The Daily Targum 2009-10-14

THE DAILY TARGUM

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Freshman quarterback Tom Savage faces his first real test of the season when the Scarlet Knights take on Big East leaders Pittsburgh Friday night at Rutgers Stadium.

MAN VS. FAT SANDWICHES

Host attempts feat at Grease Trucks given time limit, a new sandwich gets named after the challenger.

“It’s a great thing to give people the opportunity to create their own sandwiches,” Elnaggar said. “I strongly believe if we [are a] success, it’s Rutgers students’ success [also].”

Many of the onlookers said they were avid fans of the show and enthusiastic that the host could finish the sandwiches.

“I think he can do it, I’ve seen some crazy stuff, I think he’s got this,” said School of Arts and Sciences firstyear student Eric Mann.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Tom Nucum said he came out to watch the filming of “Man v.

Food” because he watches the show religiously.

BY HEATHER BROOKHART METRO EDITOR

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“Man v. Food” host Adam Richman holds up five Fat Sandwiches yesterday in front of the RU Hungry Grease Trucks on the College Avenue campus. Richman was taking the “Fat Sandwich Challenge” for the filming of the Travel Channel network show. The episode will premiere in December.

About 100 students skipped class, stood on flower planters, cars and the Grease Trucks yesterday to catch a glimpse of Travel Channel host Adam Richman as the network filmed an episode of the series, “Man v. Food” at the RU Hungr y Grease Truck on the College Avenue campus.

Richman attempted to take the “Fat Sandwich Challenge” — eating five fat sandwiches in 45 minutes, which RU Hungry Grease Truck Owner Ayman Elnaggar said has been attempted by about 250 people in the last five years.

Only 16 were successful, he said.

As the tradition goes, if a person can finish the sandwiches within the

SEE FEAT ON PAGE 4

Christie advisers bank on students to aid campaign

BY CAGRI OZUTURK ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Political strategist for Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie’s campaign Mike DuHaime and Executive Director of the New Jersey Republican Party Dan Centenillo

INDEX UNIVERSITY In honor of domestic violence awareness month, Verizon has teamed with the University to collect old cell phones for donation.

OPINIONS A school in Newark, Del., took the zero-tolerance policy for weapons too far when suspending a 6-year-old boy for bringing in a camping utensil to eat lunch.

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visited student campaign workers for the Christie campaign last night at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

The group of about 20 campaign workers — made up in part by the College Republicans — were phone banking when the two members of the Christie campaign

came by to discuss their importance in the overall strategy for the gubernatorial election.

“We reach out to everybody who has registered and has a history of voting,” DuHaime said. “We use a variety of ways — phone banks, door to door — [and] we’re very active on Facebook, and we try to utilize new

media more than any other Republican campaign has. There is no one way to do it — it’s a combination.”

Phone banking involves calling voters to gauge who they support in the Nov. 3 gubernatorial election.

They talk to voters about topics such as brighter days with Christie, increasing higher education, cut-

ting taxes, keeping business in New Jersey and creating more jobs, DuHaime said.

He spoke about the national attention being paid to the state election.

“New Jersey is a big state in terms of population, but I think that this is

SEE CHRISTIE ON PAGE 4

U. looks out of state to increase revenue, diversity

BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

With insufficient funds to meet the 20 percent increase in financial aid applicants the University saw this year, undergraduate admissions wants to increase the number of out-ofstate and international students to generate more revenue.

Vice President of Enrollment Management Courtney McAnuff said the University is looking to increase the amount by 2 to 3 percent over the next year, an equivalent of 700 to 900 students.

While this is not a large increase, out-of-state and international students — who compose about 9 percent of the undergraduate student body — pay almost double the tuition of in-state students, he said. Accepting more out-ofstate students who do not need aid would significantly increase University revenue.

“That revenue then can go to offset financial aid for needy New Jersey students,” McAnuff said. “Right now we’re real-

SEE REVENUE ON PAGE 4

ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

The Board of Governors discusses the 20 percent increase in financial aid applicants at yesterday’s meeting in Winnants Hall on the College Avenue campus. To balance the increase, Admissions is looking for more out-of-state and international students to produce revenue.

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Potential privacy invasion infiltrates public policy

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Privacy concerns at the University may lead to the implementation of a policy prohibiting secretive recording of conversations.

The policy would address instances where an individual had no knowledge of being taped or recorded, said Director of Student Conduct Ave Pollak.

“We’ve recognized that people have found that their privacy has been

invaded in one way or another, and it has come to our attention,” she said.

“We’re trying to address it by having it in the policy.”

The policy would apply anytime someone would have the expectation of privacy, Pollak said.

“We’ve developed some language to include in the policy to address what we think is something that needs to be updated,” she said. “It has to go through several reviews. It will also have to go

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Verizon, U. initiative calls on students to drop off hope

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Just in time for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Verizon Wireless is expanding an on-campus cell phone-recycling program that will benefit survivors of domestic violence throughout October.

The program, called UHopeLine, is partnering with the School of Social Work to install collection bins in six new locations, said Judith Zenowich, director of development at the School of Social Work.

Through U-HopeLine, donated phones will be refurbished and given to local shelters and agencies to distribute to survivors of domestic violence, with 3,000 pre-paid minutes, which can be renewed each year, said Verizon Wireless spokesman David Samberg.

Older wireless phones are fully dismantled and recycled in an environmentally friendly way.

“The phones get used either way in a good way, towards benefiting survivors of domestic violence,” Zenowich said.

The proceeds from the recycling are used to provide cash grants to shelters and non-profits serving survivors of domestic

violence in the New York metro area, Samberg said.

Recipients of the new cell phones could use them for seeking employment, legal counsel, daycare services and personal use, he said. The phones may also allow survivors to elude abusers who may be tracking them.

“The program lets survivors use wireless technology to get their lives back in order,” Samberg said. “You need a phone number for getting a job. With their own cell phone, women in these situations do not have to give a shelter’s number when asked for contact information.”

Wireless phones, batteries, chargers and accessories in any condition can be dropped off in bins located at the Cook Campus Center, Livingston Student Center, Winants Hall on the College Avenue campus and at the Graduate School of Social Work building at 536 George Street. This is in addition to bins already installed at the Busch and Douglass Campus Centers, Zenowich said.

Permanent collection points will also be made available at Rutgers-Newark and RutgersCamden campus centers, making the recycling program accessible to more than 50,000 students and

more than 6,000 faculty and staff members at the University, she said. Smaller cardboard UHopeLine boxes are also set up in many administrative buildings across campus.

Verizon Wireless donates 10,000 to 15,000 pre-paid phones to domestic violence shelters

“We’re a cell phone company. The thinking is to do what you know to help people ... ” DAVID SAMBERG Verizon Wireless Spokesperson

and agencies each year, as well as money to local advocacy organizations, big and small, that focus on domestic violence prevention and awareness, Samberg said.

The University was the first to institute the U-HopeLine program last October, an expansion of Verizon Wireless’ national HopeLine program, Zenowich said.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Casey

Friedman said she would donate a phone to the program.

“It’s a good cause,” she said.

In addition to collecting cell phones, U-HopeLine established a $100,000 endowed scholarship to graduate students seeking their Master of Social Work at the University who specialize in violence against women and children, said Rachel Schwar tz, a program coordinator at the School of Social Work’s Center on Violence Against Women and Children. Scholarships of $1,500 were awarded to three students in both 2008 and 2009.

The Center on Violence Against Women and Children has also worked with student groups on used cell phone drives and hopes to do more community action projects with campus organizations this year, Schwartz said.

U-HopeLine collected 500 phones last year on the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus and hopes to increase that number with the expansion of the six additional boxes and the addition of boxes on the Newark and Camden campuses, Zenowich said.

Phones are picked up and counted from all collection points

twice a month and sent to Verizon Wireless at no charge to the University, she said.

Mason Gross senior Dennis Budeshein said the program is for a good cause, but he does not have a cell phone he could donate.

“If I had it, I would. It’s just I don’t have one to give and I don’t have money to buy a new one,” he said.

HopeLine also supported direct ser vices to victims of domestic violence at the University through a $5,000 contribution to Sexual Assault Ser vices and Crime Victim Assistance’s general operating fund, Director Ruth Anne Koenick said.

HopeLine was created in 1999 as part of Verizon Wireless. The New Jersey branch has worked with, supported or is in contact with ever y domestic violence advocacy and service group in the New York metro area, Samberg said.

“We’re a cell phone company,” he said. “The thinking is to do what you know to help people, and helping domestic violence survivors has been a perfect fit for us for over 10 years.”

— Mary Diduch contributed to this article.

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REVENUE: U. stations recruiters in 26 foreign cities continued from front ly struggling with the loss of state dollars to get sufficient money to help needy students.”

University President Richard L. McCormick said the increase in non-N.J. students provides both financial and intellectual advantages for the University.

“They help support the education of Rutgers students,” he said. “They pay full tuition and the tuition they pay is more than [what] New Jersey kids pay.”

McCormick said their presence in the classroom also improves students’ education.

“Out-of-state and international students bring … a lot of diversity and experience from different parts of the world and different cultures,” he said.

McAnuff said the admissions office is looking to add to the diversity of incoming classes to mirror the world.

“We’re focusing a lot on the international students, more so than domestic and out-of-state [students],” he said.

The University has recruiters in 26 foreign cities, primarily in the Middle East, South America and Asia, McAnuff said.

U NIVERSITY Despite these benefits, McCormick said the University is not looking to change the mission of the University, which is to continue to provide for N.J. students.

“Right now, [more than] 90 percent of our undergraduate students are from New Jersey, and while that percentage may change a bit in the years ahead, I’m confident Rutgers’ primary educational mission will be focused on men and women from our own state,” he said.

The University’s percentage of out-of-state students is significantly lower than that of other public state universities, McAnuff said.

Penn State’s and the University of Connecticut’s undergraduate student bodies are

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M about 28 percent out-of-state, he said. The University of Michigan is close to 30 percent out-of-state.

“We’re not even in the ballpark,” McAnuff said.

He said as a flagship public university, it is important to represent the world and the rest of the countr y, but access and resources for N.J. students come first.

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Sarah Festa of Scranton, Pa. said she would like to see more non-N.J. students like her on campus.

But Festa, who does not receive any financial aid, said the University should increase aid for these students.

“I pay so much and everybody around me doesn’t,” she said.

Festa said the University is a great place for out-of-state students, but it comes with a price.

“The school is good if you look at it as a student, but if you’re going to have to pay for it by yourself or mostly on your own, I don’t necessarily think financially or monetarily it’s the best school,” she said.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Jenny Butryn, an instate student, said increasing outof-state students has pros and cons.

“I guess it’s good to bring in revenue,” she said. “Then again, I love how Rutgers is all about New Jersey and everyone [is] from New Jersey.”

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port, said State Chair for the Youth Coalition Tali Rasis. These efforts will also help them during “Get Out the Vote,” which will happen in a few weeks.

“The student coalition [is] doing a lot of grassroots effort, making calls to people and talking about Christie, putting up lawn signs, going to different events and rallying for Chris,” said Rasis, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

She said they are in the stages of planning a rally, but nothing is concrete yet.

The phone bankers are in competition with Seton Hall University and Richard Stockton University to see who will get the most phone calls, she said. This week, Rutgers is winning, but this might change.

Students were excited to see the members of the campaign, said President of the College Republicans Ron Holden.

“I’ve been in [DuHaime’s] class, and he teaches us that it’s extremely important to volunteer,” said Holden, a Rutgers College senior. “He came out here, and he is motivating our guys to make the phone calls for the Christie campaign. It’s extremely important as this race tightens [and] we make sure we get out as many people as we can to vote for Chris Christie.”

DuHaime teaches a political science class on Douglass campus together with Corzine ’09 Campaign Manager and Deputy Chief of Staff Maggie Moran.

“I have a soft spot for Rutgers, because I’m an alum,” DuHaime said. “I also teach here, and that’s one of the reasons I wanted to come by tonight and thank all the students in my class who are working here to phone bank.”

It is very effective to phone bank, DuHaime said. Volunteers may not necessarily see its value, but when they’re more involved and see the details of the campaign, it becomes easier to appreciate its importance, he said.

“Christie’s going to win,” he said. “Chris Christie offers change that New Jersey needs, and I think he offers promise to people to find jobs, to make the state a better place again, which have been unfriendly to taxpayers and made it harder to find jobs.” slick, and they know they’re doing stuff wrong so they don’t want to be recorded, for good reason,” Reynolds said.

Reportage gained through secretive recording comes at a cost though, he said. Reporters and editors need to find different or better ways to excavate information.

“There’s a long histor y of news organizations getting in trouble by not telling people when they’re recording,” Reynolds said. “If you’re going to go down that road there’s no way of coming back. I think you throw your ethics under the bus if you do that.”

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request to the Grease Trucks one night.

“What I wanted the whole week was chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks [and] fries, but separately [that] would have cost $10 or $12, [and I] didn’t have $10 or $12,” he said. “But I did have enough for a ‘Fat Cat.’” Butler said he asked the employees at the Grease Trucks if they could make a sandwich with the aforementioned ingredients.

He said the next 10 people ordered the same thing, and the truck sold 50 “Fat Darrells” that first night.

“It’s been the number one seller since,” Butler said.

He said he has been on other TV shows on the Food Network and the Travel Channel, such as “Extreme Pig Outs.” Butler said he was there yesterday to coach Richman through the challenge.

“We have a strategy going; he’s trying to pick things that aren’t [too heavy]. … He’s going to get something a little thinner, so he should be able to pull this off,” he said. “He hasn’t eaten all day, he’s been training for it, so he should be good.”

As Richman finished the sandwiches, Elnaggar ran them out to

him from the Grease Trucks one by one, still hot from the kitchen.

Elnaggar said the Travel Channel also came to the Grease Trucks to film a different show last year but there was not a large crowd turnout because it was during winter break.

Despite students not being present at last year’s filming, he said the episode’s airing helped bring in a lot of business.

“It feels real good that our food can be on a Rutgers campus,” Elnaggar said. “It feels like a family and mom’s kitchen.”

Despite cheers and shouts from the crowd encouraging Richman to take “one more bite,” after consuming four fat sandwiches, the host exceeded the 45minute time limit and failed to complete the challenge.

Students stayed after the challenge to ask Richman questions on camera as part of the “press conference” portion of the episode.

The host also took photos and signed autographs with students.

The New Jersey episode of “Man v. Food,” will premiere on Dec. 9 on the Travel Channel, according to their official Web site.

more about New Jersey,” DuHaime said. “A lot of people want to figure out what this means nationally.”

Being a big state, people are watching, and there are only two governors’ races this year, he said.

“There is a disproportionate amount of attention being paid to it, but it’s mostly about trying to figure out what’s going on here,” he said.

Centenillo, who formerly worked for the campaigns of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif., and former Gov. Mitt Romney, RMass., spoke about the strategy to win New Jersey.

“In New Jersey, you have to learn to campaign all over again because it’s like no other state,” Centenillo said. “The strategy for us is to monopolize the energy that’s out there. We’ve been seeing volunteers come into our campaign that are Democrats and Independents as well.”

It is less about party lines and more about policy, he said. They had a lot of Democrat and Independent volunteers coming to work for them.

“A lot of people like Chris’ reputation as a crime-fighter and corruption buster, but then they don’t like Corzine, and it makes for a perfect storm,” Centenillo said.

The campaigns used to be about where people lived and engaging voters in regions rather than individual voters, but now it is more focused, he said.

The people they target either do not like Corzine or are interested in Christie.

“We engage in micro-targeting,” Centenillo said. “Now, it’s more about figuring out what they do, what they like, like if they are buying Coors Light, they’re Republican; if they’re buying tofu, they’re Democrats.”

The makeup of party lines is somewhat even when you look at the breakdowns that micro-targeters give the campaign, he said.

There is a lot of variety in who to look for, and Spanish scripts are available to phone bankers as well.

The students call Middlesex County citizens to get their sup-

telephone conversation unless one party in the conversation consents.

Violation of the law can result in a civil lawsuit for damages by an injured party, according to the Citizen Media Law Project.

University Professor Ron Miskoff said the policy could apply to incidences where a student took an unflattering cell phone video of another student and later put it up online without consent.

But Miskoff also explained the benefits of undercover reporting.

“Usually when you do reporting surreptitiously, it’s because you’re trying to reveal something that wouldn’t be available other-

wise,” he said. “A journalist shouldn’t use surreptitious recording except as a last resort. Undercover reporting has yielded some of our most important public issues.”

University Professor Bruce Reynolds said people should have the right to know when they’re being recorded.

“I think that’s the ethical thing to do,” he said.

Reynolds said he supported the implementation of a policy regarding secretive recording but wasn’t sure how much it would accomplish.

“I think that a policy is a good idea, but I think in today’s day and

age, where pretty much everybody’s got a cell phone or a recorder, that horse is out of the barn; you can’t get it back in there,” he said.

School of Arts and Science firstyear student Nicole Adamo stressed the importance of privacy.

“Everyone has their right to their own privacy,” she said.

Adamo said she didn’t see any need for undercover investigative projects at the University.

“It’s not necessary,” she said.

Reynolds said secretive recording would always have a certain appeal.

“Sometimes the people [that journalists] deal with are pretty

ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Darrell Butler, the namesake of the “Fat Darrell” sandwich, stands yesterday with “Man v. Food” host Adam Richman at the RU Hungry Grease Trucks on the College Avenue campus. Butler coached Richman through the “Fat Sandwich Challenge.”

FEAT: Butler, tired of “Fat Cat,” creates “Fat Darrell” continued from front “It’s a challenge that I’ve never actually seen attempted,” he said. “It’s good to see someone take it down, and hopefully in the future I can eat a ‘Fat Adam.’”

School of Arts and Sciences senior Stephen Kropa said he saw Richman Saturday outside the Homecoming game.

“It was really fun to see him walking around, and I’ve been saying it for years he should come here and do this challenge,” Kropa said.

A crowd of University students formed a circle around Richman while he filmed the introduction to the challenge.

Among those in the crowd was Darrell Butler, the namesake of the “Fat Darrell” sandwich.

Butler, a 1998 University alumnus, said when he was a college student, there was only one kind of sandwich — the “Fat Cat.” Tired of eating the “Fat Cat,” Butler said he made a special

INVASION: Policy could apply to cell phone videos continued from front through our committee on student conduct and it hasn’t gone through those processes yet.”

A University council is reviewing the policy, she said.

“We still have to finish that and move it along,” Pollak said.

Under New Jersey law, Title 2A Administration of Civil and Criminal Justice, Article 156A states it is a criminal offense to intercept or record an in-person or

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Disgruntled students address bus system frustrations

BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT

As winter slowly creeps in, Department of Transportation Services Director Jack Molenaar listened to concerns of the Livingston Campus Council about the condition of bus shelters and the transportation system.

Students and members of the council stood before Molenaar and addressed concerns directly to him during their Monday night meeting. Other issues brought up included crowded buses, nonfunctioning NextBus time tickers and parking changes. “[Molenaar] says there are going to be future changes, and he doesn’t want to do anything to solve those problems right now,” said Jorge Casalins, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student. “But that still doesn’t really solve the problem because the problems are happening now.”

Many of the bus shelters around campus are missing glass screens, and the University has not done anything to fix them, Casalins said.

Molenaar said these problems should be addressed to University Facilities and Management, but they do not plan to fix any of the shelters because they may permanently remove them.

Council External Vice President Michael Bruno said it is pointless to have bus shelters if they are broken.

“Why have them there without glass? They’re supposed to protect you from the elements and the most they do [protect from] is the rain,” said Bruno, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore. “The most they fit is 20 people under those old New Jersey Transit bus shelters.”

If the bus shelters will not be fixed, the University should consider using space heaters in order to keep students warm when waiting for the next bus, said School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Elizabeth Pyshnik.

Members later addressed the frequency of the buses on weekends.

Bruno said the weekend buses run very slow and are usually full to capacity with students as well as outsiders, especially when the L and EE routes make local stops.

Molenaar said he noticed the weekend bus schedules are an issue that has been brought up many times, but it is not something on his priority list at the moment.

He said adding more buses costs too much since only half of the transportation funds are state-funded.

LIVINGSTON Governing Council “I’m trying to figure out ways to increase the frequency without adding more buses,” Molenaar said. “It’s just not an easy process.”

“No one has a system like we do.

We have the largest bus system in the country.”

JACK MOLENAAR Director of Department of Transportation Services

More express and local buses should be created to solve the issues of frequency and overcrowded buses, Bruno said.

“They’re just such a hassle.

The worst thing is being one of the first people to not be able to fit on the bus,” he said.

“You’re at the door and you’re one step there, but you don’t fit and you get kicked off.”

Buses are always crowded in between class times when going between Busch and Livingston campuses and between Busch and the College Avenue campus, Bruno said.

Creating more bus routes is not only more expensive; it is also difficult to communicate to students each year about bus route changes, Molenaar said. Many students get frustrated with changes and may become confused.

“I want to create more express buses … but every year people don’t get it,” he said. “I’ll have to re-explain it every year.”

Bruno said the department should consider adding a few more buses during rush hour and in between class times, when the buses are usually crowded.

Members voiced concerns over the new EE route, which does not run on the opposite side of College Avenue. Molenaar said this change was made in preparation for the College Avenue greening project, which will make College Avenue a oneway street.

Safety issues regarding the 24hour bus routes were also a matter of concern for students.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Arielle Alphonse said as a resident assistant, she is concerned regarding whether safety

issues and crime rates were looked into ever since the bus system changed to 24-hours and outsiders have access to the campus at all times.

Board of Trustees Student Representative Josh Slavin said the hotel bus shuttle is not a 24hour service.

“It would be nice to have a 24hour bus service … I hope the hotels and [Residence Hall Association] can take it up with housing to accommodate us with that,” said Slavin, a Livingston College senior.

Molenaar said the shuttle is provided by Housing and Residential Life, so he has no jurisdiction over that route.

He explained some of the parking changes to students and the benefits of such changes. He said the changes have saved the students more money while earning the Department of Transportation more money.

Soon to come are online appeal applications for parking violation tickets, and special event parking permits are now available, Molenaar said.

Molenaar said the department continues to plan and implement new ideas and services.

“No one has a system like we do,” he said. “We have the largest bus system in the country.”

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The University is already actively recruiting New Student Orientation Leaders to work throughout next summer.

NSO leader information sessions are occurring throughout this week and are a mandatory part of the application process, said School of Arts and Sciences junior Selena Drobnick at Monday night’s SEBS/Cook Council meeting.

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students have been underrepresented at the information sessions in the past, she said.

“Last year, we had a huge turnout for a lot of School of Arts and Sciences students, and when we had to do presentations on each of the schools, we realized that … we had about two representatives from each school besides SAS,” Drobnick said. “We want to try to broaden the type of students we have leading New Student Orientations.”

Summer 2010 will be the second summer in which the orientations are held, Drobnick said.

They were previously held in the beginning of the fall semester.

The summer orientations are more intensive than the fall sessions had been, Drobnick said.

They require a greater time commitment from Orientation Leaders.

“It is great that they changed the schedule,” said Council Recording Secretary Nate Girer, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior. “When I went to mine, it was two days and there were these meetings that weren’t mandatory, so most people just skipped them and hung out at the dorms. It was terrible.”

Girer said the intense time commitment required by the position might prevent him from applying for the job.

A sample workweek would last from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, according to a University Student Life Web site. Wednesday is considered a “prep day.”

Drobnick said she has been working as a NSO leader for two years and feels the position is rewarding in many ways, despite the long workdays.

The program offers opportunities to network with professors and help confused new students find their way around campus, she said. “[NSO leaders] get $2,700 for the summer, so it is an intensive summer job,” Drobnick said. “I know that I have made connections with deans — deans of students, academic deans — we work with them, hand-in-hand.”

The stipend is divided into four payments: one immediately following the end of the spring semester, twice throughout the summer and one in the beginning of the new school year, she said.

Council Food Science Representative Gregory Resch said he is considering applying for an NSO leader position.

“I wanted to take some summer classes, but if I don’t have anything else set up I would definitely do this,” said Resch, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior. “It’s good for the individual. You learn a lot of leadership because you’re basically mentoring the incoming freshman about everything that you know.”

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Ensure insurance for chubby babies

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eople usually go nuts for a cute chubby baby. Many commercials for baby products portray babies with cherub-like little faces and round tummies just looking cute and giggling. But for one baby in Grand Junction, Colo., health insurance companies found his chubby body anything but cute, and his family had unexpected difficulty getting him health coverage. Alex Lange, a 17-pound, 25-inch long 4-month-old, was initially denied health insurance from Rocky Mountain Health Plans.

The underwriters, the people who assess risks for insurance companies, had determined that baby Alex’s pre-existing obesity condition put him at high risk. His parents started looking for another health insurance provider when their current insurer raised rates 40 percent after Alex was born. They were at a loss with what to do, because their baby — through no fault of his own — was denied coverage. He is not even on a diet of solid foods yet. “I could understand if we could control what he’s eating. But he’s 4 months old. He’s breast feeding,” joked his frustrated father, Bernie Lange, a part-time news anchor at KKCO-TV in Grand Junction. “We can’t put him on the Atkins diet or on a treadmill. There is just something absurd about denying an infant.” Thankfully, the insurance company has given this baby a second chance, and has reversed its policy of denying fat babies coverage, according to the Associated Press.

There is something rather ludicrous about denying a baby health insurance. When children are that young they have medical needs and expenses that must be taken care of because they are growing rapidly. Alex will need vaccinations and check-ups, which can be very expensive for parents to pay for out-of-pocket. It is not the baby’s fault that he is so large. Pictures show the 4-month-old on his mother’s lap and he does look like a larger baby, but the fact of the matter is it is not just his weight; his height is also larger for that of a baby his age. At 17 pounds, Alex is in the 99th percentile for height and weight for babies his age. His parents were told insurance companies don’t take babies above the 95th percentile, no matter how healthy.

It just seems like the baby is too young to really determine if he is high risk for an insurance company to take on. He hasn’t even started to crawl yet, so there is really no way to control his weight. There is really nothing anyone can do for him until he does start to become active and eat solid food. His parents can then have the baby exercise by walking, running and crawling and also control what he eats. This is just another example of how the health insurance system is messed up. The fact that they even thought about prematurely denying a baby that hasn’t even had a chance to live long enough to make unhealthy life choices is troubling. They have to decide what is important, making money or helping people.

Zero stupidity tolerance

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ver since terrible school shootings like Columbine and Virginia Tech, schools are taking precautions to really monitor what students are bringing into their buildings. Many also have a zero-tolerance weapon policy that suspends any child who brings in a weapon to school. This is a good idea to have, especially when a student is posing dangers to his or her classmates, but one school in Newark, Del., may have taken it a bit to far. According to The New York Times, 6-year-old Zachary Christie was suspended from school and is facing 45 days in reform school for bringing camping utensils — a fork, knife or spoon — to eat his lunch with. The school officials decided that he had violated the zero-tolerance weapon policy, leaving many wondering how far people will take the weapon policies.

The school officials are at fault for using bad judgment. The concern about weapons in school has blinded them from using common sense and discretion when dealing with students and any possible discipline problems they are having with them. Christie was excited about joining the Boy Scouts and was just trying to eat lunch with his new “toy,” which was his camping utensil. Eating lunch with a fork does not constitute as a reason to suspect a child of having a weapon. People are so focused on little things that may be a problem, they lose the ability to see things occurring right in front of their face.

Christie should have been pulled into the principal’s office and asked about the tool he brought to school. When he explained what the purpose of the utensil was, the principal or whoever was talking to Christie should have simply confiscated the item and given it back to him at the end of the day, or had a parent come pick it up. It is irresponsible to just decide on the spot that this kid was a danger to the school and his classmates. Yes, you have to be careful, but at the same time teachers should use discretion when they are going to punish a child severely.

The 2005-2006 school year had an 86 percent rating of at least one violent crime, theft or other crime occurring, according to the article.

Caution must be executed carefully, but also responsibly. If you punish one, you must punish them all. There is a difference between a child who is bringing in a switch blade or pocket knife to school, and a child who is trying to eat his lunch with a spork-like object.

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ou lead a sad, exceedgray area of the status quo ingly pathetic exisbecome the ideal for college tence when you kids to strive for? directly correlate fun with However true the above partying to the extent that arguments may be, kids your epistemic abilities fail to won’t cease their hard-partyconjure up anything else that ing habits because alcohol could be rendered as a good enhances their ability to be time. In truth, this mindJENNA GREENFIELD funny, daring and jocund. frame plagues many young Without ethanol running adults in college, as the setting cultivates and encourthrough their veins, many may find that their inseages the “party scene.” While it by no means has concurities still run rampant, stunting their social capasumed the whole population of college students, a bilities. Guys ensure that girls consume enough hearty percentage unequivocally rank partying as alcohol to diminish their standards, enhancing the the only activity worthy of a Thursday, Friday or guys’ chance to use their oh-so-clever, alcohol-laced Saturday night. What better way to spend your weeksmooth talk to obliterate any walls that were not end nights then drowning in intoxication, perhaps already diminished by the girls’ altered state of consequently acting wild, loose and uninhibited? mind. Frankly, many partiers are not ashamed to Perhaps most discouraging, the college campus admit that they drink alcohol so that they can parhas been littered with the stinking corpse of creativticipate in things they are normally too bashful or ity. When 20-year-olds can fathom nothing more self-aware to do. How wretched a society that cannot interesting to do with their time than overuse the derive the ability to have a good — even crazy — pastime that they have been exhausting for years, time without suppressants deranging their mindset! innovative spirit is suffocated.

How shameless are the people The quest to ignite the motivation who bluntly admit that their own “Perhaps most to get through the next week of personalities simply don’t suffice work, when extinguished at the in the context of a jam-packed discouraging, the college nearest fraternity house, is left to basement! Somehow, exchanging rot under the floorboards. For campus has been littered drunken mistakes from the night some, this scene becomes so allbefore, reiterating just how with the stinking consuming that people who fulfill smashed you became on the their fun quota for the week by impressive amount and assortcorpse of creativity.” other means become not only ment of alcohol you housed, and unrelatable, but boring. Has our piecing together a night with glarcollege society become so degenerate, so uncreing holes in it with your fellow drunks has become ative in thought that participating in anything other a popular pastime on the college campus. than parties is instantaneously deemed as soporific?

Something a considerable portion of partygoers Enjoying the company of friends in settings that are will not forthrightly admit is the abject spirit that is void of blaring music and incorrigible groping may so tangible in their life, for one reason or another, seem mundane, but frankly, it is often these times that they party as means of escaping these feelings that prove to be the rudiment of substantial relaof inadequacy. While many college kids simply tionships and unforgettable events that concatenate party for reasons mentioned above, there is no a smorgasbord of memories. denying that a sizeable amount go out to sink into a Equally as otiose in nature is the drunken state crowd of strangers, numbing their dejection, stress in which many partiers stoop to while out on their or hardship with the sense of oblivion that bombiweekend excursions of fun and excitement — a true nates through the sea of heads. The obvious symbol of moral decay. Most obviously, if you are predicament that surfaces in this case is that alcohol not 21 years of age yet, you are blatantly breaking is not a miracle substance: Remarkably, it cannot the law. Because many people have flouted this law erase the truths of reality, although it can temporardoes not make it any less illegal, contrary to comily abate its intensity. mon behavior and thought patterns. But, shying It is crucial for college kids to realize that partying away from the legalistic standpoint, the objective to is not necessary to deal with pain, alter their persongo out and get “hammered” falls pathetically short alities or partake in a good time. An insatiable feeling of a noble, respectable one. However, being noble of emptiness — although perhaps not yet acknowland respectable no longer seems pertinent, so many edged — will surely eat our society alive, feeding off instantly disregard this argument, labeling it as the carcass of innovation, imagination and contrivance prude and miserably lacking and adventurous spirthat has been slaughtered by mainstream partying. it. I challenge that notion: Is it not far more adventurous to seek alternatives to the drunken stupor Jenna Greenfield is a School of Arts and Sciences that encapsulates college students than to simply sophomore. Her column “Triumphs and Woes” runs accept being the stereotype? When did falling in the on alternative Wednesdays.

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Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 5 — Settle into a pattern. Pay attention to the details but forge ahead. You reach an emotional high late in the day.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 —Details matter more than you suspect. Listen to others and learn.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 5 — Use information you've gathered to persuade others. They'll accept your leadership if you're definite and precise.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 5 — You feel like the details fit together into a solid argument. Put the finishing touches on your speech later today.

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ARBES TAKES FIFTH DESPITE POOR TEAM RESULT The Rutgers men’s golf team posted a disappointing seventhplace finish yesterday at Ellington MEN’S GOLF R i d g e Country Club in the inaugural Connecticut Cup. Arkansas-Little Rock ran away with the tournament, finishing 22 strokes ahead of second-place Bryant. The Trojans’ Linus Gillgren fired three consecutive sub-par rounds to pace the field at six under par.

The Scarlet Knights struggled on day one for the third consecutive event. RU found itself in eighth place after Monday’s play with a 36-hole total of 606, 31

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Despite a battle for playing time at third wideout continues, freshman quarterback Tom Savage (7) has yet to throw an interception.

SAVAGE: Open tryout for third wideout continues continued from back put him in situations that he can handle.”

Just as the team sought to give Savage one last tune-up before Pittburgh Friday night, the open tr youts for the third wide receiver position continued.

Freshman Mark Harrison saw his most action, classmate Quron Pratt made his debut and senior Julian Hayes made his largest impact.

Hayes’ second quar ter reception was the first catch by a wideout not named Tim Brown or Mohamed Sanu since Hayes pulled in a pass against Cincinnati.

Hayes added a second catch later in the game and Pratt pulled in a 14-yard pass from Natale.

“If you look at it, everybody, except Tim Brown, in the passing game is an inexperienced player,” Schiano said. “We have to get it precise because imprecision leads to turnovers. Imprecision leads to incomplete passes.”

Despite the inexperience, the Savage-led offense has yet to commit a turnover.

Savage, who knocked on his wooden locker when discussing his interception-free college career after Saturday’s game, is taking care of the ball while his defense repeatedly gives it back to him. The Knights are first in the Big East and second in the nation with their plus-12 turnover margin.

“It is critical,” Schiano said.

“The [turnover] margin is the key stat as far as the football team goes. Ever y year you look up at teams that are ranked high in turnover margin, they are usually having a pretty good season.”

strokes behind Arkansas-Little Rock. Jimmy Arbes’ closing oneunder-par 71 enabled the Knights to move up a spot in the f i n a l round.

T h e senior’s 54-hole tally of JIMMY f i v e ARBES over-par 221 left him in a tie for 5th place.

Fellow seniors James Hilaire and captain Jordan Gibbs fol-

lowed behind Arbes with respective 23rd and 27th place showings. The tournament was Gibbs’ first since the season-opening Rutgers Invitational win.

Rounding out the scoring for RU were senior Benjamin Bershad and sophomore Andrew Tursky. Both players posted solid opening-round 75’s before regressing over the final 36 holes to finish 36th and 48th, respectively.

The Scarlet Knights have ample time to regroup before wrapping up the fall campaign at the Big East Match Play Event from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1.

— Kevin O’Rourke

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SAUNDERS: Captain leading divers in winter season continued from back Joining the two veterans are freshmen Kate Kearney and Kelsey Tennett.

“We have a strong one-two punch with Erin [Saunders] and Jen [Betz],” said diving coach Fred Woodruff. “I’m depending on the upperclassmen to do much of the scoring and the younger divers to learn.

[Kearney and Tennett] have a lot of potential but also a lot of learning to do. This is the year to develop.”

Both freshmen are going to have the privilege to learn from two divers, Saunders and Betz, whose diving styles both contrast and complement one another.

“Jen [Betz] has all the straight lines and clean entries where I’m

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able to do more technical stuff in divers and swimmers, we are the air,” Saunders said. “We feed one team. And believe me, that off of each other. We have known is not the norm around the each other since high school and countr y,” Woodruff said. we get along so well.”

Head coach Chuck Warner Saunders is both the diving also realizes the importance of captain and a capboth groups comtain of the entire ing together as swimming and divone team.

“Erin is by far ing team. She “Both sports the best woman leads by example train separately in by helping not diver we have ever the pool so you only the divers but can see how the had. To replace also the younger divers would feel swimmers too, apart from the Erin is going to Woodruff said. swimmers,” The synergy Warner said. “But be hard to do.” between divers we have a ver y FRED WOODRUFF and swimmers is close team and Diving Coach something that is everyone interacts rare around the with one another.” countr y but For Saunders, strong at Rutgers, it is the element of respect that he said. makes both groups come “I have been coaching here together to understand and help since the fall of 1993. I think one another. one of the best things about this “We both respect each as two team is the fact that we are not different sports but we are one

team,” Saunders said. “They know they can come to one of us about anything. I may know nothing about swimming but it still gets me excited when they do something good.”

Saunders believes that the new divers will be able to carry the team once she is gone.

“They are very responsible girls, which is great,” she said. “A lot of times you bring in freshman that just don’t care and they do what they want, but that is not the case. I think when Jen and I graduate they will be able to pass [the responsibilities] on from class to class.”

When Saunders graduates, RU not only loses a record holder, but also a prominent leader for the entire team.

Those are going to be some tough shoes to fill.

“Erin is by far the best woman diver we have ever had,” Woodruff said. “To replace Erin is going to be hard to do.”

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The No. 10 ranking is the Scarlet Knights’ highest ranking in program history.

The Knights climbed up from a 13th place ranking after a Sept. 2527 series, where the team defeated Georgetown and drew Villanova.

The No. 10 spot was retained after a convincing overtime victory over DePaul with a free-kick from 30-yards out in the 94th minute.

The game itself was a trial for the team after suffering a loss of junior for ward Ashley Jones, who was taken off the field in an ambulance in the 23rd minute against the Blue Demons.

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Undefeateds collide when Cincy heads to USF

BY BILL DOMKE CORRESPONDENT

Continued perfection is on the line as No. 8 Cincinnati heads to South FOOTBALL Florida to take on the Bulls MIDWEEK REPORT in a Thursday night Big East clash. Both teams are 5-0 overall and 1-0 in conference play.

The game carries serious implications for the rest of the Big East in the home stretch of the season — a Cincinnati loss puts Rutgers right back in the hunt for the Big East title.

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While both teams come off of a bye week, the Bearcats work off of a 37-13 drubbing of Miam (Ohio) where the ground game did much of the work, while the Bulls continue to condition freshman replacement B.J. Daniels in the absence of Matt Grothe.

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Hutchins at the end of regulation sealed a 24-21 victor y for Pittsburgh over Connecticut.

Pitt (4-1, 2-0) quarterback Bill Stull led the Panthers on an 18point comeback with 268 yards on 21-for-31 passing for two touchdowns and two interceptions.

Stull’s game-tying touchdown, a 27-yard pass to roommate Dorin Dickerson, was followed by a two-point conversion pass to Cedric McGee. The Panthers could not convert opportunities in the beginning of the game — something the Huskies (3-2, 0-1) took advantage of.

Connecticut’s quarterback Cody Endres threw 197 yards for one touchdown and no interceptions, and was complimented by a ground game that picked up 138 yards of its own.

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Cincinnati quarterback Tony Pike leads his undefeated Bearcats club into South Florida on Thursday for a critical Big East battle.

ROWE: Corner starting after playing nickel last year continued from back “He’s really good and the coaches are comparing him to Kenny last year, so, to us, that means he’s really good.”

With his play since becoming a starter, Rowe has impressed senior cornerback Devin McCourty.

“He’s just such a cool guy,” the team captain said. “He’s always confident and calm.”

At this juncture in the season, Rowe has 12 tackles to go along with two hits on the quarterback; two pass breakups and his 56-yard interception return for a touchdown.

But it wasn’t always smooth sailing for Rowe at cornerback.

As a true freshman, he did not play any cornerback on the outside. Rowe played in the nickel position, covering slot receivers and tight ends.

Rowe put in the work over the summer to make the transition, however, and his playing time speaks for itself.

After losing running backs LeSean McCoy and LaRod Stephens-Howling to the NFL Draft, Pittsburgh was supposed to be lacking in the running game for the upcoming season.

But freshmen Dion Lewis and Ray Graham have done nothing

“[Shimko]’s done such a good job.

It’s not just who fills in here, but who fills in as the fourth quarterback.”

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but impress for Pittsburgh head coach Dave Wannstedt’s Panthers, combining for 914 yards and 10 touchdowns.

“The guy that’s doing the scout team, [sophomore] Tyrone Putman, is ver y elusive as well,” Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano said. “He’s tr y-

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Syracuse down in painful fashion as the Mountaineers bludgeoned the Orange 34-13.

Point guard-turned-Syracuse quarterback Greg Paulus was pulled out of the game for backup Ryan Nassib at the half after a poor performance of 30 passing yards on 5-for-9 passing and an interception on his second pass attempt.

But the damage had already been done — the Mountaineers held a 27-0 lead coming into the third quarter.

Noel Devine caught an 11yard touchdown pass, and rushed four yards for another score. Ryan Clarke provided two more touchdowns on short runs of one and three yards.

West Virginia quarterback Jarrett Brown enjoyed a productive game, throwing 22-for-30 for 244 yards and a touchdown, 179 of which came in the first half.

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second win of the season Saturday against Southern Mississippi in a 25-23 comeback victory.

Cardinal quarterback Adam Froman threw for 248 yards, a touchdown and an interception on 16-for-29 passing, including a 92-yard bomb to Scott Long.

Long had a career-high day in receiving, racking up 146 receiving yards and the only receiving touchdown of the game.

A game-winning field goal with 30 seconds left in regulation

by Ryan Payne would be the dagger that ended the Golden Eagles’ hopes for a road win and gave the Cards their second win.

ANDY HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Pittsburgh quarterback Bill Stull pioneered a game-winning drive as the Panthers upended Connecticut Saturday 24-21.

BIG EAST POWER POLL Football

TEAM RECORD BIG EAST POINTS 1. No. 8 Cincinnati 5-0 1-0 40 2. No. 21 USF 5-0 1-0 35 3. Pittsburgh 5-1 2-0 29 4. West Virginia 4-1 1-0 25 5. RUTGERS 4-1 0-1 18 6. Connecticut 3-2 0-1 18 7. Louisville 2-3 0-1 9 8. Syracuse 2-4 0-2 6 * Eight points awarded for first place, seven for second place, etc. * Five members of the Targum sports desk submitted ballots

ing to do what they do because both of them really do it well.

The thing is when you have two good backs like that, like we do, like they do, you keep them fresh so the guy’s not going to be gassed. And it’s more impor tant when they’re freshmen, because you get gassed a little easier when you’re a freshman probably.”

Redshirt freshman quarterback Steve Shimko had to leave practice early yesterday after an injur y. Schiano does not know what happened yet to the Ewing, N.J., native, but it could pose a problem because Shimko is the scout team quarterback.

“He’s done such a good job,” Schiano said. “It’s not just who fills in here, but who fills in as the fourth quarterback.”

Schiano revealed yesterday at practice that the reason redshirt freshman Keith Stroud has not played is a medical concern.

“Stroud has a little issue medically,” Schiano said. “He can’t play yet.”

ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Scout team quarterback Steve Shimko (12) was injured in yesterday’s practice while simulating Pittsburgh starter Bill Stull.

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SAVAGE READY FOR FIRST TEST

BY STEVEN MILLER CORRESPONDENT

Tom Savage and the wideouts might not realize it, but they are in a tight competition with the Rutgers football team’s defense.

Five games into the season, the defense scored as many points as the offense creFOOTBALL ated through the passing game.

While it is certainly a credit to the defense, whose four scores gives new meaning to their “swarm the ball” motto, it is not an indictment of the true freshman quarterback.

Savage has yet to be asked to light up the scoreboard.

“My goal is not to lose the game,” Savage said. “The ball is the biggest part of the offense, and we have all the talent in the world. Everything is there, so it’s actually pretty easy for me just to make the throws and try not to force everything.”

The Scarlet Knights’ backfield duo — which true freshman De’Antwan “Rocket” Williams hopes to make a trio — takes a load of pressure off Savage.

The group can lay claim to 10 touchdowns.

Sophomore tailback Joe Martinek has scored five times, classmate Jourdan Brooks has four touchdowns and Williams, the Woodbridge, Va., native, found the end zone once.

Although they were slow out of the gates, limited in opportunity due to the team’s deficit against Cincinnati, the group found its rhythm soon after.

In each of the past four games, a tailback broke the century mark rushing.

Martinek was the first back to run for 100 yards in consecutive games since Ray Rice played his last two games, and Williams was the first player since Rice to rush for 100 yards as a freshman.

The rushing attack that was expected to carry the offense has done just that.

“Our offense is run-based right now,” Savage said.

“We have two or three of the best running backs, and right now it’s going well. They’re doing awesome and we just have to get the passing game together.”

The Texas Southern matchup was the best opportunity for Savage and the Knights to do that.

After using the run game as a crutch in the rainsoaked Maryland game with senior Dom Natale under center, there was a concerted effort for a balanced attack last weekend.

At College Park, Md., RU called for 15 passes and 46 runs. Saturday, the ratio was 27 called pass plays to 36 rushes.

“We wanted to get Tom as much action as we could before we took him out,” head coach Greg Schiano said. “There is never enough [experience]. I think what we have to do is make sure we put him in situa-

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BRYAN ANGELES/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

After being inserted as the starting quarterback against Howard one month ago, true freshman Tom Savage (7) gets his first real test against Big East competition as Pittsburgh comes to Piscataway for a Friday night showdown.

Rowe amped for tough foe in Panthers WR Baldwin

Saunders leads way for divers

BY SAM HELLMAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

BY ALEX JANKOWSKI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Entering her senior year, Rutgers diver Erin Saunders SWIMMING & DIVING already has a legacy that will be tough to duplicate.

She holds every diving record on the women’s side for the school and is a top five competitor in the Big East with the goal of reaching the NCAA Championships.

But she is not the only diver returning to the team for the 2009-2010 season. Along with Saunders is junior Jen Betz, who has two more years of eligibility due to a medical redshirt her freshman year.

SEE SAUNDERS ON PAGE 14

BRYAN ANGELES/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore cornerback David Rowe returns his first career interception 56 yards for a touchdown against Texas Southern.

David Rowe’s only regret from the 420 shutout of Texas Southern is that his mother wasn’t FOOTBALL there to see it.

That is why Rowe is so excited about Friday night’s matchup against Pittsburgh — his mother is making the trip north from Cocoa, Fla., to see him play for only the second time this season — and Rowe wants it to be a memorable visit.

“I would probably say it’s more exciting because my mom’s coming up for the game,” the sophomore cornerback said. “I always get excited when she comes up, so it’s going to be a really exciting night.”

His mother missed Rowe’s elite performance last week when he took an interception back for a touchdown against the Tigers.

Both were career firsts for Rowe, starting in only his third career game.

“We’re sitting in the zone and I was playing the flat and I just read the quarterback the whole way and as soon as I caught it and I looked to the left and saw a lot of blockers [I] just followed them and they led me into the end zone,” Rowe said. “It certainly helps my confidence. It helps for the whole defense when we get a score.”

The last time Rowe’s mother attended a game, he made his first career start against Florida International, replacing a struggling junior Brandon Bing at the position.

This time, Rowe gets the chance to face off against, what he says, is a receiver that reminds him of former Scarlet Knights great Kenny Britt.

“They have big, tall, speedy receivers,” Rowe said. “All of them are very good so we have our hands full.

This year I have a chance to go against [sophomore wide receiver Jonathan Baldwin] and that’s pretty exciting.

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