The word rave does not usually bring thoughts of safety to one’s mind when associated with college students, but university’s new alert system is sure to change that.

SIU is now the thousandth customer for the Rave Mobile Safety Alert System. This new alert system will send emergency messages to students and faculty through multiple avenues to ensure the notifications are seen.

Ben Newman, director of the Department of Public Safety at SIU, said he is enthused about the switch.

“It offers something we didn’t have before,” said Newman. “We are hoping Rave will offer more reliable service to our campus community.”

The emergency text message alerts will now be tied in with the emailing system. Prior to the switch, the mass emails and texts were each sent from a completely separate system. The new system will allow the university to notify the campus population through social media and the university webpages, as well as email and text, simultaneously. Notifications due to emergency, administrative closures and weather warnings can be sent from anywhere in the world.

“I can bring up the Rave mobile safety website, log on with my information and send out an emergency alert no matter where I am,” Newman said. “It doesn’t require a static IP or that I sit at a specific computer, I can do it from anywhere.”

This provides a solution for the university to communicate with the users even if something were to happen to facilities on campus. The system has been tested by the university and declared significantly reliable.

Assistant Provost and Chief Information Officer David Crain said they created a list of test users from staff members and tried different alerts through the system to ensure they are working correctly. He said at times, the old system could take nearly 15 minutes to get messages out to users while the new system does it almost instantaneously.

“The system is proven,” Newman said. “Other universities have been using it for years and what we hope to do is keep our campus community informed of major incidents.”

Jerry Richards, director of Enterprise Systems, said Rave is a well known industry leader in emergency notification systems and has a track record of being very successful.

“The previous alert system had kinks and issues,” Richards said. “It was time to make the change to a better alternative.”

The final costs for Rave are still unknown. Crain said the expenses are significantly below the budget limit and the university may spend millions of dollars on technology at times, so this expense is considered extremely low.

“No matter what the initial cost is or the recurring fees are, it certainly gives you peace of mind knowing you can notify the campus community of an incident in a moment’s notice if need be,” Newman said.

Multiple departments on campus have been working together to get the system up and running. The DPS has worked with information technology groups and communications to launch the system. They all agree that only benefits can come from the switch.

“I don’t think there is any one thing that we can hang our hats on to do everything we need to keep campus safe,” Newman said. “I think it is part of a comprehensive approach and acts in concert with other components.”

Newman said the transfer to the new system has been quite an undertaking thus far. The university has had only three months to test, perfect and implement the system. Now, their job is to administer the news across campus so everyone will have their appropriate information updated before the upcoming semester.

Students are automatically enrolled into the system based off of their current information. To update or change information visit SalukiNet or contact SalukiTech.

“It is just a really good thing,” Richards said. “Potentially, a life can be saved with this system and that is all DPS is trying to do, just to be able to those communicate when there is a stressful event occurring on campus.”

Newman said he believes the benefits will unfold over time and this is the way to accomplish their goals of keeping the campus community informed of any major incidents.

For more information, visit dps.siu.edu, contact SalukiTech at 453-5155 or salukitech@siu.edu.

Storey Mayer can be reached at smayer@dailyegyptian.com or

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SIU safety is all the RaveSTOREY MAYER

Daily Egyptian

Extended Campus sprung for ice cream for the whole campus Wednesday. Treesong, SIU Alumni and Director of the Gaia House, shared a free treat with Grace Darmour-Paul, a graduate student from Davenport, Iowa, studying education. “I took 14 credit hours this summer,” Paul said. “I deserve a free ice cream.”

JAMIE EADER | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Summer chills

From farm to fork

Carol Brown, of Lebanon, buys some fresh organic vegetables from Nick Barger, a senior from Belleville studying horticulture. The vegetables come from the SIU Sustainable Farm, which sells 80 percent of its produce to the dining halls, mostly Trueblood and Lentz. Last season, they sold, among other things, 1,000 pounds of tomatoes, 2,000 pounds of potatoes and 2,000 Bell peppers to the dining halls. The other 20 percent is sold at a stand in front of the Agriculture building on Wednesdays from 12-4p.m., and the Carbondale Community Farmers Market at the Carbondale Community High School on Saturdays from 8 a.m.-12p.m. This will be the fourth year for the farms. The agriculture department works together with Logic, an RSO, to maintain the program, which is now called the Center for Sustainable Farming.

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WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday introduced legislation to streamline how colleges handle cases of sexual assault.

The Campus Safety and Accountability Act would increase penalties for colleges that break federal laws and, among other provisions, mandate that they establish confidential advocates on all campuses for students affected by sexual violence.

“We are done with the days of asking victims why they drank too much or wore the wrong thing or went to the wrong place or hung out with the wrong guy,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “This measure is one whose time has truly come.”

Reps. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Patrick Meehan, R-Pa., plan to introduce companion legislation in the House of Representatives, as Maloney did with the last bill to combat campus sexual assault that Congress passed in 2013. That measure, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act, will go into effect Oct. 1.

The legislation comes as stories of colleges mishandling these cases become more common and inconsistencies among their sexual assault data are illuminated. It’s a political response to a swell of student advocacy work, 71 federal investigations and a White House task force that unveiled guidelines on the issue earlier this year.

Congress will leave Friday for a five-week recess. The Senate bill’s eight sponsors — including Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla. — plan to bring the measure to the Senate floor in September.

The bill would enable the Department of Education to levy fines on colleges that break the related federal laws. Currently, the department has the authority to withhold a school’s federal funding as punishment, but it has never done so.

Under the measure, schools that violate Title IX, which bans gender discrimination in education activities and programs supported by federal funds, would be fined up to 1 percent of their budgets for each deviation from the federal law. Colleges that violate the Clery Act — the federal law that requires colleges to report crime statistics

— could be fined up to $150,000, a sharp increase from the current $35,000 cap.

Know Your IX, a student rights group, had filed a petition earlier this year that called on Congress to “give teeth” to the Department of Education’s enforcement of Title IX.

Advocates and victims attended Wednesday’s news conference announcing the Senate bill, including Annie Clark and Andrea Pino, co-founders of the group End Rape on Campus, and former students of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

“The institutional betrayal that these students face is sometimes worse than the assault itself,” Clark said.

Four women who’d been sexually assaulted at their colleges spoke. Among them was a woman identified only as Anna, the focus of a recent New York Times story that delved into how Hobart and William Smith Colleges had adjudicated the sexual violence she faced freshman year.

“With this bill, no longer will women like Anna feel that she has no choice but to share her story with the whole world just to get her school’s attention,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.

Bipartisan bill would tighten rules on campus sexual assaultSTEPHANIE HAVENMcClatchy Washington Bureau

Florida citizen wants civil union recognized — so she can get a divorce

MIAMI — It’s a Catch-22 for a lesbian who wants to get married to her new partner.

Heather Brassner’s spouse cheated on her four years ago and then disappeared, she said. Now, Brassner is legally stuck in a 2002 Vermont civil union because Florida is constitutionally banned from recognizing the relationship, and therefore won’t grant her a divorce.

A Broward Circuit Court judge may soon fix that by becoming the third in South Florida to declare Florida’s 2008 gay-marriage ban unconstitutional.

“A judge’s job is to protect the citizens. The way the law is written, they’re not allowed to do their job,” Brassner said.

“My hope is that I will be granted a divorce,” she said. “My assumption is that most likely the attorney general of Florida will appeal it. I’m willing to go to the next step. I’ll go all the way. I just want the same protections that everyone is born with. These are inalienable rights.”

Broward Circuit Judge Dale Cohen will rule anytime in Brassner’s case, according to Nancy Brodzki, her attorney.

“I have known Heather for a few years, through her (current) girlfriend, Jennifer. It was probably about two years ago when she first mentioned trying to get divorced,” Brodzki said. “She wondered if she could. ‘Can I get divorced?’ And the answer was, ‘No, you really can’t.’ “

Brassner and her first partner, Megan Lade, were united in a civil union on July 6, 2002, in Vermont. That was two years before the first gay and lesbian couples in the United States were allowed to marry in Massachusetts, and seven years before gay marriage became legal in Vermont.

Vermont will not end Brassner and Lade’s civil union unless both women sign papers that they agree to the dissolution. Brassner, 41, said that’s impossible because she has no idea where Lade is.

“In this case, despite diligent search, the Petitioner was unable to locate Megan Lade,” according to a divorce filing. “Even a private investigator hired to find her was unable to do so.”

Vermont, Massachusetts and 17 other states, plus

Washington, D.C., now permit same-sex marriages.The gay-marriage battle is being waged across the nation.

A federal judge last week ruled Colorado’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. And on Monday, a federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that Virginia’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, a decision that could topple similar prohibitions in the Carolinas and West Virginia.

On Monday, North Carolina’s attorney general announced his office would no longer fight lawsuits seeking to overturn the state’s ban, according to Freedom to Marry, a national advocacy group.

In 2008, about 62 percent of Florida voters supported a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and civil unions in the Sunshine State: “Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.”

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is continuing to fight two right-to-marry victories in July by same-sex couples in Monroe and Miami-Dade counties.

On July 17, Monroe Chief Circuit Judge Luis Garcia ruled Florida’s gay-marriage ban unconstitutional and that Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones of Key West could marry.

Eight days later, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Sarah Zabel ruled that six same-sex couples in South Florida also had the right to marry. Those decisions are valid only in the judges’ respective counties, and both rulings have been put on hold pending appeals by Bondi.

Wednesday afternoon, lawyers in Monroe and Miami-Dade counties asked that their cases be consolidated and appealed directly to the Florida Supreme Court. A spokeswoman for Bondi said the attorney general’s office had yet to respond.

In addition to the two right-to-marry cases, state and federal lawsuits have been filed by same-sex couples demanding that Florida recognize their out-of-state marriages.

Brodzki expects Cohen to become the first judge in Florida to recognize an out-of-state marriage or civil union.

“Judge Cohen stated that he was not prepared to grant the divorce without addressing the constitutionality of the same-sex marriage ban — and the same-sex marriage recognition ban,” Brodzki said.

STEVE ROTHAUSThe Miami Herald

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s call for a ceasefire to Israel’s assault in Gaza got him nowhere. Secretary of State John Kerry returned to the U.S. empty-handed after a try at a truce, amid a volley of ridicule from the Israelis.

The Obama administration is finding limits to its influence as it tries to walk a fine line between what it says is Israel’s right to defend itself and its alarm over the deaths of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including children.

The White House has said the administration is continuing to talk with Israelis, Palestinians and countries in the region and it sharply condemned the shelling of a United Nations’ school in Gaza on Wednesday, saying it underscores the need for an immediate ceasefire.

But the administration’s options in quelling the violence any time soon appear limited — by geopolitics in the region and at home, and by its track record of failing to achieve progress with peace talks, say Middle East experts.

“Privately I’m sure they’re saying to Israel, ‘You’ve achieved as much as you can tactically. Why not end this thing, unless you want to occupy Gaza,’” said Michele Dunne, a former Middle East specialist at the State Department who is now

a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “But the signal Israel is sending is that they’ve not yet achieved what they set out to do.”

Still, she notes, past episodes of Israeli retaliation for Hamas attacks have shown “at some point the human costs and the international criticism start escalating to a point that the Israelis have to recalculate.”

Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have long had a frosty relationship and the president’s leverage with the Israeli leader is “about zip,” said Arthur Hughes, a former ambassador to Yemen and a scholar at the Middle East Institute.

Yet even if they were close, “the conversation might be nicer,” but the result would likely be the same, he said.

Netanyahu is determined to try to cripple Hamas and is facing no domestic pressure to slow down his campaign to destroy its cache of missiles and underground network of tunnels, some of which have been dug toward Israel to carry out cross-border attacks. Indeed, polls in Israel find overwhelming support among Israeli Jews for the offensive that Israel calls Operation Protective Edge.

“And to a large extent that attitude will be played out in the strong supporters of Israel in this country,” Hughes said.

That includes both chambers of Congress. As lawmakers readied for an August vacation, the House

on Wednesday passed a bipartisan resolution that condemns Hamas for rocket attacks against Israel and for using civilians as “human shields by placing their missile batteries in densely populated areas and near schools, hospitals, and mosques.” The Senate passed a similar resolution on Tuesday.

Every nation has the right to defend itself, and Israel is no different,” said House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who is the incoming majority leader replacing Rep. Eric Cantor. He said calls for both sides to exercise restraint “have done nothing to stop Hamas’ wanton violence, ignore the extraordinary restraint exercised by Israel, and, worse, imply that Israel is just as much to blame as Hamas.”

The U.S. shares Israel’s goal of a weakened Hamas, which it has designated as a terrorist organization, said Elliott Abrams, a National Security Council officer under former President George W. Bush and a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“We want to weaken Hamas and strengthen the Palestinian Authority and it’s not at all clear that asking Israel to stop strengthens the authority,” he said.

But the U.S. is viewed as wanting to disengage from the region and Khaled Elgindy, a former adviser to Palestinian peace negotiators and a fellow at the Brookings Institution,

said the drift contributes to the U.S. lack of leverage.

“All of these actors in the region have very concrete views on the conflict and instead of having our own, we’ve just kind of gone along with this, that or the other,” Elgindy said. “There’s not a lot of engagement and now we’re scrambling to articulate a position out of this murkiness.”

White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz said the administration had made it “very clear that Israel needs to do more to live up to its own standards to limit the civilian casualties.”

But the U.S. for decades “has refrained from putting strong pressure on Israel to do what it doesn’t want to do,” said Philip Wilcox, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and former U.S. counsel general in Jerusalem.

“For the U.S. to take a lead would mean a more contentious relationship with the Israeli government,” Wilcox said. “It’s a tough dilemma for the administration and a product of decades of delay by the U.S. in confronting this issue and using its relationship with Israel more wisely.”

He said he believes Israel needs to counter a terrorist threat, but also wants to prevent a united Palestine.

“They’re trying to permanently govern another nation-in-waiting through the use of military force,” he said. “If we’re committed to Israel’s security and well being, we need to be honest with them.”

Israel and Gaza: U.S. leverage is limitedLESLEY CLARKMcClatchy Washington Bureau

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Paramedics’ next toolWhile Google Glass’ potential as a

consumer device remains to be seen, Lauren Rubinson-Morris is excited about its possibilities in her workplace.

Rubinson-Morris is president and chief executive officer of MedEx Ambulance Service, a Skokie -based company that provides transportation to hospitals and other health care sites throughout the Chicago area.

The company has acquired two pairs of Google Glass installed with software and connected to the Internet, allowing paramedics to transmit live video and audio from an ambulance to a doctor in an emergency room who will be able to watch the video stream on a tablet or desktop computer.

The additional eyes on a patient can provide paramedics with advice, diagnosis and treatment options. MedEx plans to launch a test with Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago this month, Rubinson-Morris said.

MedEx is one of several health care providers around the country experimenting with Glass to see whether it can improve collaboration and patient outcomes while reducing costs. At Rhode Island Hospital, for instance, ER doctors are using Glass to consult with off-site dermatologists for patients with burns or rashes.

Virtual medical exams where doctors in distant locations evaluate patients online are proliferating. But video consultations have traditionally connected patients in rural areas to specialists at urban medical centers. Google Glass offers the potential to expand video interactions into all corners of the health care industry because it is mobile.

At $1,500 a pair, Glass is less expensive than some videoconferencing equipment used by hospitals that can cost $10,000 to $40,000. Those systems are a significant investment in technology for doctors and hospitals, said Dr. Warren Wiechmann, associate dean

of instructional technologies at the University of California at Irvine School of Medicine.

“By hospital equipment standards, Google Glass is a steal,” Wiechmann said.

Dr. Paul Porter, assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brown University in Rhode Island who is leading a Glass study at Rhode Island Hospital, agreed.

“It’s a really low-cost way of entering the telemedicine world,” Porter said. “I think this is promising technology because it allows physicians to engage with a patient at eye level. There’s nothing more discouraging than seeing a physician looking at his computer typing while trying to talk to you.”

Porter said that although the video-streaming software on Glass has worked with few glitches, he hasn’t tested it in a fast-moving ambulance with sirens blaring. That’s the big challenge for MedEx. In an emergency, paramedics and physicians can’t afford blurry images or dropped wireless signals.

“We have to make sure the technology works,” said Dr. Eddie Markul, medical director for emergency medical services for the Chicago North EMS Region at Advocate Illinois Masonic. “We don’t want to have critical patients relying on technology that fails.”

Before Illinois Masonic can take part in the MedEx test, Glass has to be cleared for use by the hospital’s legal department. Any software that sends patient information to a doctor, hospital or other health care provider must comply with federal regulations that protect the privacy

of personal health data.Out of the box, Glass does not

comply with the federal privacy law, known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. But Pristine Inc., a startup based in Austin, Texas, has customized the device for the medical profession in a way that the company said meets data security and patient privacy standards.

Google integrated email, maps, search, social media and other apps into the Glass operating system. Pristine took them off. It developed an encrypted video platform for Glass and renamed the device Pristine EyeSight.

The company buys Glasses from Google and resells or leases them to hospitals, medical schools and other health care providers. Pristine co-founder Kyle Samani said the company has more than a dozen clients, including MedEx and Rhode Island Hospital.

“It’s very easy to think of us as a Glass company,” Samani said. “But our vision is to be a telemedicine company.”

California-Irvine’s Wiechmann led the effort to introduce Pristine EyeSight into the medical school. At UC Irvine, the medical school is 13 miles from the hospital. Surgeons, for example, have worn Glass to broadcast procedures to students in the classroom.

Wiechmann, also an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine, said he sees a lot of potential for Glass in medical emergencies, such as strokes and heart attacks. Paramedics typically use two-way radios to talk with nurses and doctors at hospitals.

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Chicago Tribune ‘‘I t’s a really low-cost way of entering the telemedicine world. I think this is promising technology because

it allows physicians to engage with a patient at eye level. There’s nothing more discouraging than seeing a physician looking at his computer typing while trying to talk to you.

— Dr. Paul Porterassistant professor of emergency medicine

at Brown University

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Top: Paramedic Operations Supervisor Irene Res, middle, tries out Google Glass on June 27, 2014, during the EMT training session at Medical Express Ambulance Service in Skokie. Bottom right: Critical Care Paramedic Operations Manager Jeff Collins shows how Google Glass transmits real-time video from the headset to a tablet. Bottom left: Paramedic Frank Higgins tests out Google Glass.

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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Today’s Birthday (07/31/14). Mercury enters your sign today, inspiring clever eloquence. Jupiter’s there too

(until August 2015), so gracefully enjoy the spotlight this year. Rally the troops. Home and family hold your focus through 12/23, when Saturn enters Sagittarius for 2.5 fun years. Practice your arts. Harvest home and career benefits this autumn. Opportunities bud next spring for shared resources and communications. Express your love.

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 9 — It’s getting fun.

The next three weeks are excellent for creative conversation, with Mercury in Leo. Channel your work into wealth. It’s easier to explain your plans, and enroll participants. Collaborate today and tomorrow.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is a 9 — There’s a heavy

workload for the next two days. Do it for home and family for about three weeks (with Mercury in Leo). Share new flavors as you work together on a household project.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Today is an 8 — Your powers of communication seem supercharged. Write, record and speak out loud. Express a new perspective. With Mercury in Leo for three weeks, study and research. Use imagination plus elbow grease. Get public.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)Today is a 9 — Family comes

first today and tomorrow. For the next three weeks, basic technique gets profitable. Advertise. Market your wares and they sell like hotcakes. Unexpected expenses could arise. Bring home the bacon.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 9 — Study

communications strategy today and tomorrow. With Mercury in Leo for three weeks, whistle your own tune. Express, record and soak up information. Make an amazing discovery and announce it to the world.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is a 9 — Bring in the

money today and tomorrow. Forgive, even if you don’t forget, so you can move on. What if your only job was to be happy? Find the humor in ordinary moments.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is an 8 — Assertiveness

works well now. For the next three weeks with Mercury in Leo, talk it over with your team. Set objectives, and determine who does what. Work from home for extra points.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is a 9 — Fix old problems

today and tomorrow, for improved functionality. Provide motivation to your crew. Communication clears up some lingering business, allowing your business to advance. Keep confidences. Friends provide support.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is a 9 — An adventure with

friends sounds extra appealing over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Leo. Explore with someone you admire. It’s

easier to advance, and more fun with someone interesting.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is an 8 — Advance your

plan over the next two days. For three weeks with Mercury in Leo, it’s easier to inventory your family’s resources. Record details of financial transactions. Do what you promised.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is an 8 — Others ask your

advice. Help them from backstage. Communicate, collaborate and negotiate with partners over the next three weeks with Mercury in Leo. Talk together, and solutions spark like popcorn. Follow a good idea.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 9 — Financial planning

is more fun today and tomorrow. Keep building savings. Being well organized helps. Communication balances labor and health over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Leo. Keep measures and statistics.

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CHICAGO — After he arrived at a charity golf tournament last month near York, Pa., Maryland coach Randy Edsall was asked about a statement from James Franklin in which Penn State’s rookie head coach talked of how a 6-hour radius from Happy Valley would be considered in-state for recruiting.

It just so happens that the home of the Terrapins, College Park, Md., is within that radius, but Edsall appeared to be in no mood for a geography lesson.

“We’re not going to boast and brag,” Edsall said in his initial reaction. He ended by saying, “Talk is cheap.”

Franklin struck a nerve with both Maryland and Rutgers, the Nittany Lions’ newest rivals in the Big Ten starting this season, when he spoke of recruiting. He later clarifi ed his remarks that any area within six hours of his campus would receive the same approach, resources and manpower in recruiting.

Maybe the philosophy is working. Included in Franklin’s top-five ranked recruiting class for 2015 thus far are six players from New Jersey, three from Maryland and one from the Virginia side of D.C.

Still, the Nittany Lions’ coach doesn’t want any malicious fallout from recruiting or anything else that would detract from the renewed rivalries with the Scarlet Knights or the Terrapins.

“Some fans and media, they want that — a nasty, toxic relationship,” Franklin said

Tuesday at Big Ten Football Media Days. “I don’t think it needs to be that way.

“I think there will be a rivalry because you’re going to have fan bases that cross over and see each other every single day and are talking and wearing gear from their schools. So those things are going to happen. But I think it can be a really cool positive for us.”

Rutgers coach Kyle Flood, like Edsall, said it’s a matter of sticking with what he does in recruiting and that the process doesn’t change now that he’s in a new conference with Penn State.

“We have a recruiting footprint,” Flood said. “They have a recruiting footprint. At the end of the day, they can take 25 and

we can take 25. There’s a lot more really talented football players in that footprint than that.

“So I think the battle is ultimately going to be: Who are the right players for his program, who are the right players for our program? Certainly there are some that we both want, it’s going to happen. But that’s OK, we welcome that.”

Edsall said the fact that fans follow recruiting will contribute to the rivalry’s growth.

“I think it will because we’re bordering states,” he said. “You’re going to go head to head recruiting guys so you’re going to have that factor to deal with, plus you’re going to have the factor of what takes place on the fi eld.”

Asked about Franklin’s earlier remarks, Edsall said, “I’m just a firm believer in that, I’m not going to say a whole lot. I’ve always been brought up and taught that your actions will speak louder than your words.”

Edsall said he just met Franklin for the first time here this week. Flood has a relationship with the Penn State coach and appreciated the fact that while Franklin was at Vanderbilt, “he was the first sitting head coach who congratulated me when I got the (Rutgers) job.”

For Franklin’s part, he’d like to get along with everyone.

“I want to be able to be friends with these guys,” he said. “I’m going to end up competing with these guys on Saturdays and it’s going to be heated on game day. But it doesn’t need to be like that the other 365 days of the year.”

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Northwestern’s head coach Pat Fitzgerald sticking to commitment policy

Big Ten rivalry for area recruits on the rise

Pat Fitzgerald is not about to alter his policy that might have led to the decommitments of two four-star players.

Scout.com first reported that running back Andrew Dowell and defensive back David Dowell, the twins from Ohio who pledged to Northwestern in April, changed their minds and could be headed to Vanderbilt.

Northwestern officials were aware for weeks that the two were wavering and unsure, but Fitzgerald apparently made it clear that if they visited other schools, their scholarship offers would be pulled.

Speaking in general terms because he cannot make comments about recruits, Fitzgerald said Tuesday: “If we make a commitment, we’re engaged. If you want to date somebody else, we’re no longer engaged and there is no more getting married. Like it or

not, that is how we will do business.”

David Dowell, who informed the Tribune in April that he committed in part because the Northwestern football program “felt like a genuine family,” did not reply to a text message that was seeking a comment from him.

After losing the talented pair, Northwestern’s recruiting class of 16 players dropped from 20th to 29th in the 247sports.com composite rankings.

Fitzgerald said he makes his policy “crystal clear” to parents, coaches and family members: “If you want to be a Wildcat, I only want you if you’re 100 percent sure. I don’t just tell it to the kids on a ‘DM’ (direct message) on Twitter. I look at them eye to eye. ... I don’t want to coach guys who don’t want to be at Northwestern. Our staff and, most importantly, our players want guys who want to be part of our culture.”

JOE JULIANO

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Michael Strahan keeps strong bond alive with New York Giants

Michael Strahan hasn’t played a down for the Giants in six years, has only three former teammates remaining on the roster, and only one fellow defensive player with whom he ever took the field is still with the team. Yet his aura hovers over the locker room to this day as if he were still the captain, still the leader.

“Only because of when he comes over,” Tom Coughlin said yesterday of the regular visitor to the Giants who will be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame this weekend. “He struck up a relationship with Damontre. He was always here for Tuck and all the guys in that room. Last year in the fall, we had him over and he sat in with the defensive coaches, sat in there with the players. We haven’t been able to get him over here yet this year, but I’m sure we will. I’m sure we will.”

That Coughlin looks forward to Strahan’s visits is an indication of how their relationship has evolved. Strahan was the lead

objector to many of Coughlin’s rules when he first became coach of the Giants in 2004. Four seasons later, they won a Super Bowl. Coughlin said making their peace with each other was a key to that success.

“Yeah, we didn’t necessarily see eye-to-eye right away, but thank goodness we won Michael over,” Coughlin said. “We spent some time together and went through some times that were good and bad ... Nobody was cheering harder in that last drive [of Super Bowl XLII] than Michael Strahan.”

Strahan is the first player to enter the Hall of Fame who had Coughlin as a head coach in the NFL. “It’s a wonderful feeling shared by our whole staff,” Coughlin said.

Strahan has gone on to

find success off the field as an entertainment personality, but he remains close with Giants players. Mathias Kiwanuka, his last remaining Giants defensive teammate, spoke last week about trying to maintain Strahan’s legacy. Jason Pierre-Paul has sought mentorship from Strahan and exchanges calls with him. Even the lesser-known defensive linemen have struck up relationships and see Strahan as a role model.

“He sets a great example, let’s face it,” Coughlin said. “The way he practiced, studied, worked at it. Very opinionated, no question about it. Very loquacious, one of those personalities that had a lot of fun but could get serious and could ask serious questions. You have to respect that. Always.”

‘‘N obody was cheering harder in that last drive [of Super Bowl XLII] than

Michael Strahan.

— Tom Coughlin Head coach of the New York Giants

TOM ROCK

Newsday TEDDY GREENSTEIN

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