on a recent proposal for a new type of power plant in Linden, N.J. “Carbon capture sequestration, or CCS, is storing CO2 from the atmos- phere, capturing it from a power plant, and then transporting it to a geological formation under the earth, like a sand- stone rock with a cap rock above it,” Hlavaty said. The city considered a project called PurGen in 2009, which would have implemented a carbon storage system into a coal plant, Hlavaty said. “When you store the CO2, it’s taken out of our atmosphere and put under the surface for millions of years. The point of it is to decrease our CO2 emissions “We don’t stay open as late as most of our other locations,” Ward said. “We have set hours because of the student center.” Other locations offer merchandise that is unavailable at the Livingston Student Center location, like K-cups for Keurig coffeemakers and a selection of coffee mugs. “When we close, we have to lock up all the food and coffee,” he said. “We don’t have the option to lock our doors, people can still get behind the counter when no one is there.” Joyce Pelley, a shift lead at the Dunkin’ Donuts, said the front line staff sees the increase of customers daily. “We have more people coming here than we did last year,” she said. “The extra dorms on cam- pus are definitely bringing in more business.” Pelley said the location has always been busy, but the renovations a few years ago helped relieve some of the pressure the line put on workers. “We were renovated a few years ago,” she said. “Before that we had a smaller location and it was sometimes hard to handle the crowd of customers. The bigger location has helped move the line along.” Jose Rodriguez, a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student, said he frequents the location two to three times a week. “This location is always busy, every time I come here,” he said. “Sometimes, around 10 [a.m.], the Students need to understand the overall budget before understanding the details, she said. Winterbauer said she is glad the state has actually decided to ask vot- ers for funding for capital improve- ments through a bond act, because most states provide money for univer- sities to maintain their buildings. “Whatever they give us we can use well,” she said. She said the decline in state fund- ing and increased private donations raise questions about the University’s status as a public institution. HELPING HANDS New Jersey Public Interest Research Group volunteers to help provide for the homeless and hungry in New Brunswick. UNIVERSITY, PAGE 3 GET UP AND VOTE News editor Amy Rowe explains what is at stake and why students should vote on Election Day. OPINIONS, PAGE 9 The Rutgers men’s basketball team hosts MidKnight Madness tonight at the College Ave Gym, which features a dunk contest and free T-shirts for fans. / SPORTS, BACK WEATHER Partly Sunny High: 60 Nighttime Low: 34 Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY-NEW BRUNSWICK ONLINE AT DAILYTARGUM.COM VOLUME 144, ISSUE 29 • UNIVERSITY ... 3 • ON THE WIRE... 6 • OPINIONS ... 8 • DIVERSIONS ... 10 • CLASSIFIEDS ... 12 • SPORTS ... BACK KNIGHT SCHOOL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2012 The Dunkin’ Donuts kiosk in the Livingston Student Center attracts a winding line around lunch time. This location generates $3 on average from every customer, said Matt Ward, a University Dining Services manager. RYAN MCGRIFF Winterbauer stresses need for state funding Livingston Dunkin’ Donuts boasts record hourly sales BY SHAWN SMITH CORRESPONDENT Students might think business at the Livingston Student Center’s Dunkin’ Donuts is booming from observing the long line that accu- mulates in front of the kiosk every day. Those students are right. The small location edges out competing franchises in the area by touting the highest grossing sales per hour on the East Coast. “We serve between 1,100 to 1,200 customers per hour,” said Matt Ward, University Dining Services manager. “That’s about $3 per cus- tomer, the cost of a coffee and a donut.” Ward said the kiosk takes advantage of its unique location on Livingston campus to achieve such high sales numbers. “Between classes letting out, and the bus schedule to the student center, we have an idea of when we will be busy,” he said. “The new addi- tion of the apartments across the street has also impacted sales. We are up from last year, about 150 customers more a day.” To accommodate new residents on Livingston campus, Dunkin’ Donuts has increased its hours of operation from last year as well. “Last year, we were closed on weekends,” Ward said. “This year, we are now open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.” The Dunkin’ Donuts at the Livingston Student Center manages to earn more sales per hour than other locations, despite limited operating hours. Kiosk serves about 1,200 customers each hour, more than any other East Coast location SEE SALES ON PAGE 5 BY HANNAH SCHROER STAFF WRITER Nancy Winterbauer, vice presi- dent of University budgeting, told attendees at last night’s Rutgers University Student Assembly meet- ing that the state paid 70 percent of tuition in 1989 while students paid 30 percent. “Those numbers have flipped,” she said last night in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus, where she highlight- ed portions of the budget and explained how the University’s money is handled. Nancy Winterbauer, vice president of University Budgeting, breaks down the University’s $2 billion budget last night during a Rutgers University Student Assembly meeting. LIANNE NG, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Vice president of University Budgeting talks money at student assembly meeting Student shows research on carbon depositories BY JULIAN MODESTO STAFF WRITER If carbon dioxide was stored in a repository beneath the earth’s sur- face, Corie Hlavaty, a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences senior, said she would not want it in her backyard. “The pressure is probably increas- ing under you and there could be poten- tial leaks. CO2 in abundance could be deadly,” Hlavaty said at the Rutgers Energy Institute’s first Energy Café of the semester. At the Cove in the Busch Campus Center, she gave a presentation, “Geology and Politics of Carbon Capture Sequestration,” which focused SEE FUNDING ON PAGE 5 SEE RESEARCH ON PAGE 5
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on a recent proposal for a new type ofpower plant in Linden, N.J.
“Carbon capture sequestration, orCCS, is storing CO2 from the atmos-phere, capturing it from a power plant,and then transporting it to a geologicalformation under the earth, like a sand-stone rock with a cap rock above it,”Hlavaty said.
The city considered a project calledPurGen in 2009, which would haveimplemented a carbon storage systeminto a coal plant, Hlavaty said.
“When you store the CO2, it’s takenout of our atmosphere and put under thesurface for millions of years. The pointof it is to decrease our CO2 emissions
“We don’t stay open as late as most of ourother locations,” Ward said. “We have set hoursbecause of the student center.”
Other locations offer merchandise that isunavailable at the Livingston Student Centerlocation, like K-cups for Keurig coffeemakersand a selection of coffee mugs.
“When we close, we have to lock up all thefood and coffee,” he said. “We don’t have theoption to lock our doors, people can still getbehind the counter when no one is there.”
Joyce Pelley, a shift lead at the Dunkin’Donuts, said the front line staff sees the increaseof customers daily.
“We have more people coming here than wedid last year,” she said. “The extra dorms on cam-pus are definitely bringing in more business.”
Pelley said the location has always beenbusy, but the renovations a few years agohelped relieve some of the pressure the line puton workers.
“We were renovated a few years ago,” shesaid. “Before that we had a smaller location andit was sometimes hard to handle the crowd ofcustomers. The bigger location has helpedmove the line along.”
Jose Rodriguez, a School of Arts and Sciencesfirst-year student, said he frequents the locationtwo to three times a week.
“This location is always busy, every time I comehere,” he said. “Sometimes, around 10 [a.m.], the
Students need to understand theoverall budget before understandingthe details, she said.
Winterbauer said she is glad thestate has actually decided to ask vot-ers for funding for capital improve-ments through a bond act, becausemost states provide money for univer-sities to maintain their buildings.
“Whatever they give us we canuse well,” she said.
She said the decline in state fund-ing and increased private donationsraise questions about the University’sstatus as a public institution.
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The Dunkin’ Donuts kiosk in the Livingston Student Center attracts a winding line aroundlunch time. This location generates $3 on average from every customer, said Matt Ward, aUniversity Dining Services manager. RYAN MCGRIFF
Winterbauer stressesneed for state funding
Livingston Dunkin’ Donutsboasts record hourly sales
BY SHAWN SMITHCORRESPONDENT
Students might think business at theLivingston Student Center’s Dunkin’ Donuts isbooming from observing the long line that accu-mulates in front of the kiosk every day.
Those students are right. The small locationedges out competing franchises in the area bytouting the highest grossing sales per hour onthe East Coast.
“We serve between 1,100 to 1,200 customersper hour,” said Matt Ward, University DiningServices manager. “That’s about $3 per cus-tomer, the cost of a coffee and a donut.”
Ward said the kiosk takes advantage of itsunique location on Livingston campus to achievesuch high sales numbers.
“Between classes letting out, and the busschedule to the student center, we have an ideaof when we will be busy,” he said. “The new addi-tion of the apartments across the street has alsoimpacted sales. We are up from last year, about150 customers more a day.”
To accommodate new residents on Livingstoncampus, Dunkin’ Donuts has increased its hoursof operation from last year as well.
“Last year, we were closed on weekends,”Ward said. “This year, we are now open 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.”
The Dunkin’ Donuts at the Livingston StudentCenter manages to earn more sales per hour thanother locations, despite limited operating hours.
Kiosk serves about 1,200 customers each hour, more than any other East Coast location
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BY HANNAH SCHROERSTAFF WRITER
Nancy Winterbauer, vice presi-dent of University budgeting, toldattendees at last night’s RutgersUniversity Student Assembly meet-ing that the state paid 70 percent oftuition in 1989 while students paid 30 percent.
“Those numbers have flipped,” shesaid last night in the StudentActivities Center on the CollegeAvenue campus, where she highlight-ed por tions of the budget andexplained how the University’s moneyis handled.
Nancy Winterbauer, vice president of University Budgeting, breaks downthe University’s $2 billion budget last night during a Rutgers UniversityStudent Assembly meeting. LIANNE NG, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Vice president of University Budgeting talksmoney at student assembly meeting
Student shows researchon carbon depositories
BY JULIAN MODESTOSTAFF WRITER
If carbon dioxide was stored in arepository beneath the earth’s sur-face, Corie Hlavaty, a School ofEnvironmental and BiologicalSciences senior, said she would notwant it in her backyard.
“The pressure is probably increas-ing under you and there could be poten-tial leaks. CO2 in abundance could bedeadly,” Hlavaty said at the RutgersEnergy Institute’s first Energy Café ofthe semester.
At the Cove in the Busch CampusCenter, she gave a presentation,“Geology and Politics of CarbonCapture Sequestration,” which focused
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never though this could happen tothem.
“You can’t romanticize poverty,”Shepler said. “It’s real and deeplyspiritual. They are just like you andI, more victims of circumstance thanhomeless because of somethingthey themselves did.”
The food pantry is one of thechurch’s biggest efforts to help thehomeless in the New Brunswickcommunity, operating five days aweek and helping more than 1,000people a month, Shepler said.
Adamu said the food bankrecently cut its supply and is in needof help.
“We are trying to help fundraisefor more supplies for them,” Adamusaid. “Having benefit dinners andgetting volunteers like the fraterni-ties to help are two of the thing weare working on.”
NJPIRG is also trying to get peo-ple to help sprucethe shelter up bypainting the wallsand supplying newfurniture, Adamusaid.
“One of thethings you wouldn’trealize them need-ing is medicine,”Adamu said.“Medicine is huge.”
She saidNJPIRG wants to host a benefit din-ner in the church’s gym open to any-one who wants to come for a roman-tic evening with some food to raiseproceeds for the campaign.
“When I’m here I mostly sur-vey the place to find out what theyneed most,” Adamu said. “I askabout upcoming events, help themprepare the food, clean up and setup for the kids to play and basical-ly do whatever the church needsme to do.”
The church also runs a thriftstore, which opened this past sum-mer and is now open from noon to 5p.m. every day, Shepler said.Donated goods compose the shop’sinventory, and it even offers somefree clothing for those in need.
The church and NJPIRG’sefforts also cooperates withFISH hospitality, a one-weekshelter for those who have losttheir jobs or were evicted fromtheir homes because of a courtorder, Shepler said.
The church gives people hopeand helps individuals get back intothe workforce, he said.
Shepler said the church pro-vides for people of all ages and cul-tures in need. Guests usually stayanywhere from six to eight
months, he said.Although the church
does have volunteers, theyare lacking manpower,Adamu said.
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NJPIRG campaignworks with church
BY MEGAN MORREALECONTRIBUTING WITER
A woman with two childrenof her own and four foster chil-dren came into a church lookingfor food and clothing, becausethe foster system did not giveher enough money to supporther family.
Rev. Doug Shepler of the SecondReformed Church said this mothersacrificed her entire life for thesechildren and came to his churchlooking for help.
“It’s a great cycle of service,”Shepler said. “We are helping some-body to help some-one else.”
The church,located on theCollege Avenuecampus, providesfood and shelter forhomeless familiesand is teaming upwith New JerseyPublic InterestResearch Group,which is working ona campaign to help those in need.
Marta Adamu, lead intern forNJPIRG’s “Hunger andHomelessness” campaign, saidworking with the homeless hum-bles her and makes her realize whatis important.
“Welfare only provides lessthan $200 a month to a singlemother of two,” said Adamu, aSchool of Arts and Sciencessophomore. “This is obviouslynot enough to survive on, soour efforts here are workingtoward helping that.”
The church is involved in numer-ous campaigns to help the home-less, such as the food pantry andshelter house, both of whichNJPIRG now helps sponsor.
The church needs money to buycomputers, furniture and morefood, Shepler said.
“Families come for a week,then they have to move toanother church in the area,”said Lamar Jones, a social workintern at the church. “We makefood and snacks available tothem and give them somewhereto sleep for the night.”
Shepler said many of the home-less are victims of the economy
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Students take initative to helphunger, homeless
PLACENTA PERCEPTION Elizabeth Armstrong, a professor in the Department of Sociologyat Princeton University, came to the University yesterday to speak about the ethics concerningmedicine and how society views the placenta at the Institute For Health, Health Care Policy AndAging Research. ENRICO CABREDO
“You can’tromanticize
poverty. It’s real anddeeply spiritual.”
DOUG SHEPLERReverend at the Second
Reformed Church
mine which areas they would liketo see more information in.
“The issue is how to put thebudget out in any detail and keepit understandable,” she said.
The University’s budget is morethan $2 billion, Winterbauer said.The budget is separated into threeportions: the auxiliary, restrictedand unrestricted budgets, she said.
More than 70 percentUniversity’s endowments arerestricted to specified purposesby the donor and cannot beapplied based on budget short-falls, Winterbauer said. TheUniversity spends the earningsfrom those endowments, not theendowments themselves.
Student tuition and fees aswell as state appropriations andfringe benefits compose 90 per-cent of the University’s unrestrict-ed budget, which makes it more
“In New Jersey, the govern-ment is saying ‘Why not just usenatural gas instead of a coalCCS plant?’” Hlavaty said. “In2011, the government just said,‘No, we are not doing this, weare not having another coalplant in New Jersey.’”
Although it actually costs lessto build a new clean coal powerplant than to implement a CCSsystem into an existing powerplant, the efficiency of a new coal-burning factory was also calledinto question, she said.
“About a third of the energy ofa CCS plant goes to just poweringthe CCS part of the plant, so youdo end up using 25 to 40 percentmore coal than a normal coal-burning plant, so that’s a prettybig implication,” she said.
Current power plants are veryinefficient, because they werebuilt about 50 years ago and weremeant to operate for only so long,said Ken Miller, board memberfor the Rutgers Energy Institute.
“You actually have a net gain interms of efficien-cy,” said Miller, aprofessor in theDepartment ofEarth andPlanetary Sciences.
Since the rejec-tion of PurGen, thecompany behindthe project hasmoved their effortsto California,where CCS is moreaccepted, Hlavatysaid. This project
was successful because of the useof a different process known asenhanced oil recovery.
“They are using a depleted oilfield. So there’s still some oil leftin the oil field, and if they pumpCO2, the oil gets pushed back up,so it’s economically beneficialbecause they can use that oil tosell versus just storing the CO2in there,” she said.
Currently, environmentalistshold a position against CCS.
“Industry such as oil compa-nies are totally for it,” Hlavatysaid. “Oil companies, you knowthey would prefer that overrenewables or efficiency becausethose aren’t helping them.”
She said most academicsbelieve more experiments needto be done for the CCS model.
“There are still academics whoare against the idea completely. Ithas a lot to do with money andhuman safety,” she said.
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line will stretch down to the infor-mation desk.”
Deandra Carter, a RutgersBusiness School junior, also visitsthe location a few times a week.
“The line is long, but onceyou get to the counter, you canget your coffee and food in abouttwo minutes,” she said. “It’s real-ly quick.”
But business might changenext year when Starbucksopens in the Livingston Plaza,Pelley said.
“I don’t know what will hap-pen when the Starbucks opens,”
Starbucks could stealsome business, Pelley says
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Student enrollment increased20 percent between the 2007 to2012 fiscal years, while facultyand staff members were asked todo more work for less,Winterbauer said.
Tuition is gradually increas-ing because the University has tomake up for decreasing statefunding, she said.
Sixty-one percent of everyunrestricted budget dollar is paidto faculty and staff as salary andfringe benefits, she said.
“We don’t add on charges toyour housing fees to subsidizethe English department,”Winterbauer said.
She said the University’s time-line in working on the yearlybudget does not fit into a school’sschedule because it depends onthe state’s budget. Until the veryend of the state’s budget process,the University’s budget is up inthe air, she said.
“It’s important for you toknow that tuition is just a stickerprice [that doesn’t include finan-cial aid],” Winterbauer said.
Winterbauer said theUniversity is trying to get a docu-ment together that explains theoverall budget, so students willbe informed enough to deter-
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but still be able to use fossil fuelslike natural gas,” she said.
Hlavaty said there are threeplants in operation now that storeabout one megaton of carbondioxide per year.
“It’s very experimental. Theplant proposed in New Jerseywould have been the first large-scale power plant ... in the world,”she said. “This would have storedfive megatons.”
Next to renewable energies,or renewables, coal-fueled CCSplants are considered clean coal,Hlavaty said.
“There’s a market for this.When PurGen was proposed, peo-ple thought that maybe Congresswould pass legisla-tion putting a priceon carbon, inwhich case theywould have addi-tional revenuesfrom [releasing]carbon dioxide intothe atmosphere,”said Robert Kopp,associate directorof the RutgersEnergy Institute.
Although theelectricity-generat-ing plant would have been envi-ronmentally friendly, there was ahuge driving force against thePurGen project.
“[PurGen] would have beenprivate money, the governmentwould not be funding this proj-ect,” Hlavaty said.
Instead, naysayers focusedon increasing funding for ener-gy ef ficiency plants thatinvolve renewable and naturalgas projects.
“It’s basically the economicfeasibility. [Natural gas] is moreliked because we’re not miningfor it. You know, we mine for coal,or we strip mine, but natural gasis actually cheaper now than coal,per kilowatt hour, and it’s justmore favored and there [are] less[experiments],” Hlavaty said.
There was much oppositionfrom Gov. Chris Christie, a hugefactor in stopping the PurGenproject, she said.
“You do end upusing 25 to 40
percent more coalthan a normal
coal-burning plant.” CORIE HLAVATY
School of Environmental andBiological Sciences Senior
WHAT THE FRACK? Alex Epstein, founder of the Center forIndustrial Progress, discusses the benefits of fracking and othercontroversial energy technologies with students last night in the Busch Campus Center.NOAH WHITTENBURG, PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Three power plantstoday practice carbonsequestration
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Donors decided where money goes formore than 70 percent of endowments
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“It’s important foryou to know that
tuition is just a sticker price.”
NANCY WINTERBAUERVice President of
University Budgeting
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important for students to addressstate funding, Winterbauer said.
“Nothing is as effective in lob-bying Trenton as a voter saying‘we care about this,’”Winterbauer said. “What mattersis getting students engaged.”
Winterbauer said the morelegislators that see students whocare about the issues, the morelikely they are to receive help.
“There’s nothing like [legisla-tors] understanding what a state dol-lar means to you,” Winterbauer said.
The assembly also discussedstudent representatives to theBoard of Trustees.
Pamela Navrot, legislativeaffairs committee chair forRUSA, said the student represen-tative for the Board of Trustees isthe student body’s best opportu-nity to have a voice in one of theUniversity’s governing bodies.
Student, faculty and staff inputis important and underrepresent-ed in governing board meetings,said Navrot, a School of Arts andSciences sophomore.
Katherine Yabut, a representa-tive on the Board of Trustees, saidthe board is working to raiseawareness of a state bond referen-dum that, if passed, would approvea $750 million bond for capitalinvestments in higher education.
New Jersey requires state resi-dents to vote in a referendumbefore taking on debt, said Yabut, aSchool of Arts and Sciences junior.
Yabut said capital investmentrefers to higher education build-ings that do not generate incomefor their institutions.
Pelley said. “They might takesome of our business.”
Ward is more optimisticabout the competition.
“Dunkin’ is busy, the namesells itself,” he said. “I’m notsure if Starbucks will af fectour business.”
The two businesses are differ-ent, Ward said, and attract differ-ent clientele.
“Dunkin’ is more of a ‘grabyour coffee fast and go get onthe bus’ place,” he said.“Starbucks is more of a ‘orderyour coffee and hang out work-ing on your laptop’ kind of place.”
Carter said she might tryStarbucks because of its conven-ient location.
“I live in the [Livingston]apartments, and the Starbucksis closer, so I may go there,”she said. “It will depend onwho’s cheaper.”
But the Jordanians worr ythat Assad may use his chemi-cal weapons against his neighbors, or his countrymen,if he felt that his days in powerwere numbered.
In May, the U.S. held jointexercises with Jordan, nick-named the “Eager Lion,” whichfocused on the ways to deal witha chemical weapons attack.
On Wednesday, U.S. DefenseSecretary Leon Panetta said at aNATO conference of defenseministers in Brussels that theU.S. has been working withJordan to monitor chemical and
b i o l o g i c a lweapons sites inSyria and washelping Jordandeal with refugeespouring over theborder.
Although thesenior govern-ment officialinsisted that theAmericans were“advisers, not
troops,” two senior U.S. defenseofficials said most were Armyspecial operations forces. TheU.S. officials spoke on conditionof anonymity because they werenot authorized to comment pub-licly about the mission.
The troops are operating outof a military center near Ammanand have moved back and forth tothe Syrian border. Their workinvolves gathering intelligenceand planning joint Jordanian-U.S.military maneuvers, one U.S. offi-cial said.
The revelation of U.S. militarypersonnel so close to the Syrianconflict suggests an escalation in
the American involvement, evenas the Obama administrationpushes back on any suggestion ofa direct intervention in Syria.
The Jordanian official insist-ed that the kingdom was “capa-ble of shielding itself fromSyrian attack,” but London-based Mideast analystRosemary Hollis disagreed.
“For Jordan, the more unsta-ble Syria becomes, the deeper thecrisis proceeds, the more likelyJordan will suffer from all kindsof spillover, but they are inca-pable of doing anything to inter-vene to try to turn the conflict inone direction rather than anotherunless they have the ballast,cover and involvement of seriousinternational forces, which is theAmericans,” Hollis said.
She also saw the Americanmilitary presence as a steptoward possible future militaryoperations to secure Syria’schemical stockpiles.
Torbjorn Soltvedt, a senioranalyst with the Britain-basedMaplecroft risk analysis group,said he saw the current situa-tion as a “monitoring and train-ing stage.”
“Given the degree to whichSyria’s chemical weapons stock-piles have been dispersed acrossthe country, an operation tosecure them would be extensiveand require significant numbersof troops,” he said. “ThePentagon has estimated that anoperation to secure Syria’s chem-ical weapons stockpiles couldrequire as much as 75,000 troopsgiven the presence of severalchemical agent manufacturingplants and many more storagesites throughout the country.”
Amman — home to nearly half ofJordan’s population.
There is also talk of contin-gency plans for a quick pre-emp-tive strike if Assad loses controlover his stock of chemicalweapons in the civil war. The fearis that those weapons might oth-erwise fall into the hands of al-Qaida or Lebanon’s Islamic mili-tant group Hezbollah.
“There are dangers involved,and we have toensure the safetyof our country andthe well-being ofour citizens,” asenior govern-ment official saidin the first publicJordanian confir-mation of the pres-ence of foreignmilitary personnelhere. “We are ben-efiting from the experience ofour allies as we prepare for theworst scenarios.”
The presence of some 150Americans at the King AbdullahII Special Operations TrainingCenter northeast of the capital isa clear message to Assad thatJordan’s longtime Western alliesstand ready to defend the coun-try if it is dragged into the 19-month Syria conflict.
Assad’s regime, which isbelieved to have one of theworld’s largest chemical weaponsprograms, has said it might usethem against external threats butnot against Syrians.
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US forces plan shield against Syria
Meningitisoutbreakgrowing
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USSEIFEH, Jordan — Fromthe edge of a steep mountainoverlooking a desert compoundbuilt into an old rock quarry,machine gunfire echoes just out-side hangars where U.S. specialoperations forces are trainingJordanian commandos.
The Americans, who arrivedin the kingdom a few weeks agoat the request of the Jordanians,are helping them develop tech-niques to protect civilians in caseof a chemical attack from neigh-boring Syria, according toJordanian officials.
On the Syrian border farthernorth, British military officersrecently assessed the dangers ofrockets constantly falling on thekingdom and ways to shield theJordanian population and Syrianrefugees as President BasharAssad widens his military offen-sive against rebel enclaves in thevicinity, according to Jordan-based Western diplomats.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II hasrepeatedly discussed plans forreinforcing security along theSyrian border and expressed con-cern over Syria’s chemical stock-piles in meetings with visitingWestern allies, according to thetwo diplomats, who monitor Syriafrom their base.
They said it is believed thatAbdullah has also been shoppingaround for an anti-missiledefense system to shield hisdensely populated capital,
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WASHINGTON — Federalhealth of ficials have trackeddown 12,000 of the roughly14,000 people who may havereceived contaminated steroidshots in the nation’s growingmeningitis outbreak, warningThursday that patients willneed to keep watch for symp-toms of the deadly infection for months.
“We know that we are notout of the woods yet,” Dr. J.Todd Weber of the Centers forDisease Control andPrevention said as the deathtoll reached 14.
Of the 170 people sickenedin the outbreak, all but onehave a rare fungal form ofmeningitis after receiving sus-pect steroid shots for backpain, the CDC said. The othercase is an ankle infection dis-covered in Michigan; steroidshots also can be given to treataching knees, shoulders orother joints.
Fungus has been found in atleast 50 vials of an injectablesteroid medication made at aspecialty compounding pharma-cy in Massachusetts, investiga-tors said. Health authoritieshaven’t yet said how they thinkthe medication was contaminat-ed, but they have ruled out othersuspects — other products usedin administering the shots —and the focus continues to be onthat pharmacy, the New EnglandCompounding Center.
Compounding pharmaciestraditionally supply productsthat aren’t commercially avail-able, unlike the steroid at issuein the outbreak. And Dr.Madeleine Biondolillo of theMassachusetts Department ofPublic Health said it appearsthe company violated state lawgoverning those pharmacies,which aren’t supposed to dolarge-scale production like adrug manufacturer. Instead,they’re supposed to producemedication for patient-specificprescriptions, she said.
“This organization chose toapparently violate the licensingrequirements under which theywere allowed to operate,” shetold reporters Thursday.
Company of ficials weren’timmediately available to com-ment Thursday but earlier thisweek declined comment exceptto say they were cooperatingwith the investigation.
Idaho becomes the 11th stateto report at least one illness. Theothers are Florida, Indiana,Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota,New Jersey, North Carolina,Ohio, Tennessee and Virginia.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II has discussed plans for implementing more security along the Syrian border. Diplomats who monitorSyria said that Abdullah is also looking for an anti-missile defense system to shield the capital. GETTY IMAGES
14 dead out of14,000 possiblyinfected by shots
Americans help train Jordanians in case of chemical attack from Syria
“For Jordan, the more unstable
Syria becomes, the deeper the
crisis proceeds.” ROSEMARY HOLLIS
Mideast Analyst
and Romney met in the first oftheir three debates — anencounter that has fueled aRepublican comeback in the polls.
With Democrats eager forBiden to show the spark thepresident lacked, he did so earlyand often.
Unprompted, he brought upthe videotape where Romneyhad said 47 percent of Americanspay no federal income tax andview themselves as victims whodo not take responsibility fortheir own lives.
“It’s about time they takeresponsibility” instead of signingpledges to avoid raising taxes,Biden said of Romney, Ryan andthe Republicans.
But Ryan quickly recited thedreary economic statistics — 23million are struggling to work,he said, and 15 percent of thecountry is living in poverty.“This is not what a real recoverylooks like.”
Romney has gained ground innational and battleground-statesurveys in the week since heshared a stage with the president,and even Obama has concededhe performed poorly.
Asked directly when they couldreduce unemployment to 6 per-cent from the current 7.8 percent,neither man answered directly.
Instead, Biden repeated thepresident’s contention that thenation is moving in the rightdirection, while Ryan repeatedthe Republican view that eco-nomic struggle persists eventhough Democrats had control
of both houses of Congress dur-ing the first two years ofObama’s term.
“Where are the 5 milliongreen jobs” we were told wouldbe created? Ryan said to Biden.
Republicans and Democratsalike have said in recent days therace now approximates the com-petitive situation in place beforethe two political conventions. Thetwo men are generally separatedby a point or two in national pub-lic opinion polls and in severalbattleground states, with Obamaholding a slender lead in Ohioand Wisconsin.
Both men campaigned duringthe day as their political partnersprepped for their moment on thedebate stage.
Mocking recent changes inRomney’s rhetoric, Obama told aMiami rally yesterday, “After run-ning for more than a year inwhich he called himself severelyconservative, Mitt Romney is try-ing to convince you that he wasseverely kidding.”
Romney visited with 93-year-old Billy Graham in NorthCarolina before speaking to anevening rally in Asheville, N.C.“Prayer is the most helpfulthing you can do for me,” hetold the evangelist.
For Biden, last night’s debatewas his first since the 2008 cam-paign, when he shared a stagewith Sarah Palin, then JohnMcCain’s running mate.
Ryan spars frequently withDemocrats during debates on leg-islation on the House floor and inthe House Budget Committee,which he chairs, but not in a one-on-one encounter covering 90minutes and a virtually unlimitedrange of topics.
For all their differences, thetwo men shared a common objec-tive, to advance the cause of theirtickets in a close race for the pres-idency — and avoid a gaffe thatmight forever seal their place inthe history of debates.
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Yemeni security officerfor US embassy killed
Biden, Ryan face off in debate
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SANAA, Yemen — A drive-byshooting yesterday that killed atop Yemeni security official whoworked at the U.S. Embassy inSanaa has raised concern that al-Qaida militants here are bounc-ing back and getting bolder aftersuffering defeats this year in aU.S.-Yemeni military offensive.
Al-Qaida in Yemen has carriedout a string of assassinations oftop security and military officialsand deadly suicide bombings inrecent months. Security officialssaid they believe it has a hit list tokill more in an attempt to paralyzeYemen’s new leadership installedthis year and throw the anti-al-Qaida assaults into turmoil.
The new killing also raises thepossibility the group could turnits assassination campaignagainst American interests aswell. The group has sought toride the recent wave of angeragainst the United States over ananti-Islam film by calling forattacks on American and otherforeign diplomatic missions.
In yesterday’s attack,embassy security officialQassem Aqlani was on his way towork when a masked gunman ona motorcycle opened fire on himand fled the scene, officials said.The attack was near Aqlani’shome in western Sanaa, whilethe embassy is located in theeastern part of the capital.Aqlani, who was in his 50s, hadbeen working for the embassyfor 11 years, according to theU.S. State Department.
Drive-by shooting leads to concernthat al-Qaida aremaking comeback
Martha Raddatz moderates the debate last night between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan. Neither Biden nor Ryan answered directly when asked about a solutionto lower the unemployment rate. GETTY IMAGES
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DANVILLE, Ky. — At odds inan instant, Republican Paul Ryancited the death of the U.S. ambas-sador in Libya as evidence lastnight that the administration’sforeign policy is unraveling. VicePresident Joe Biden shot back incampaign debate, “That is abunch of malarkey.”
“Not a single thing he said isaccurate,” Democrat Bidendeclared in the openingmoments of the only debatebetween the two vice presiden-tial candidates in a national cam-paign with a little less than fourweeks left to run.
Both men seemed primed fora showdown in their openingmoments on stage.
Ryan said the administrationhad accorded insufficient securi-ty to Ambassador Chris Stevens,who was killed in a terroristattack at the U.S. Consulate inBenghazi on Sept. 11.
Biden said the budget thatRyan authored as chairman ofthe House Budget Committeehad cut the Obama administra-tion’s funding request for diplo-matic security by $300 million.
The two men also tangledover the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan, administration stepsto prevent Iran from developing anuclear weapon and relationswith Israel, an area whereRepublican presidential candi-date Mitt Romney frequentlyaccuses President Barack Obamaof letting down the United States’closest ally in the Middle East.
Biden, 69, repeatedly accusedRyan of misstating the facts —“this is a bunch of stuff,” heerupted at one point.
But the 42-year-old Wisconsincongressman stood his ground.Iran is “four years closer” to hav-ing a nuclear weapon as Obama’sterm nears its end, he said.
The debate took place a littlemore than a week after Obama
GLOBAL REACH U.S. border patrol agents prepare to fold a flag off the casket of border control agent Nicholas Ivie at a graveside service in Spanish Fork cemetary yesterday in Spanish Fork, Utah. Ivie was shot to death as he was patrollingthe U.S. Mexican border on Oct. 2 near Naco, Arizona.GETTY IMAGES
“That is a bunch of malarkey.
Not a single thinghe said is accurate.”
JOE BIDENVice President
Yemeni security officials saidthe attack was similar to previousassassinations by al-Qaida,although they said it was tooearly to confirm the group’sinvolvement. The officials spokeon condition of anonymitybecause they were not author-ized to talk to the press.
There are increased concernsover security at Americanembassies in the region after lastmonth’s deadly attack by mili-tants against a U.S. diplomaticmission in Benghazi that killedthe U.S ambassador to Libya andthree other Americans.Protesters also stormed severalU.S. embassies in Arab nations— including the one in Sanaa —in outrage over the film denigrat-ing the Prophet Muhammad.
An elite team of about 50 U.S.Marines sent to bolster securityat the Sanaa embassy after theSept. 13 attack was scheduled toleave the country later yesterday,Yemeni officials said. It was notclear whether Aqlani’s slayingwould affect those plans.
There was no sign ofincreased security around theU.S. Embassy in Sanaa, whichhas already been heavily fortifiedwith new protective measuresamid the turmoil surroundinglast year’s uprising against then-president Ali Abdullah Saleh.Security was tightened evenmore after the protestersstormed the compound lastmonth. They climbed over thewalls, damaged some buildingsand took down the U.S flagbefore they were driven out byYemeni soldiers.
Since then, the main road thatleads to the embassy is sealed offby cement blocks and threecheckpoints limit access, withcars scanned for explosives.Yemeni troops and armoredvehicles also are stationed nearthe building.
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Earlier this week, nj.com ran astory about a Spring Lake, N.J., busi-ness owner with an apparent grudgeagainst President Barack Obama.According to the article, the man’sstorefront window display features theface of the president, Photoshoppedonto the almost-naked body of whatappears to be an aboriginal shaman, ofsorts. Underneath, the “ObamaCare”slogan is shown. We know this isAmerica and all — free speech, yadayada yada — but please, have someclass. A dart to the business ownerand his controversial display.
Faculty, students and politiciansspoke out Tuesday about the“Building Our Future Bond Act” andhow, if passed, it will bring somemuch needed stimulus to the state’sailing higher education infrastruc-ture on the steps of BrowerCommons on the College Avenuecampus. Among those in attendancewere University President Robert L.Barchi, State Senate President SteveSweeney and former Gov. TomKean. The proposed bond needs asmuch attention and support as it canget — so we laurel the rally.
In an almost — emphasis onalmost — tear-jerking interview with“Esquire” magazine, Gov. ChrisChristie lamented his spur-of-the-moment decision to call a NavySEAL an “idiot” at one of his townhall meetings. The original incidentChristie is alluding to involves aNavy SEAL named Bill Brown, whointerrupted Christie with a bout ofcriticism during an early town hallmeeting. The stuff of soap operas,Christie’s heartfelt confession helpsto paint him in a more modest light.He’s a man with feelings, too, people.A laurel to Christie for showing ushis heart hasn’t completely iced over.
You’ve seen him. He’s that guy,you know, the one from the footballgames? The self-proclaimed “KingOf Sandy Hook” — a manly, cow-boy hat-wearing, Mike’s HardLimeade-drinking son-of-a-gun,whose killer “tantoos” bring all theladies — and dudes — to the yard.Yeah. That guy. We’d like to laurelthat guy because, well, what wouldScarlet Knight stadium games andtailgate parties be like withouthim? We shudder to think of it. Allhail to the King of Sandy Hook, weare unworthy.
In a blacked-out stadium of morethan 50,000 strong, the Universityfootball team crushed UConn(UCan’t?) 19-3 during its fifth gameof the season this past weekend.The Knights’ run defense wasunparalleled, and the win continuestheir undefeated record of 5-0. Forthis, we give the Knights a laurel.Next up: Syracuse, who’ll face theKnights on Saturday at High PointSolutions Stadium. If (when) theKnights win again, you can be suretheir victory will be celebrated withanother University-wide “blackout”— albeit, of a slightly different kind.Oops.
As if last week’s presidentialdebate wasn’t enough of a free-for-all, watchers of Wednesday night’ssenate debate between Sen. RobertMenendez (D-N.J.) and challengerSen. Joe Kyrillos (R-N.J.) will havefound it even more nerve-wracking.Speaking over each other and themoderator, the two N.J. politicianswent at it with a level of fervor rarelyseen in state politics — and now werealize why. We dart the way thetwo conducted themselves, andhope their next meeting will be a lit-tle less … loud.
A girl’s got to eat, so Ithought it would be fun to scopeout some cool pubs and barswhere I could get a nice bite offood. This proved more chal-lenging than I thought. As Ispent pound after pound onmeals, I realized that the miss-ing factor was always the same— flavor. Seasoning and spiceare apparently not important tothe British. The tastiest mealI’ve gotten from England so farcame from the McDonald’s“pound menu.” And if I’m beinghonest, my burger from MickeyD’s left my stomach feeling farless grease-filled than the fish nchips I got while in England’ssea shore capital of Brighton.The lesson I have learned:Unless you’re going to splurgeand eat at a high-end restaurant(or McDonald’s), you are betteroff saving the money and cook-ing a meal at home.
I have to admit that I am areal fashion buf f and nothingattracts me more than a win-dow filled with shoes. I foundmy personal nirvana on OxfordStreet, which stretches for oneand a half miles, and is occu-pied by almost solely shoppingdestinations. Luckily for me,my little piece of paradise is acouple of tube transfers awayfrom where I’m staying, mak-ing it a little more dif ficult toescape to and suck me dry ofall my money. Between
Harrods, London’s most luxuri-ous and expensive departmentstore and Topshop — whichalso has locations in New YorkCity but is much more popularhere — if you have money tospend you’ll have a place to doso. In the meantime, while Iwork on meeting a millionaire,most of the girls have beendoing their shopping atPrimark, which is kind ofequivalent to a Target or anupscale Walmart. It isn’t thebest of stores, but hey. Nothingbeats a sweater for 10 pounds.
My most well-spent fivepounds since I’ve been herewas on a ticket to see MarkRylance, one of England’s mostwell-known and respectedactors, per form inShakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”at The Globe Theatre. I’venever been to a production ofShakespeare where the audi-ence roared with laughter asloud as they did during this per-formance. Now money can’tbuy you love or very much ofanything else here in London,but for five pounds, it can buyyou the opportunity to seesome of the best theatre in thewhole world.
This is what is so great andredeeming about London.Although there are placeswhere you may have to sellyour soul for a cup of cof fee,the city is booming with freemuseums, culture and experi-ences that you don’t have tospend a penny on. And for thebrilliant theater: Skip out oncof fee for two days and spendthe five pounds on that instead.
Katie Bryck is a School of Artsand Sciences senior majoring injournalism and media studies.
A s I reached for my wal-let to pay for my three-pound cup of cof fee I
heard the voices of friends andfamily saying, “You’ll have fun,but London is very expensive.”So it turns out that these peo-ple, whom I had taken as pes-simists tr ying to ruin myexcitement of studying abroad,were very right. I knew uponcoming to London, the largestmetropolitan area in theUnited Kingdom, that thingswould be pricey, but I neverthought that I would be afraidto check my bank account.
Granted, I am devoting a lotof my time to traveling, site-seeing and getting to knowthis enormous and beautifulcity, but I would still appreciatenot having to spend threepounds on a cof fee. For thosereading, this would be equiva-lent to roughly five Americandollars. What?
For me it turns out that mydownfall lies in this conver-sion. Having the U.S. currencyso deeply engrained into mymind when I hear, “threepounds please” I think tomyself, that isn’t half bad.Until I do the math. It didn’ttake me long to switch over toinstant cof fee from the localsupermarket. As I instantlymade my cup of Joe, I instantlyadded 20 pounds to my pocketafter one week. This was thefirst of many realizations I had helping me to not go bank-rupt overseas.
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T his election year is espe-cially exciting for me.Besides this being the
first year I am able to vote in apresidential election, I am alsoinvolved with coordinating elec-tion coverage at The DailyTargum and in turn, I stay up-to-date on all things elections.
There are three elections stu-dents should care about that aren’tfocused on in the media as much asthe presidential election, despitetheir importance and the effectthese soon-to-be-elected officialswill have on our lives. Sen. RobertMenendez is fighting for his re-election against challenger,Republican Sen. Joe Kyrillos. Oneof them will ultimately make deci-sions on the state’s behalf aboutgovernment funding and healthcare. Same goes for the congres-sional election, in which incumbentCongressman Frank Pallone is fac-ing off against Republican candi-date Anna Little.
A much smaller election, butperhaps one that could determinewhether or not we see changesaround New Brunswick, featuresan unopposed democratic partyvying for three seats on CityCouncil. This is a little disconcert-ing, as this city is in need of majorreform in many areas such as pub-lic education, crime and litter.Though these people will most cer-tainly win the election, requests forchange must be brought to them atweekly city council meetings inCity Hall every other Wednesdayat 6:30 p.m. in downtown New Brunswick.
Aside from voting for the manyrepresentatives up for election,there are referendum questions atthe bottom of the ballot that are ofcrucial importance to students inthis area. One is the Building OurFuture bond act for higher educa-tion that would give $750 million toN.J. colleges, including theUniversity, to build updated facili-ties. If you go to this school, youcan’t deny the need for such an act.
Register to vote,then vote
“If you go to this school,you can’t deny the need
for such an act. ”
Money can’t buy you love
LETTERS FROMLONDON
KATIE BRYCK
PostcardsfromAbroad
“As I instantly made mycup of Joe, I instantly
added 20 pounds to mypocket after one week.”
FRONT-LINES
AMY ROWE
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
You can’t romanticize poverty. It’s real and deeply spiritual.
Rev. Doug Shepler of the Second Reformed Church, on the experiences individualsgo through living in poverty. See the story in UNIVERSITY.
So please remember to vote yes onthis question near the bottom ofyour voter ballot come Election Day.
If you live off-campus like I doand you are registered in NewBrunswick, you should also besure to vote for the referendumquestion that if passed, wouldrequire officials serving on theNew Brunswick Board ofEducation to be elected, notappointed by Mayor James Cahill.This is crucial, because the schoolsystem is failing with an abysmalhigh school graduation rate, andthe parents whose children attendthe school should be able to decidewho serves on the board. Theyknow best what the climate is likewithin the schools and whatchanges need to be made.
For those who might readthis and think voting is a chore,you need to know it really isn’t. Iregistered in less than three min-utes at a music festival in July.There are efforts all over cam-pus to get registered. If you real-ly don’t know how to register,you should check out ruvot-ing.rutgers.edu before the dead-line, which is quickly approach-ing Oct. 16. There’s an entireeffort from the Rutgers StudentVoter Coalition, that aims to get7,000 University students regis-tered by the deadline. At aschool this large, their targetshould be much more than that.
If you are registered in yourhometown and don’t think you’ll beable to get back there to vote, aquick address change is all youneed. You can also vote by absen-tee ballot by downloading a mail-in application here:www.nj.gov/state/elections/voting-information-vote-by-mail.html.Before today, I thought absenteeballots were only counted in a tiesituation, but I learned they areactually counted with the rest of thevotes cast in person at polling loca-tions. This is the solution for youlazy kids out there who don’t wantto physically go to the polls Nov. 6.
Voting is really important andeveryone should take advantage ofthis awesome right we have. If youdon’t vote and are unhappy withoutcome of all these elections, youhave no room to complain and noone to blame but yourself. Yourvote really can make a difference.
Amy Rowe is a School of Artsand Sciences senior majoring injournalism and media studies withminors in art history and Americanstudies. She is the news editor forThe Daily Targum.
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Doonesberry GARY TRUDEAU
Horoscopes / LINDA C. BLACK Pearls Before Swine STEPHAN PASTIS
Happy Hour JIM AND PHIL
Today's Birthday (10/12/12). Learning through study, research and actu-al exploration grows your skills, talents and specialties this year. Spiritualityflourishes. Follow passions where they lead, with the foundation of a solidfinancial plan. Practice adaptability with an open mind. To get the advan-tage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (Mar. 21-April 19) —Today is an 8 — Stay put for awhile longer. Both financial andsocial planning take on newimportance. Don't worry aboutthe money, just get into actionand solve a puzzle.Taurus (April 20-May 20) —Today is a 9 — Celebrate later:Now's time for action. Redesignyour priorities, set a juicy goaland get the funding. You can getyour bills paid. Trust a hunch.Gemini (May 21-June 20) —Today is a 9 — Now's a goodtime for nesting and penny-pinching. Learn a new trick togive a second life to what youthought was trash. You're mak-ing a good impression.Cancer (June 21-July 22) —Today is a 9 — You can handlethe work obstacles coming atyou. Access your best communi-cation skills. Send informationto those who need it. All endswell and love prevails.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today isan 8 — A friend helps you find abug in your system. Turn up thecharm, and up the ante at work.Exceptional patience is required.Focusing on someone you lovemakes the task at hand easier.Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Todayis a 9 — Speak up and listen. Youropinion is important, but don'tget tangled up in an argument,especially at work. Create team-work. Achieve the goal, despitethe circumstances. Get outdoors.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Todayis a 7 — Avoid taking risks, unlessyou're willing to learn the lesson.You may need to be a sterntaskmaster. Search for ways to cutcosts. It all works out.Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) —Today is a 9 — You get a lotdone quickly, especially withoutdistraction. Count your bless-ings. Go for what you want, andenjoy what you have. Get thefamily to join in.Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) —Today is a 9 — Invest your timeand energy wisely. Your productiv-ity is on the rise, and you emergevictorious once again. Don't giveup. It's easier than it seems.Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —Today is a 9 — Get yourantiques appraised, and maketravel plans. The road ahead isfull of fun surprises, so enjoythem. Words come out easily;use them to make a difference.Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) —Today is a 7 — Be prepared todo some walking. Foot comfortis essential. When one door clos-es, another one opens. Findinganother source of revenue is agood idea. List passions.Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) —Today is a 9 — Hold your tem-per ... someone could get hurt.Rage into a pillow. Don't takeyour gifts for granted. Clean upto improve living conditionswithout spending. You're attract-ed to neatness.
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F ormer Rutgers seniorassistant athletic directorRita Kay Thomas passed
away Wednesday.Thomas held the position
from 1972-2001. Her accomplish-ments include helping upholdTitle IX regulations by oversee-ing the transition of women’ssports from 1975-1984.
She was responsible for allaspects of administration andleadership of the originalwomen’s programs, includingthe hiring and evaluation ofcoaches, scheduling, game con-tracts, budgeting and eligibilityof student-athletes.
Thomas also served as headtennis coach during her tenure.
Donations can be made to theRita Kay Thomas Memorial Fundat the Cancer Institute of NewJersey Foundation.
COLLEGE FOOTBALLcommentator Carroll H.“Beano” Cook passed away yes-terday, the University ofPittsburgh announced.
After spending more than ayear at Army in the mid-1950s,Cook served as Pittsburgh’ssports information director from1956-1966.
Cook joined ESPN in 1986 asa studio commentator, and “fewanalysts have matched Cook’swit, passion or knowledge ofcollege football,” according toCBS Sports.
Pitt unveiled the Beano CookMedia Room inside the PetersenEvents Center when the arenaopened in 2002.
“He loved the University ofPittsburgh, and his name is syn-onymous with all good things atPitt,” said Pitt Athletic DirectorSteve Pederson.
THE ALABAMA FOOTBALLteam is the best team in thecountry according to human vot-ers, but the BCS computersvoted Florida as the No. 1 teamin the nation, according toYahoo! Sports, which looked atfive of the six rankings used bythe BCS.
Notre Dame, SouthCarolina, West Virginia andAlabama round out the top fivein that order.
The standings could potentially change Sunday,when the first of ficial poll is released.
Alabama, Florida, Oregon andNotre Dame stand first overall inat least one poll.
NEW YORK JETS NOSEtackle Kendrick Ellis will missfour to six weeks with a sprainedmedial collateral ligament in hisleft knee.
Head coach Rex Ryan con-firmed yesterday that the backuplineman will miss at least amonth after getting injured inMonday’s 23-17 loss to theHouston Texans.
Ryan also said safety EricSmith will miss New York’sgame Sunday againstIndianapolis after spraining hisknee Wednesday while trying toknock a pass down in practice.Tests revealed a sprain, andRyan was relieved Smith’s injurywas not worse.
Ryan hopes center NickMangold, tight end DustinKeller and wide receiverStephen Hill will be healthyagainst the Colts.
IN BRIEF
O’Rourke is simply differentfrom Correa.
“I’m taking his position andall, but we have different kind ofroles,” O’Rourke said. “J.P.’s a lit-tle more creative on the ball espe-cially. For me it’s a lot more — Idon’t want to say defensive — butit’s a lot more working on thedefensive end to try to createmore opportunities going for-ward.”
O’Rourke utilizes his defen-sive tactics when Rutgers (5-5-1,1-2-1) loses the ball on the offen-sive end, which helps slow downopponents’ transitions to offense.
Correa was more of an offen-sive weapon, but O’Rourke’s playallows Rutgers to be defensive oneach third of the field.
Then O’Rourke has no prob-lem speeding back.
“He’s one of, if not the most fitkids on the team,” said senior
Sophomore bringsdefensive presence to scoring position
MOMENTUM
CONTINUED FROM BACK
Sophomore forward J.P. Correa only played four games becauseof a season-ending hip injury. He had surgery on it in February.PAT DAVITT / NOVEMBER 2011
goalie Kevin McMullen. “He canjust run for 90 minutes and thensome. He’s able to pressureteams and still manage to haveenough energy to go at teamsand attack.”
Scoring was not part ofO’Rourke’s résumé until he gotRutgers off to an ideal startagainst the Terrapins onMaryland’s home field.
O’Rourke is different fromCorrea, but by recording a goalafter transitioning to striker, a lit-tle bit of Correa’s game lived on.
If O’Rourke needs to do thesame damage tonight againstDePaul (3-8-2, 0-4) at YurcakField and for the rest of the sea-son, McMullen at least knowsO’Rourke believes in himself nowmore than ever.
“Genius move by Donigan,”McMullen said of O’Rourke’sposition change. “I was waitingfor [him to score] three gamesbefore that, but to come out andscore against Maryland, his con-fidence is going to be sky-high.”
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FIELD HOCKEY LOUISVILLE-RUTGERS, TODAY, 3 P.M.
“Each team brings a differentspecial player or a different needdefensively, but essentially weare doing everything very muchthe same way as we have beenthe last two weeks.” Crooks said.
Rutgers’ forward rotation alsohas remain unchanged. WhileCrooks has shuffled around hisstarting lineup in most of itsmatches, he has settled on theforward trio of DeVolk, juniorJonelle Filigno and sophomoreCassie Inacio to begin games.
He is also confident with thedepth at the position and canafford to substitute all three,even if it means taking its leadingscorer in Filigno out for a littleduring stretch runs.
“We have good people inreserve,” Crooks said. “We havebeen running five or six forwardsand they can all run at players.”
The forward depth includessophomore Stefanie Scholz, whofound the back of the net in thefirst half of Rutgers’ 2-2 tieSunday with No. 24 Notre Dame.
With depth in the front, Rutgerscan aggressively attack Louisville’s
Starting forwardsremain same as restof lineup shuffles
MATCHUPS
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Sophomore forward Cassie Inacio took 16 shots in as many games played this season, recordingone assist. She started 10 matches as a freshman. NELSON MORALES, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
League loss means end of playoff hopes for RUBY ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ
STAFF WRITER
The Rutgers field hockeyteam tries to get one step closerto accomplishing its preseasongoal of making the Big EastTournament today when it takeson Louisville.
After starting Big East play0-3, the Scarlet Knights pulledout a victor y last weekendagainst Georgetown, 5-1. TheKnights (7-6, 1-3) now need towin the rest of their Big Eastgames — versus Louisville andthen next weekend atProvidence — to have any hopeof making the tournament.
“I think [today] we are real-ly looking for the team to exe-cute the things we have beenworking on and training forthis week,” said head coachMeredith Long. “We have had asolid week of training, and themain emphasis has been on fin-ishing our opportunities insidethe attacking 25 and on high-pressure team defense.”
After watching film, theKnights coaching staf f feelswith the Cardinals’ structure atmidfield, the Knights’ style canbe effective.
The Knights have neverbeaten the Cardinals (8-6, 1-2),going 0-7 in the all-time series.The last time the two teamsmet was Oct. 9, 2011, when theCardinals defeated theKnights, 4-2.
“We are looking to carr ymomentum from last week,”said senior for ward CarlieRouh. “We want to come outhow we ended withGeorgetown.”
This year has been a transi-tional period for the Knights,who rely more on an up-tempostyle of play. With two
Senior forward Carlie Rouh dropped to seventh on the team in points despite recording a team-high 39 shots. Rouh and Rutgersface a three-game stretch during the next week that will determine their postseason fate. ALEX VAN DRIESEN
consecutive victories, theKnights’ maturation with thenew style has shown.
“This is a group of womenthat really want to win and besuccessful,” Long said. “Insome of our tougher games, wehave really learned what ittakes and seen what it takes toget to that next level. We arewilling to go there. The teamwants it and is willing to give achampionship ef for t. As a
coaching staf f, that is excitingto see.”
Several Knights are comingoff a great week of practice,including senior forwardCornelia Duffin, junior forwardLisa Patrone and sophomoremidfielder Sophie Wright, Long said.
Patrone looks to continue herhot streak against the Cardinals.In her past two games withLouisville, Patrone has recorded
four goals and two assists. Patronehas totaled 19 points this season.
“I am very happy with how wehave prepared,” Long said. “Theteam has been consistentthroughout the week. They knowwhat they need to do and they areup for the challenge.”
Senior midfielder ChristieLonsky, who suffered a dislocatedshoulder Sept. 29 againstVillanova, is expected to returnfor the matchup against the
Cardinals. Long does not antici-pate needing to limit Lonsky.
After the game againstLouisville, the Knights travel toEaston, Pa., on Sunday to takeon Lafayette.
“I think that we do well when weare down,” Rouh said. “We knowhow to fight when we are down,and we do well when we are underpressure. There isn’t somethingspecific that we do different. Wejust come together and play hard.”
back four to convert more oppor-tunities around the box.
“It is important. If we can’tscore games, we don’t wingames, and we have beenstruggling to put the ball in theback of the net recently,”DeVolk said. “So getting inbehind people and gettingmore opportunities will behuge for us this weekend.”
The Knights are running out oftime to turn those opportunitiesinto goals, wins and a trip to thepostseason. After tonight’s matchupagainst the Cardinals, Rutgershosts Cincinnati on Sunday andconcludes its regular season nextFriday with a trip to South Orange,N.J., to play Seton Hall.
The top-four teams in bothdivisions get an automatic spotin the Big East Tournament.The setup leaves two remainingspots for the 10-team postsea-son field, determined by pointsper game.
Rutgers sits in 12th in pointsper game, so with three leaguegames remaining, it still has achance to creep into the top 10.
But Crooks wants the team totake its approach with one teamat a time, and that begins tonightagainst Louisville.
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we’re doing this year. Hopefullythey see the improvements we’vemade on the court and get a bet-ter feel for what we are doing.”
No. 17 Louisville and reigningBig East Champion Cincinnatiswept Rutgers (15-6, 1-5) lastweekend in consecutive matches.Now entering a crucial part of theschedule, Werneke notes theimportance of the weekend forthe Knights.
“This is a critical set of twomatches,” he said. “We focusedour week on getting better on ourside and paying attention to thelittle details that have been plagu-ing us over the start of the BigEast season. I think the mindsetis, ‘Hey, listen, let’s take care ofbusiness on our side.’ We under-stand that this weekend is a verycritical weekend for us.”
Rutgers has come out flat oflate, which causes it to play from
behind for many matches. As theopportunities to rack up confer-ence wins become fewer, theKnights hope to find a way togrind out victories that keep theirhopes of a Big East Tournamentberth alive.
“The goal all year long andexpectation within our programfrom our coaches and players hasbeen to make the Big EastTournament,” Werneke said.“With the slow start and some
things not going our way early on,this weekend’s home stance isvital to attaining that goal. … A lotof our focus has been on Syracusethis week, but also on our prepa-ration and some of the things thathave been plaguing us over thelast four weeks.”
The Knights hold a 16-7 all-time series record against theOrange. With Rutgers returninghome, it not only looks to addanother win to the series, but toreturn to its winning ways.
“First and foremost, we haveto focus on Syracuse,” he said.“Some of the things that we haveto do well against them is wehave to serve aggressively. Ithink that they’re going to playtremendous defense, and wehave to handle our side of thecourt by eliminating unforcederrors and being more efficientlate in the game.”
The Knights want not only toperform at a high level againstthe Orange, but also Sundaywhen they take on rival and BigEast-leading Marquette (15-3, 5-0). Rutgers takes on the GoldenEagles at 2 p.m. in its annual “DigPink” match to raise awarenessand help in the fight againstbreast cancer.
Werneke believes it is not a“make-or-break weekend” for thesquad, but he still had the teamprepare intensely for the impor-tant matches.
“It’s always great to play athome,” Werneke said. “There area number of factors — comfort,playing in our home gym — butalso the crowd and the supportfrom the community and the stu-dent body has been fantastic thisyear. Anytime we’re playing infront of a great home crowd, wejust end up playing at a high level.”
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VOLLEYBALL SYRACUSE-RUTGERS, TONIGHT, 6 P.M.
BY ERIC DIMETROSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Rutgers men’s crosscountry team travels to Princetontomorrow to compete in a 24-team Princeton Invitational.
The Scarlet Knights want toimprove on their sixth-place fin-ish last week in the MetropolitanChampionships.
Head coach Mike Mulqueenhopes for improvement fromthe team.
“After last race, we really justwant to do better,” Mulqueensaid. “We had a good meetingafter the last race, and a lot ofgood came out of it.”
Tough competition awaits RU at Princeton InviteMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY PRINCETON INVITATIONAL, TOMORROW
BY AARON FARRARSTAFF WRITER
Alumni of the Rutgers volley-ball team along with the rest ofthe Scarlet Knights communityprepare to welcome the teamhome this weekend. The Knightsreturn to their home floor after a1-3 Big East road trip, picking uptheir sole conference victorySept. 30 at Georgetown.
Rutgers celebrates “AlumniWeekend” and tips it off tonightwith a 6 p.m. showdown againstSyracuse (9-11, 1-4). The Knightswelcome former Knights to theplace where they used to playduring their respective tenures.
“We’re always excited to haveour alumni come back on cam-pus,” said head coach CJWerneke. “They get to spendtime getting familiar with the pro-gram and where we are and what
Rutgers returns home to battle two Big East foes
Senior setter Stephanie Zielinski and the Knights enter arguably their most pivotal month of the season after a 1-3 start to conference play. Zielinski passed the900-assist mark for the season Oct. 7 in a three-set loss to Big East foe Louisville. CONOR ALWELL, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
“We understandthat this ... is a very critical
weekend for us.” CJ WERNEKE
Head Coach
All of the Knights anticipatedhaving a better team perform-ance last week in the Bronx, andsophomore Steve Burkholderknows the team is capable ofdoing so.
“We just have to keep our con-fidence up,” Burkholder said.“We’re a good team, and we’redefinitely looking to redeem our-selves in Princeton.”
The field consists of severaltalented teams, including defend-ing national champion Columbia,which finished third in theMetropolitan Championships.
Sophomore Chris Banafatoand freshman Chris Defabio leadRutgers, finishing 12th and 15th
overall, respectively, at theMetropolitan Championships.
The Knights do not have asuperstar on their team, butMulqueen does not think that hasbeen a problem this season, despitethe disappointing showing at theMetropolitan Championships.
“You don’t need a star to havea really good team,” Mulqueensaid. “Our back really has toimprove for us to do better.”
Consistency is key to theKnights’ success, as many of theirraces have shown very differentresults than what seemed possi-ble from practices.
“We need to stick with whatwe do in practices,” Burkholder
said. “We look great in prac-tices and then it doesn’t showin our races.”
Mulqeen knows translatingsuccess from practice intomeets is dif ficult and is something he has put a greatdeal of emphasis on throughoutthe season.
“We do a great job runningtogether as a group during ourpractices,” Mulqueen said. “Welose that during our races, and weneed to work on that.”
The Knights need to stay togeth-er if they hope to finish toward thetop of the field in Princeton.
No. 11 Princeton will likely bedifficult to beat in its home set-
ting, and No. 5 Iona also races inthe meet.
“We were definitely not happywith how we ran in our last race,”Burkholder said. “We can’t wait toget out there and race again.”
The Princeton Invitational isthe last race before the Big EastChampionships, which is themost important race yet for theKnights. The improvement theKnights looked for from theBronx has to come quickly if theywant to be competitive in the dif-ficult field in Princeton.
“We just want to get better andsee better results,” Mulqueensaid. “We need to put it behind usand do better this time.”
BY JOSH BAKANASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR
Sophomore defender Thomas O’Rourke’sgoal Tuesday at No. 1 Maryland was notenough for the Rutgers men’s soccer teamto win in its 2-1 loss, but it might have beenthe Scarlet Knights’ most important goalthis season.
Despite the goal occurring in an out-of-conference loss, that play was vital inimproving Rutgers’ confidence as it exitsnon-league play.
“If anything, it should help us acceleratethings into the next game, and it shouldn’tslow us down or give us any confidenceissues whatsoever,” said head coach DanDonigan. “Their attitude, their demeanor hasbeen very good since the game.”
O’Rourke scored the goal under circum-stances that were improbable before theseason began.
The four-man backfield was set. Evenwhen senior defender Joe Setchell wentdown with a season-ending hip injury inearly September, freshman Drew Morgantook his place.
O’Rourke received an unlikely opportuni-ty when sophomore J.P. Correa, also sus-taining a season-ending hip injury, left a voidat striker.
“We really didn’t know who was going tofill that void,” Donigan said.
Donigan had to get creative, which meanteven giving defenders a chance to fill in forCorrea, who tied for the team lead with sixgoals in 2011.
O’Rourke played some midfield atLawrence (N.J.) High School, andDonigan had faith in him moving fartherup on the field.
“In practice one day, Coach [Donigan]had the idea of [me] maybe working onoffense and trying to create problems defen-sively,” O’Rourke said. “In practice, coachsaid, ‘Be ready for anything. You don’t know[what could happen], so take a shot.’”
Two games after Correa’s final appear-ance this season, O’Rourke started his firstmatch Sept. 22 against No. 10 Georgetown.
The Lawrenceville, N.J., native wasinvolved enough on offense to record a shot,but he has only taken five in seven games.Correa posted eight in four games.
DO OR DIE The Rutgers field hockey team loses ashot at the Big East Tournament if it does notbeat its final conference opponents. / PAGE 14
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LONG ROAD AHEAD The Rutgers men’s cross countryteam must defeat several strong opponents at thePrinceton Invitational, including No. 5 Iona. / PAGE 15
NO PLACE LIKE HOME In need of BigEast wins, the Rutgers volleball teamreturns to Piscataway. / PAGE 15
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Genius move by [head coach Dan] Donigan.”— Rutgers men’s soccer team goalie Kevin McMullen
on decision to play Thomas O’Rourke at forward
SHANNONWOELLER leads theRutgers women’s soccerteam with a .222 shootingpercentage even thoughthe senior defender hasonly two of the Knights’19 goals this season.
The Rutgers men’s soccer team lost its last gameof the nonconference season, 2-1, to Maryland.How did Rutgers fair in its last regular seasonnonconference game in previous years?
2009: win vs. NJIT, 2-12010: loss vs. NJIT,, 1-02011: loss vs. Maryland, 2-1 OT
RETURN OF RICE Rutgers head men’s basketball coach Mike Rice and the Knights take the court at the College Avenue Gymtonight at 9:30 p.m., highlighted by the emergence of junior forward Wally Judge, who redshirted last season. YEE ZHSIN BOON
MEN’S SOCCER
Defender’sgoal createsmomentum
BY BRADLY DERECHAILOCORRESPONDENT
Amanda DeVolk admits these next threegames are an exciting time for the Rutgerswomen’s soccer team.
But with enthusiasm comes pressure.“The energy has probably been at a level
that I haven’t seen in a few weeks, and there
Knights begin trio of vital matchups
SEE MATCHUPS ON PAGE 14
Freshman Amanda DeVolk is one of three forwards in the Knights’ consistent starting three up top this season, teaming up withjunior Jonelle Filigno and sophomore Cassie Inacio. NELSON MORALES, SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
is so much excitement,” the freshman for-ward said. “But this weekend means somuch, and coming off [last] weekend, every-one is excited and back in it again.”
Those three games stand between theScarlet Knights and the Big East Tournament,and Rutgers cannot afford to lose.
The Knights are in sixth place in the NationalDivision of the Big East, ahead of Cincinnati and
Seton Hall. Louisville sits fourth — ahead ofRutgers — and arrives to Piscataway today toface the Knights at Yurcak Field.
Head coach Glenn Crooks sees the ener-gy DeVolk speaks of, but as far as whatRutgers focused on in practice this week, theroutine has not changed.
