made about the skill it took to play thegame and how Stan’s father’s ability to play the actual guitar wasshunned by all the kids. The moral of the episode was that thewhole ordeal was just plain stupid because it is, in fact, just avideo game.

The writers of South Park must have been looking into a crystalball. A 12-year-old from Everett, Wash., scored 1,019,682 points onthe game. “I never expected to break a world record on somethingthat is kind of important. Maybe something kind [of] small but notthis big,” Dylan Phifer said. Besides getting himself a spot in theGuinness Book of World Records, he also earned a top story onCNN’s website. Apparently, it is a big deal when a child puts in timeand energy to get good at a video game. Even his mother wasimpressed because of his accomplishment; she goes on about herson’s natural ability to focus in on things that allowed him to score sohigh. In case you think Dylan’s talents might transfer over to a realguitar, think again. When asked about his actual musical abilities headmitted to being unsuccessful at playing the real guitar, noting whatheld him back was that “it had strings and notes and stuff.” He’ssticking to the plastic Xbox controller — where he really shines.

The fact that this story was one of the most popular on CNNshows a lot about the skills American society is glorifying in itsyouth. Video games are supposed to be a leisure activity; they aresomething people do to take a break from reality and relax. Whenpeople start putting time and energy that could be put toward some-thing more productive into games, the attitude toward living in a vir-tual reality needs to be checked. It seems like the culture of childrenthese days is no longer going outside to play or using your imagina-tion to break away from real life: It is now begging parents for thelatest video game system and spending all your free time dedicatedto mastering a game.

Phifer’s mother brags about her son’s ability to focus really hard ona skill. That being said, one would think that his focus should havebeen put on putting effort into actually playing the guitar. It makes youwonder how much time he actually spent trying to play and practicereal guitar. Because he did not like the “strings and notes and stuff,” itmay be safe to assume that he tried pressing on the strings once tomake a chord and then gave up because it was too hard. He has theability to focus on what he wants to focus on, which is a video gamethat offers him the instant gratification of being a musician withoutactually having to do any work. Sure, it is impressive that someonecould master such a high score, but it is sad to think of how much timeand practice he put into playing a video game. What is even worse ishis mother encouraging this behavior.

There is nothing wrong with playing video games, but like every-thing else it must be done in moderation. There are wide varieties ofgames available for people to play and a lot of times it is hard for peo-ple to separate reality from fantasy. Video games have a way of takingover people’s lives because they are striving to achieve the highestscore. People play them because they enjoy them but the amount oftime spent trying to perfect their skill should be moderated. In thecase of “Guitar Hero,” people should be more impressed by a 12-year-old boy who can play these same guitar riffs on an actual guitar andnot just a piece of plastic. Just because you can memorize the green,red, yellow pattern and play Iron Maiden songs on “expert” doesn’tmean you can abandon any other possibilities of skills that will actu-ally benefit you in life.

Phifer has gotten his 15 minutes of fame by achieving the 1,019,682points, but what will he have after that? Hopefully this is not the onlything that he spends his time doing. Parents should be encouragingother skills — productive ones, like building teamwork skills throughsports or actually picking up an instrument and learning how to play.If they don’t, their children will be subject to getting lost in the fanta-sy world of instant gratification that video games give. People play“Madden” to be a football star and “Guitar Hero” to be a rock star, butwhat about actually trying to do these things before giving up and giv-ing into virtual reality? A balance must be found between these twoworlds in order to not be taken over by the fantasy.

“If people want to sing in public, they sing. If people want to dance in public, they dance.

I cannot sing or dance, but I can paint. I just want to make people smile.”

Peter Krsko, Albus Cavus co-founder, on how painting on public buildings is perceived as damaging

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is still a divider, no matter howinvisible it has become to theuntrained eye. Although blackpeople are allowed to go to thesame schools, shop in the samesupermarkets and play on thesame streets as their whitecounterparts, many of them arestill suffering from the effectsof centuries of economic andsocial exclusion from opportu-nities that have existed forwhites. As a result, they cannotafford to live in the same neigh-borhoods. This means they can-not attend the same high-quali-ty schools or play on the safestreets of their white peers.One needs to look no fartherthan New Jersey in order to seethat racial inequality survivesdespite the Civil Rights Acts of1964 and 1965. Schools inCamden are predominatelyblack and poor, and have a grad-uation rate of 51 percent.Schools in Moorestown areonly 10 miles away and predom-inately white and wealthy, witha graduation rate of 98 percent.One can also compare Newarkto Summit, and Manhattan toEast New York, and one seesthat race is still a divider.

The author claims thatbecause “we have risen abovethe … issue of unequal rightsand undeserved discrimination,we should collectively dissolveour differences and focus on thegrounds of our shared humani-ty.” By “we,” of course, it is clearthat the author more specificallymeans blacks who just cannotseem to let go of past racism. Asmuch as I wish that blacks couldovercome the social and eco-nomic exclusion that they cur-rently face — and that is a result

of past exclusion — through athinking exercise in which theyfocus on their “shared humani-ty” with whites, the truth is racewill matter, no matter how muchthey focus on their sharedhumanity. We do not live in apost-racial society.

Unequal rights and blatantracism are no longer the majorissues of race in American socie-ty; instead, an unequal opportuni-ty structure has become thedefining aspect of racial differ-ence. And although our nation is

no longer a nation of blatantracists, it is a nation in whichmany individuals feel no remorsefor blatantly ignoring the prob-lem of racial inequality. Many feelperfectly content five minutesafter passing by the homelessblack man who sleeps on thesidewalk next to the trash bagsthat contain all of his clothes.Many feel no urgent need to pushtheir elected representatives toimprove the conditions of low-quality schools where youngminority children walk throughmetal detectors every morning inorder to read out-of-date text-books from 1996 under theinstruction of teachers who havealready given up on them andpass them through the education-

al system, not for their academicachievements but only for simplybeing quiet. Few deeply questionwhy black people make up nearly40 percent of the U.S. prison pop-ulation but only 13 percent of thenation’s total population; andeven fewer ever wonder why theUniversity’s faculty is not nearlyas diverse as its student body, atruth reported to The DailyTargum Wednesday in the articletitled “Faculty diversity not onpar with student demographics.”

It is clear that the racism thatplagued the ancestors of blacksin the form of economic andsocial exclusion continues tohave real-world effects today. Itis for this reason that I must crit-icize Greenfield’s criticism ofthe “black people who refuse tolet go of racism that plaguedtheir ancestors” as naïve. It isalso clear that although theproblem of racial inequality per-sists, the vast majority of whiteAmerican citizens have littleknowledge about it and are apa-thetic about learning more inorder to solve it, even when con-fronted with the most blatantexamples of it in their very ownstates. For this reason, I mustcriticize the author’s call onblack people to focus on theirshared humanity with whitepeople in order to moveAmerica into a more positivedirection as ignorant. We needto truly address the problems ofracial inequality and weakopportunity structures in poorblack neighborhoods instead ofasking blacks to ignore them.Instead of criticizing blacks forvoicing their complaints aboutthe social and economic exclu-sion that they continue to face,

we should criticize the broaderAmerican public that votes fornot learning about and making ita national priority to address theinequalities that continue toplague many black people andother racial minorities.

As you read this, you maywonder, ‘What can I do to learnabout and help address racialinequality?’ I would suggest thatyou take a course or two in thesocial sciences during your timeat the University in order to gaina richer understanding of racialinequality than popular explana-tions will offer you. Your time atthe University of fers you aunique opportunity to under-stand the world around you, soplease take advantage of it.Furthermore, I would urge youto join organizations that seek toaddress the social and economicexclusion that black Americansface, such as Teach for Americaand New York City TeachingFellows; supporting organiza-tions that seek to advance thelives of poor racial minorities,such as the United NegroCollege Fund and theUniversity’s very own EqualOpportunity Fund, once youactually have an income; and byelecting representatives and sup-porting policies that seek toaddress the social and economicexclusion that cause racialinequality in the first place. Thequestion is not whether or notyou can make a dif ference;rather, the question is whetheryou want to.

Ben West is a Rutgers Collegesenior majoring in political sci-ence. He can be reached at benwest@eden.rutgers.edu.

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but the double door seems tobe a problem. If you are tryingto enter or exit a room withdouble doors, do not all try tofile out through one door; useboth sides. Once again I knowhow dif ficult this can be buttake a deep breath, give it atry, and you will be surprisedhow well it works.

Trust me I could go onabout the rude things the peo-ple on this campus do, but I donot have an entire page. Askyour friends what bothersthem around campus and Iguarantee it will be along thesame lines. So the next timeyou go to class, pick up theTargum, or get on a bus thinkabout what you are doing.Think about if it would botheryou if you saw someone doingwhat you are doing. Also inthis self-centered world, take asecond to think of the peoplearound you and how maybeyour life is not more importantthan theirs.

Anna Norcia is a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences senior majoring innutritional sciences. Her col-umn, “Just the Facts,” runs onalternate Mondays.

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Blatant ignorance: Racism alive in new form

I n Wednesday’s edition ofThe Daily Targum, JennaGreenfield of fered her

thoughts on race in Americansociety in her article, “Racismalive in a new form.” What trou-bles the author is that “someblack people refuse to let go ofracism that plagued theirancestors, channeling theirresentment toward white citi-zens in what is easily identifiedas racism.” She believes thatalthough there are still a coupleof racists in America, “we haverisen above the … issue ofunequal rights and undeserveddiscrimination, [so] we shouldcollectively dissolve our dif fer-ences and focus on the groundsof our shared humanity.”

I agree with the author thatthe country has made signifi-cant strides, having long aban-doned the institution of slaveryand the Jim Crow laws that fol-lowed it in order to blossominto a society where blacks andwhites are not legally prohibit-ed from attending the sameschools, shopping in the samesupermarkets and playing onthe same streets. I also agreethat it is unfair to characterizethe vast majority of whiteAmericans as being one and thesame with Eugene “Bull”O’Connor, the poster boy ofU.S. racism who fought againstintegration by using fire hosesand police attack dogs againstpeaceful black protestors. Withall this being said, however, Ido believe that race is still anissue in American society. Race

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the form of economic and social exclusion

continues to have real-world effects today.”

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Tough dayputs RU inearly hole

BY KEVIN O’ROURKESTAFF WRITER

The Rutgers men’s golf teamdoes not aspire to be in the middle

of thepack thisseason.But thisw e e k -end at

The McLaughlin in Bethpage, N.Y.,that is precisely where the ScarletKnights found themselves.

RU’s 54-hole tally of 871strokes placed them ninth in the18-team field. Coastal Carolinatook home the title with a five-under par total of 835. Harvard’sGreg Shuman, CoastalCarolina’s Sam Lyons andTowson’s Nyasha Mauchazatied for the individual honors attwo-under par 208.

Seniors James Hilaire andJ.F. Sorbella paced the Knightsat six-over par 216, goodenough for 26th place in the 93-player field.

Freshman Gene Yang bouncedback from a rough first round to fin-ish in 45th. Yang led a solid finalround effort for RU by turning in aone-under par 69. Senior JimmyArbes struggled after an openinground 70 and placed in a tie for54th. Sophomore Andrew Turskyrounded out the scoring for RU in86th place at 23-over par 233.

Any expectations the teamhad of winning the event weredashed Friday after the tourney’sopening 36 holes.

The Knights finished the day16th, 30 strokes behind first-place UNC Wilmington.

Hilaire and Arbes each turnedin first round scores of even paror better, enabling them to pacethe squad at five-over par.

Underclassmen Yang andTursky regressed after turning instrong showings in the RutgersInvitational victory.

Yang struggled to an openinground 78 before salvaging a 10-over par day one total with a solidsecond-round score of 72.

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RUTGERS 871NINTH PLACE

Scarlet Knights off to worst start in school history BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON

SENIOR WRITER

Down but not out, the Rutgersfield hockey team entered yester-day’s game against Maine still in

s e a r c hof itsfirst vic-tory thisseason.

But awin was not in the cards for theScarlet Knights, who fell to theBlack Bears 4-2 after dropping atough Big East matchup Fridayagainst Villanova.

It was not the start the Knightspictured coming off of last year’ssuccessful 14-6 campaign.

The 0-8 record marks the worststart for the team in history.

While the team has tried to keepthe record from affecting them neg-atively, head coach Liz Tchou said itbegan to creep into their minds asthe second half wore on.

“I think the 0-7 took a toll onus today though coming in wewere pretty positive we justweren’t executing,” she said.“Field hockey is all about being

sharp in your skill sets and we’rejust not there; we’re over com-pensating, and that is what hap-pens when you’re sitting thereand wanting it so badly.”

The Knights were on theverge of climbing back into thecontest when senior forwardSarah Dunn recovered a missedpenalty corner opportunity andfired a shot into the goal.

But the Knights’ celebrationwas short lived, as Maine forwardJocelyn Mitchell broke free fromthe Knights’ defenders only aminute later.

Despite having 15 minutes leftin the match, Dunn’s goal was thefinal shot the team would managefor the remainder of the game. Bythe end, RU was outshot 21 to 12.

The Knights unleashed anoffensive barrage against theBlack Bears late in the first peri-od, including a blistering shotthat was turned aside by Mainegoalkeeper Brittany Fleck. Mainewas able to escape the periodwithout letting up a second scoreand the Knights found them-selves unable to carry theirmomentum into the second half.

RU’s momentum was ham-pered by turnovers andunforced errors in the secondhalf as the Knights found them-selves unable to find the samerhythm that they had in the ear-lier part of the game.

“When you start to force itindividually and you start tothink, ‘Well, I’m just going todo it myself,’ that’s not whatRutgers field hockey is allabout,” Tchou said. “You can’thave individual ef for ts outthere; it’s all about how youcan combine with your team-mates and that’s something weneed to understand. It’s aharsh reality that we’re learn-ing right now.”

As difficult as it may be, theKnights must move past thisweekend as they prepare for theirsecond Big East contest Friday athome against Georgetown.

“We’re just looking forward,”said senior back MelissaBowman. “No matter what hap-pens in the game before we justhave to look ahead to the nextgame. The past is the past, andwe’re moving forward.”

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Senior forward Brittany Bybel scored her fifth goal of the seasonin the first half of yesterday’s 4-2 loss to the Black Bears.

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Flannigan leads teamin return to Bronx

BY TYLER DONOHUECONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers women’s crosscountry team followed up last

w e e k -e n d ’ ss e a s o nopeningrace att h e

Fordham Fiasco with a returntrip Saturday to the Bronx.

The Scarlet Knights wereamong 21 college teams compet-ing at the 15th annual IonaCollege Meet of Champions.

The meet was held at VanCortlandt Park, site of the team’sfourth place finish in the Sep. 12season opener.

The Knights tallied 268 pointswhile finishing in 10th place atthe meet, which was won byHarvard. Head coach JamesRobinson said the squad madestrides Saturday.

“We had a good perform-ance going up against rankedteams from Division I, DivisionII and Division III schools,”Robinson said. “We’re gettingreally close to being at full strength.”

Sophomore Kelly Flanniganpaced the Knights in the 6krace with a time of 24:01, goodenough for 26th woman over-all. The Middletown, Conn.,native has been the catalyst forRU so far this season, leadingthe team in each of the first two races.

“Kelly is an outstandingyoung lady,” Robinson said.“She’s really come into her ownover the past year.”

Despite arriving at Rutgers asprimarily a track and field athlete,Flannigan has focused on honingher cross country skills.

“She worked very hard allsummer trying to become agreat cross country runner,”Robinson said. “Her improve-ments are impressive.”

Fellow sophomore KristenJohnson and freshman EliseBrevet finished second andthird for the Knights withtimes of 24:28 and 24:36, respectively.

Looking forward, the Knightstravel to Bethlehem, Pa., Oct. 2 tocompete in the Paul ShortInvitational. The team looks toimprove on its 22nd overall finishat the meet in 2008.

Knights get physical,trounce Friars in OT

BY KIRSTEN NUBERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

With six yellow cards givenout during the game and oneskirmish broken up by the refer-

ees, theR u t g e r smen’s soc-cer team’sg a m eF r i d a ya g a i n s t

Providence proved very physical. The Scarlet Knights fought

every minute for their 2-1 win,and ended the game in the109th minute when sophomoremidfielder Bryant Knibbs’ longthrow from nearly 25 yards outwas headed in by junior mid-fielder Yannick Salmon.

“I think it’s fitness, but wealso have tremendous chemistryand the guys just dug in andfought,” said head coach BobReasso. “When you get to BigEast games, it’s about fighting.”

Both teams played evenlythroughout the first half; eachhad five shots on goal and bothgoalkeepers made two saves.

But Providence (3-2-0, 0-1-0)came out stronger offensively inthe second half and had eightshots on goal to RU’s one. Still,the Knights turned that oneopportunity into a goal.

In the 46th minute, sopho-more forward Ibrahim Kamarascored on an assist by junior mid-fielder Chris Edwards.

And the physical play was evi-dent from the get-go — the teamscombined for 38 fouls.

Providence tied the game 10minutes after RU went in front.True freshman goalkeeper JakeGrinkevich was unable to save ona deflected breakaway.

Providence’s Nick Ciancimanaged a breakaway from hisdefender, and Grinkevich cameoff his line and stopped Cianci’s

first attempt. But the deflectionwent right to Cianci, who head-ed the ball in to tie the game.

“We grew up a lot tonight,”Reasso said. “Maybe that’s what thisteam needed — a big win like this.”

SUCH A PHYSICAL MATCH puta lot of pressure on the team — andno one more so than Grinkevich.

In the first half alone,Grikevich made three saves.

In the 14th minute,Providence’s John Raley shotthe ball to the upper left corner,but Grinkevich was there,deflecting it out of the goal.Two minutes later, the ball wasspeeding to the lower right cor-ner, but Grinkevich saved the team.

Grinkevich went on to maketwo more saves in the second halfand two more in the first overtime.

“We play together for 90minutes and we have to makesure we’re together for those90 minutes,” said Grinkevich,who made six saves total.“Tonight everybody was therefor each other and that was thekey factor.”

Reasso said he felt like theManalapan, N.J., native grew upthis past week.

“Jake learned a lot in the SantaBarbara game,” said Reasso aboutlast week’s west coast trip wherethe Scarlet Knights lost 4-0. “Thatlesson he learned … has carriedover [Friday night]. I thought Jakewas fantastic [Friday], and that’sthe reason we’re staying with him.

SOPHOMORE MIDFIELDERDavid MacVane remained sidelinedwith a leg injury. This is the secondconsecutive game the SouthCarolina transfer has missed.

Sophomore forward GaetanoPanuccio is still struggling witha foot injury, and played foronly two minutes againstUConn on Sunday.

KNIGHTNOTEBOOK

Salmon smokes UConn with pairBY KYLE FRANKO

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Down a goal after 10 minutesand with its goalkeeper lying on theground, the Rutgers men’s soccer

t e a mhad as t e e pm o u n -tain toc l i m b

last night against Connecticut.But a second half brace in the

span of six minutes from juniormidfielder Yannick Salmon gavethe Scarlet Knights a 2-1 victorylast night a Yurcak Field.

“It meant a lot for us [to comeback],” Salmon said. “These aregames last year that we wouldn’thave won and it just goes to showthe experience and maturity thatwe have.”

RU lost freshman goalkeeperJake Grinkevich in the 10thminute after he collided withUConn midfielder Tony Cascio.

Cascio scored on the play, justbeating Grinkevich to the balland poking it into the goal for a 1-0 Husky lead. Grinkevich lay onthe ground for several minutesbefore being carted off the field.

Head coach Bob Reasso saidthat he is not sure on the severityof the injury, and the team will notknow more for until further testsare done.

Sophomore Adam Klinkreplaced Grinkevich and madetwo saves.

The Scarlet Knights equalizedat 63 minutes after UConn’s ToniStahl took down freshman mid-fielder Aly Mazhar in the box.Salmon stepped up to the spotand converted his penalty kick bysending Huskies goalkeeperJosh Ford the wrong way.

“[Yannick] was the best playeron the park bar none,” Reasso said.“I wish I had two Yannicks, but Ionly have one, and I’m enjoyinghaving him. We decided to attacktonight because we were home, andinstead of playing him the back, wepushed him up as a No. 10 and hewas tremendous all night long.”

NICHOLAS BLEW

In a span of six minutes in the second half, sophomore midfielderYannick Salmon put the Knights ahead for good with a pair of goals.

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Salmon’s work paid off againsix minutes later when hepicked up a ball from sopho-more midfielder Nye Winslowand cut across the field beatingtwo defenders. Salmon fired alow shot that caught Fordwrong-footed and gave RU thelead for good.

“I thought it was the bestgame we put together,” Reassosaid. “I didn’t think there wasany doubt that we were the bet-ter team and it’s a shame thatJake’s hurt, but I thought wedeserved it.”

UConn (2-2-2, 1-1-0) presenteda more technical style than theKnights saw two nights earlieragainst Providence.

“You have to credit UConnbecause they are a great teamand a great program,” Reassosaid. “They look to play soccer

and we do better against teamsthat looked to pass the ball andplay soccer rather than just kickthe crap out of the ball.”

RU (4-2-0, 2-0-0) controlledmost of the play, outshootingthe Huskies 15-6. The victoryover UConn gives the Knights a100 percent start to their leaguecampaign — something Reassoknows is invaluable.

“You have to win your BigEast home games,” the 29-yearhead coach said. “We won twover y important home gamesand I’m very proud of the guys.I thought it was our best per-formance of the year thus far.”

But Salmon, the team leaderwith four goals, just keeps plug-ging along.

“I just do what I can for theteam,” Salmon said. “If they needme somewhere, I play.”

BY ALEX JANKOWSKICONTRIBUTING WRITER

PRINCETON — Injuries haveplagued the 16th ranked Rutgerswomen’s soccer team all season,

but aslong asj u n i o rA s h l e yJ o n e sk e e p s

getting touches on the ball, thenthe team has stayed on its feet.

Jones found the back of thenet in the 18th minute and againin the 64th minute of Sundaynight’s 2-0 victory against thePrinceton Tigers.

The goals mark her sixth andseventh of the season, all of whichhave come in the past five games.

“I just take into considerationwhat we learn from film,” Jonessaid. “If it wasn’t for my team-mates, I wouldn’t be able to havethe chances that I get.”

The first goal came while theScarlet Knights (7-1-1) were inthe midst of putting consistentpressure on the Tigers defense.

Redshirt freshman midfield-er Stefanee Pace controlled theball at the top of the 18-yardbox, drawing Princeton defend-ers toward her. When theyarrived, she showed greatvision, flicking the ball with herback heel to Jones who pro-ceeded to enter the Princetonbox unmarked. One on onewith junior goalie Alyssa Pont,Jones whistled a shot past thekeeper into the top left of thePrinceton goal.

Her second strike came intransition when she worked herway down the right side to getone on one once again with Pont.This time the forward kept theball and crossed over the left sideof the field, past the goalkeeper

and tapped the ball into the wideopen net.

While Jones has continuedto score, the RU defense andAll-American goalkeeper ErinGuthrie have continued tokeep their net empty in thefirst half — and in this case,the entire game.

The team is still yet to surren-der a first-half goal against anyopponent this season.

“We knew that there wouldbe space out wide,” said headcoach Glenn Crooks. “In termsof Ashley [Jones], she is aleader on this team; and the factthat she is having all of this suc-cess shows all of her hard workand dedication.”

Princeton (1-4-1) had achance to even the score early inthe second half. However,Guthrie robbed forward MarciPasenello point blank when shesprawled to stop the ball fromscooting past her and into thebottom far corner.

Already the teams all-timeleader in shutouts; this win givesthe Knights netminder her fifthshutout of the season.

Guthrie stood tall in net for theKnights, grabbing hold of count-less crosses that entered her boxvia corner kick or free kick.

The game was played in frontof a filled Roberts Stadium; mostof the crowd took the short tripsouth from New Brunswick andsported red attire.

This game comes two daysafter the Knights lost anotherplay due to injury. DefenderRheanne Sleiman went down latein the 2-1 overtime win overSeton Hall Friday night with anankle sprain.

“It’s just an ankle sprain,”Crooks said. “She definitelycouldn’t go tonight and will bequestionable for our next match.”

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After only three sacks in thefirst two games, the Knights(2-1) sacked the GoldenPanthers five times, includinganother two from sack-leaderJonathan Freeny.

Senior middle linebackerRyan D’Imperio contributedeight tackles and a pick-six in thefourth quarter for his first careertouchdown, and senior right endGeorge Johnson recorded ateam-leading 10 tackles.

“It was a good effort but itwasn’t a complete effort becausewe could have actually finishedthe effort,” Johnson said. “In thethird and fourth quarter theystarted gaining momentum andthey started to come back on us,so we didn’t do a complete efforton defense.”

The RU secondary, featuringsophomore David Rowe in hisfirst career start, continuallyswarmed the ball and preventedthe big play for the first timethis season.

“That was the best game thatthe defense has come out andplayed,” said senior cornerbackDevin McCourty, who had eighttackles. “At the end of the game,we let them back in and we haveto work on that. Two quickscores can really turn a gamearound. Our overall effort andperformance is the best so farthis season.”

The usually turnover-freePaul McCall, the FIU quarter-

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True freshman quarterback Tom Savage exited the Knights’ 23-15 victory Saturday in the fourth quarter after an FIU defensive playerlanded full-force on Savage’s helmet during a tackle. Savage lay motionless for a few moments before jogging crisply off the field.

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Junior Ashley Jones scored both of the Knights’ goals in yesterday’s 2-0 road victory over Princeton,giving her a team-high seven scores on the season. Goalie Erin Guthrie got her fifth shutout of the year.

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While RU has lost four playersthis season due to injuries, theywere glad to get one back.

Sophomore defender AllieHambleton, who missed all ofthe 2008 season with an ACLinjury, returned for her firstgame since she star ted the

entire 2007 season for the Knights.

“It feels great to be back outthere with my team,”Hambleton said.

The Scarlet Knights were ableto avenge the loss they sufferedthe last time they face off against

Princeton, a 5-1 decision inOctober of 2007.

This was RU’s last game againsta non-conference opponent. All 10remaining games will be against BigEast foes, the most tantalizing ofwhich comes on Oct. 9, when No. 14Notre Dame comes to Piscataway.

back, threw two picks on over-thrown balls including redshirtfreshman Khaseem Greene’s firstcareer interception.

All-purpose threat T.Y. Hilton— third in the nation in yardsfrom scrimmage last season —caught two late touchdown pass-es for FIU, finishing the day with80 yards.

“He’s a great player,”McCourty said of Hilton. “He justmade plays all day and as adefense we made sure we sur-rounded him.”

Sophomore Joe Martinek sawthe brunt of the carries onoffense for the second time inthree games. His quiet 121 yardson the game mark a career-high.

“Just thinking about it, it’salmost three years now; it’sbeen awhile,” Martinek said ofhis first 100-yard game atRutgers. “It feels really good tofinally get it, and now we justhave to build on it.”

Knight Note: Schiano saidyesterday in his day-after tele-

conference that Savage was“feeling better.”

“As time passed, things start-ed to clear up,” Schiano said.“We’ll keep a close eye on him …

It’s hard to tell if it was his hipor his head hitting the ground.He doesn’t know which one sowe have to chalk it up to it was agood hit.”

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Many questions left unanswered after 100 games

O ne hundred games intohis Rutgers footballcoaching career, Greg

Schiano has brought a lot ofchanges to the Banks — for thebetter — and owns one very dis-tinct career milestone.

He is the losingest coach inScarlet Knights history.

But Schiano is also among thelongest tenured, coaching in anera where nothing is measuredas much as victories and estab-lishing a winning culture — thetwo things Schiano said he wouldimplement when he took over forTerry Shea in 2001.

There are many issues peoplehave with Schiano’s tenure, rang-ing from his salary to the expan-sion of Rutgers Stadium to hissheer coaching decisions, and thiscolumn is sure to draw the ire ofthe many anti-Schiano opinionsout there. But the bottom line isthat Schiano managed to makethe University football programrelevant again, and that is some-thing that cannot be disputed.

“Every year somethingchanges,” said senior cornerbackDevin McCourty. “You always geta different team, but coachSchiano always sticks to what wedo here at Rutgers and tries toget the team and the young guysplaying how we play here.”

Now 100 games in, Schianocontinues to stick by the samemorals and ideals that brought inplayers such as Brian Leonardand Mike Teel.

Teel, even though he wasnowhere close to a prize recruit,mentioned to me toward the endof last season that the first thing

body,” Freeny said. “We just try tomotivate each other. When I gotmy sack I just went up to Alex[Silvestro] and George [Johnson]and said, ‘I got my first one, nowwho’s next?’”

In the third quarter, the RUdefense got to FIU quarterbackPaul McCall on consecutive plays.

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After making his first career interception in Rutgers’ 23-15 win overFlorida International Saturday, redshirt freshman safety KhaseemGreene described the sequence as a ‘dream come true.’

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One hundred games into his Scarlet Knights coaching career, head coach Greg Schiano owns 48 winsafter pulling Rutgers out of the basement of Division I football and creating a culture in Piscataway.

MATTHEW STEIN

Mind of Stein

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Junior defensive end Jonathan Freeny leads the Scarlet Knights withfour sacks after recording another two against Florida International.

Schiano said upon his arrival atTeel’s house was “You are going toget your degree.” His values,believe in them or not, stress muchmore than just play on the field.

A sign in the team meetingroom reads “T.B.A.” (Trust.Belief. Accountability) and“F.A.M.I.L.Y.” hangs on a bannerover the practice fields adjacentto Rutgers Stadium.

Believe in his preaching or not— which for the most part, I donot — Schiano will be the first totell you: It’s not just a footballteam. It’s a culture.

“I didn’t realize it was,” he said ofSaturday’s game being his 100th.“That explains why I have more grayhair on the sides of my head now.”

I don’t buy into that as much assome do, but I also try to be as fair

as possible when assessingSchiano’s first 100 games. Factsare facts.

After all, this is his ninth yearat the helm of the Knights, andwith the exception of the 2006run to the Texas Bowl, his bestrecord has been 8-5. Includingthe 2006 campaign, RU has wonthree straight bowl games buthas come up short of a Bowl

Championship Series bowltwice, each time by one game orone play.

The bigger question is howmuch farther Schiano can takethis program.

Recruiting has improved expo-nentially each year, and that isundeniable. But there is a grow-ing restlessness as people losepatience in the program, wonder-ing when that big breakthroughor BCS title is going to come.

The media loves RU. Six nation-ally televised games highlight the2009 season and the University hasplayed multiple night games thelast three seasons.

Ultimately, a lot rests on cap-turing the attention, andhearts, of the city of New York.The Empire State Buildingshone scarlet for the Louisvillevictory in 2006, but the backpages of the New York papershave been largely RU-free eversince. It’s just not a traditionalcollege football town, and thatmay have to change for Rutgersto continue to get nationalrecognition as ESPN bores ofshowing Knights games.

Schiano is quick to tell youabout his visions of a third deckon Rutgers Stadium, nationalchampionships and establishingRU as a true football power-house. Controversy over salariesand stadium expansion aside, hehas without question been thebest thing to happen to this pro-gram in decades.

He has yet to bail forMichigan, Penn State or Miami.He says he never will. As for 100games, it’s just another notch onthe stepladder as he tries to makeRutgers more relevant on thenational level. Schiano knows hestill has a long way to go.

Personal accomplishmentsbe damned.

— Matthew Stein accepts comments and criticism atsteinma@eden.rutgers.edu

Silvestro and senior tackleBlair Bines took down McCall fora one-yard loss before Silvestroand senior end George Johnsoncombined for another sack.

Senior linebacker and captainRyan D’Imperio added a sack fora nine-yard loss.

REDSHIRT FRESHMAN SAFE-TY Khaseem Greene, seeing moreplaying time in the absence ofinjured sophomore Pat Kivlehan,recorded his first career intercep-tion in the first quarter.

Greene caught the over-thrown pass at RU’s 46-yardline before his 32-yard returnput the ball just outside of the redzone.

“Feeling the rush of thecrowd when I caught it wassomething I’ve always dreamedabout,” Greene said. “To behonest, I was looking for theend zone. Any time I get thechance, I’m going for the endzone because those opportuni-ties don’t come around a lot.”

It was also a big day forsophomore cornerback DavidRowe, who earned his firstcareer star t and faced of fagainst high school teammateand best friend, FIU backupquarterback Wayne Younger.

“It was real nice to see him outthere and actually play againsthim, because in high school weplayed together in football, bas-ketball and baseball,” Rowe said.

After a 13-yard scramble byYounger, the Cocoa, Fla.,natives exchanged wordsbefore returning to their side-lines. Younger played threedrives while McCall was injuredon the sidelines.

“I wanted to get a lick onhim; we had been talking aboutthis all summer,” Rowe said. “Ijust told him it was a nice run,but it wasn’t enough for thefirst down. They still had topunt the ball.”

HEAD COACH GREG Schianocontinued his effort to find the

best offensive line, giving sopho-more Desmond Wynn his firstcareer start.

Wynn played right guard,splitting time with junior HowardBarbieri. Sophomore Art Forstmoved from his usual right guardposition to the left side.

“We’re just trying to find thebest five,” Schiano said.“[Wynn] is a big, strong, phys-

ical kid who will continue toget better.”

JUNIOR TAILBACK KORDELLYoung saw his first action of theseason, catching two passes for sixyards as a third-down back.

Young led the Knights inrushing last season but kneeinjuries have hampered hisprogress throughout his career.

Senior linebacker Ryan D’Imperio collects his first sack of the season, one of five Rutgers sacks on the day. D’Imperio’s fourth quarter interception return for a touchdown was thedeciding score in the Scarlet Knights’ 23-15 victory over Florida International. The score was the first pick-six in his career on the Banks.

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The crowd at Rutgers Stadiumsaw its life flash before its eyes atthe 13-minute mark of the fourth

q u a r t e rSatur daywhen TomSavage lay

motionless on the 10-yard line.The true freshman quarterback

struggled just to get to that point,taking four sacks and completingjust 11-of-28 passes for 185 yards,

but a head-crunching hit on ascramble up the middle was the laststraw on a hard day’s night.

Though he ran off the field afterthe injury, senior Dom Natalereplaced him at quarterback to fin-ish off the Rutgers football team’s23-15 victory over the FloridaInternational at Rutgers Stadium.

“He got dinged a little bit,” headcoach Greg Schiano said of Savageafter the win. “I think he’s going tobe OK. Right now it’s a little foggy.That’s why he didn’t go back intothe game.”

Natale and senior Jabu Lovelacebailed out the out-of-sync Savagewith their feet, not through the air.

Natale punched the ball in fromtwo yards out on an option-likescramble for the Scarlet Knights’only offensive touchdown of thegame, and Lovelace put together 34yards on three rushing attempts outof the Wildcat style “Jabu Package.”

“It’s been a role I’ve spent four-and-a-half years in, so it’s nothingnew,” Natale said. “It felt good tocontribute and be out there andbe ready.”

Natale’s big play came on a 49-yard completion to wide receiverTim Brown down the middle of thefield, helping the Miami, Fla. nativeexceed the century mark for thesixth time in his career, hauling in131 receiving yards.

“We have two great quarter-backs here,” Brown said of Savageand Natale. “I just told Dom thatyou have to keep going, no matterwhen you get in the game, step up.”

Savage was unavailable after thegame, but Natale said the truefreshman will be fine.

“He’s going to learn,” he said.“He did a good job of handlingstuff. He’s a competitive guy soyou can see him get frustrated …He’ll be fine.”

The RU defense was up to thetask of bailing out the downtroddenoffense, putting together an electricday after two weak appearances tostart off the season with all threelayers of the defense clicking.

The defensive line more thanheld its own against FIU (0-2).

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After the Rutgers football teamallowed Cincinnati quarterback TonyPike to throw virtually uncontested inthe week one rout, the Scarlet Knightsemphasized putting pressure on thequarterback against a spread offense.

For the first time this season,it showed.

“You get aggravated, but you justhave to keep working and working

and working,” said junior defensiveend Jonathan Freeny. “In practice, wejust keep at it and keep getting better.”

For the second consecutivegame, he recorded two sacks, eachtime for a loss of seven yards.

Despite being the second stringdefensive end, Freeny leads theKnights with four sacks this season.

“We definitely have a competi-tion, defensive ends, tackles, every-

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KEY STATS

EXTRA POINTSophomore Joe Martinek rushed 23 times for121 yards against Florida International Satur-day for the first 100-yard rushing performancein his Scarlet Knights’ career. The runningback took more than half of RU’s 41 team car-

ries and averaged 5.3 yards per rush against the Golden Panthers.

PASSINGPAUL McCALL, FIU24-37, 197 YDS, 2 TD

RUSHINGJOE MARTINEK, RU23 CAR, 121 YDS

RECEIVINGTIM BROWN, RU4 REC, 131 YDS

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Pass218234

Rush42

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