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Rutgers Football Team Remains Unbeaten in 2002. see SPORTS page D2
Britney Spears: Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore. see PEOPLE page C3
Out-of-Shape Grad Student Still Has Yet to Get Her FitCheck Card. see HEALTH page P0
VOLUME XXXIII, ISSUE 19
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2002
Area Man Just Needs Some Money For a Train Ride Home
Above: Rondell Winters just needs some change, man.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ Rondell Winters, a 42-yearold Perth Amboy-area maintenance worker, just needs some money for a train ride home, honest. “I was out here driving a friend to the train station and my car broke down,” Winters told assorted Rutgers students walking between classes. “Can you give me a little change so I can catch a train or a bus home? I don’t need too much, please, man.”
“Some of these kids gotta have some change,” Winters said. “I don’t want to have to wait until my car’s fixed. That could be days, and I don’t even know how I’m gonna pay for that!” Students, while feeling sympathy for Winters’ plight, are mostly not willing to help. “I was walking down to Au Bon Pain and this guy comes up to me asking for money,” University College student Todd Helton said. “I didn’t give him any money. I mean, maybe he’s telling the truth, but he just seems like a panhandler. I don’t want to support that.” “Aw, man!” said Winters. “That ain’t right, man. I just need to get home, honest!” This marks the third time that Rondell has had car trouble around Rutgers University. “I don’t know what it is about this place, it must be bad luck or something,” he said. Previously, his car, a 1983 Mercury Mercur, had trouble when it had a “greased shaft.” This problem took 3 weeks for the repairs to be completed. “I don’t need to wait around like that again. But the church does have good food.” Rondell has not been entirely without luck, he said. “There are some kids here who’ll give you some change. I mean ,usually it’s just a few coins or so, which takes a while before I can afford a bottle, er, ticket. But some of the kids will give ya a dollar or more. That’s really cool.”
Above: Michael Jackson (right) with longtime fan Jay-Z
Michael Jackson Still Not Famous RIAA Execs Wring Hands in Frustration NEVERLAND RANCH, CA - An advertising blitz, concert extravaganzas, cameo appearances and a breakfast cereal proved ineffective in restoring Michael Jackson's status as the "King of Pop" as of Tuesday, 2:16 AM. Despite nearly round-the-clock coverage on VH-1, Jackson was unable to shirk his reputation as a child molester and ghoulish plastic-surgery produced monster. Undaunted, music bigwigs promise to continue pumping his barely-glowing star in hopes that they can make another 5 dollars from someone's Altzheimer's disease-affected grandma, who might be convinced that Jackson is still cool.
RU Hillel Blockades President Lawrence in Home
Obscure RU “He must return our Student Newspaper Attempts ancestral meeting place!” Humor Through PISCATAWAY - Rutgers President Lawrence remains blockaded Obvious Parody; Francis in the Presidental Residence by Rutgers No one gets the Hillel. “We will continue this operation until our joke.
ancestral meeting place is returned to us,” said a spokesman for RU Hillel. “We will THE MEDIUM not abide this abomination any longer!” The Entertainment Weekly of The Presidential Residence, sitting high Rutgers University on a hill overlooking the Piscataway valwww.themedium.net ley, was once the meeting place and offices of Rutgers Hillel. However, it was “What, did you think we could taken over by the President’s Office do a decent STATshot?" see THIS PAPER page IG-88
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Above: The Presidential Residence. Inset: President Lawrence, in happier times in recent years following the fire that burned down the former Presidential Residence, which also served to house the Women’s Crisis Center. President Lawrence, effectively in detention, huddled with a few solemn-looking aides in a darkened room, his face illuminated by a flashlight. Water and electricity in his office were out and food supplies were low, said Adam Shapiro, an American volunteer
medic. “We must remember that President Lawrence is not sitting in a monastery. He is surrounded by the armed Presidential Guard,” replied Hillel spokesmen in response to criticism. In his most recent public statement on the matter, President Lawrence reiterated his stance: “I’ll be gull-durned if I’m comin’ outta here! This is MY CRIB!!!”