Volume 38, Number 21
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The Rutgers ultimate frisbee team will be playing against New Brunswick Public High School on Thursday and Boy Scout troop #45 this Saturday.
Campus file sharing program goes legit P l a n s t o o ffer affordable “Pay-to-Download” subscriptio n s e r v i c e i n s t e a d BY CAL EN STAFF WRITER
While many still remember when the controversial decision undertaken by Resnet to block access to the “Ruxan” DC hub which is scheduled for April 21, 2008, the moderation staff of Ruxan has been markedly silent on the subject. This has changed, however, due to the recent decision of Ruxan management, in partnership with the RIAA, to shift the service to a legal “Payto-Download” service, a model that is most reminiscent of Apple’s iTunes service. Because of the mounting concerns of illegal file-sharing,
and the heavy bandwidth usage involved, the University’s Resnet service recently decided to block all access to the Ruxan DC hub, effective April 21. Many university students were worried and anxious for the future of their beloved file-sharing network. “I guess it was supposed to be kept on the down-low,” says third-year student Richard Thorndike, “but Resnet found out anyway, and now I got to find a new place to get movies and television shows.” While it may seem a bit clichéd, college students are known for not being very affluent, and Rutgers is no exception. Because of their lack of money, stu-
dents typically would download hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of movies, video games, music, and television shows from the DC network as opposed to purchasing them. “We kept this in mind as we designed the new service,” said Alvin Ng, who is also known as “RUScrewed” the Ruxan moderator, “the service will be affordable, and students will merely pay per byte of downloaded file. However, they will receive a stipend per byte they upload.” Ng went further to describe the service. Any company with copyright holdings on the data being transferred will be
SEE DC++ ON PAGE 5
DC++ user littlenaughtybagels has just been kicked because: Desiree
More Chinese imports found to contain lead Lead found to contain toxic levels of lead
INDEX UNIVERSITY According to reports grammar of Rutgerses Univercity students gets Worserer.
METRO City of New Brunswick to pass ordinance banning the sale of alcohol. UNIVERSITY...............3 METRO.....................5 OPINIONS..................8 DIVERSIONS..............10 PERSONALS............12 SPORTS...........B A C K
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A few months ago, it seemed like anything that came out of China was tainted with deadly lead. Children’s toys, cleaning supplies, pet food, nothing was safe. Luckily the Chinese figured out what was
going on and stopped it. Publicly executing a government official seemed to be the perfect way to give retribution to the world, and make China a perfect place to hold the Olympics. Today, scientists discovered that lead they ordered
from an industrial chemical supplier contained toxic levels of lead. “It really could have hurt someone.” Said Joe Schmoe, public representative of Killer Chemicals Inc., a manufacturer of chemicals used by serial killers to gag
their victims. “If any lead got into the lead we were synthesizing, victims could’ve died before they would be killed. And we have a reputation to our clients to make safe deadly chemicals. One of our clients, Hannibal SEE LEAD ON PAGE 17
Murray, others to be demolished in 2012
Lack of interest in writing coupled with College Ave. greening project to blame BY MOJO MORRISON CORRESPONDENT
Last year, Rutgers University held a contest open to students to create an idea for helping College Avenue go green. The winning submission for the contest involves the destruction of many beloved buildings on Voorhees Mall. Murray Hall, Milledoler Hall, and Van Dyke Hall will all be demolished for the greening project. The Plan involves expanding the Raritan river to overflow all the way up to College avenue. This would give easy access for boating to occur, allowing students to row to Douglass instead of taking
gas-powered buses. The problem of water not flowing upward would be solved by gas powered pumps filling the newly lake-ified Voorhees Mall. Additionally, underwater marine biology classes would become available in Scott Hall. Unfortunately, due to budget cuts related to the demolition of Murray Hall, these classes will be cut before they even begin. All of this will take place in 2012, by then, better technology is expected to be developed which will aid in the creation of the lake. Kind of like the gravity gun from Half Life, that would be totally sweeeeet!
If plans go as planned, Murray will get pwned by the upcoming College Avenue Greening Project