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Home News Uubune www.thnt.com PAGE A3 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 1,2006 New Jersey Report Four slain wall donation Prisiceta gets $iRfl fe Calif, alumnus was exceptional punter for Tigers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PRINCETON A California investor and 1979 Princeton University alumnus has com mitted $10 million to Princeton's football program, the largest donation ever given to the said. He was a defensive back and an All-Ivy punter at Princeton. Powers' brother, a 1978 alumnus, also attended Princeton and played football there with his brother. Powers currently works for Pacific Investment Management based in Newport Beach, where he is a managing director and senior member of the portfolio management and investment-strategy groups. and support the football program.

Powers also has pledged an additional $500,000 for two financial need-based scholarships, the university said. Powers Field will be dedicated next year at a Nov. 10 home game against Yale "I hope that this gift will inspire current and future Princeton athletes to strive for excellence, thus reinforcing the university's commitment to the student-athlete experience that imparts the critical values of leadership, teamwork, competition and character, including managing adversity and failure as well as success," Powers Tigers, the university will name Princeton Stadium's game field "Powers Field." Some of the money has already been used to replace grass with artificial turf at the stadium. The donation, announced Saturday, also will help renovate two practice fields, maintain all three fields school's athletics, the university said. In honor of the gift from Wil liam C.

Powers, a standout punter when he played for the Corzine 'demoted' by lottery Lawmakers want to confront rise in gang violence By GREGORY J. VOLPE GANNETT STATE BUREAU TRENTON Gov. Jon S. Corzine got an early Christmas present from the New Jersey Lottery a demotion to acting governor. By MICHAEL RISPOU GANNETT STATE BUREAU TRENTON As gang violence in the state grows, state lawmakers are seeking to pass laws helping stem the problem before it spreads further.

The Senate Law and Public Safety Committee heard testi at Shore-area motel EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP: Police have roped out the perimeter of a motel outside Atlantic City, with an area television station reporting that four dead bodies have been found out back. WPVI-TV in Philadelphia was reporting on its Web site Monday that the victims were found shot to death. A representative for the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office did not immediately return calls for further details. Cabin deaths likely accidental, says DA MEHOOPANY, Carbon-monoxide poisoning appears to have killed three men who were found dead over the weekend in an unfinished hunting cabin, authorities said yesterday. A relative of one of the victims discovered the bodies Saturday inside the cabin on Forkston Mountain, west of Scranton.

A gas-electric generator appeared to have been running in the garage of the cabin when the men were found, Wyoming County District Attorney George Skuma-nick Jr. said Monday. "At this point it looks to be accidental," Skumanick said. "It didn't have enough ventilation. All apparent signs are carbon-monoxide poisoning." An autopsy was scheduled for yesterday, Wyoming County Coroner Tom Ku-kuchka's office said.

Kukuchka told The Times-Tribune of Scranton that the victims were: David Grasch, 27, of Cape May, N.J.; Patrick Maltoriey 22, of Clayton, and Anthony DiMartino, 21, of Philadelphia. Addiction-services official accused TRENTON: A former assistant commissioner at the state Division of Addiction Services doled out $7.7 million in public funds to an organization with which she had connections, according to a state Inspector General's Report released yesterday. The report, by Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper, finds Carolann Kane-Cav-aiola, who was fired Friday, used her position to give grants to two groups with which she had a long-standing professional relationship: the Addiction Treatment Providers of New Jersey and the Members of the Passaic County Sheriffs Department and the Paterson police department gave a graphic, startling presentation on gang violence in the county. Pictures of gang related deaths and testimony from gang members drove home the reality of the situation. "It was unnerving.

It makes you realize what is really going on," said Sen. John Gir-genti, D-Passaic, chairman of the committee. Dalton Price, detective for the Paterson police gang unit, stressed the direness of the situation. "This is not something that is just on television. This is not a joke.

This is for real. We don't want to believe it, we wish it didn't exist, but it does exist," Price said. Gang violence has been prevalent in the state since the early 1980s, when West Coast gangs spread to New York and New Jersey. Currently, there are an estimated 31,000 gangs in the nation, claiming 850,000 members, including more than 17,000 in New Jersey as of 2003. A $2 scratch-off game, Holiday Lucky Times 10, that hit the stores Nov.

13 lists Jon S. Corzine as "Acting Governor" on a list of state and lottery officials. "I just bought a ticket, I looked at the back of it just to see what the prizes were and I happened to notice it said Jon Corzine, acting governor," said James Shea of Hazlet. "I said, "There's something wrong Dominick DeMarco, spokesman for the lottery, said the mistake was a vendor error that lottery officials, too busy making sure the fine print detailing rules and prize amounts were correct, didn't' catch until the more than 5 million tickets were in circulation. "We missed that," DeMarco said.

"We just flat-out missed that." The lottery will not attempt to correct the error. "They're out there, they're selling," DeMarco said. can say this, it's not going to happen again." The "acting" governor was not insulted by the mistake. Gregory J. Volpe: gvolpegannett.com mony yesterday for the third time this year from anti-gang and prevention groups on pending proposals, which include gang education seminars for school administrators, students and teachers and increasing penalties in gang-related crimes such as recruitment of minors and community gun possession.

Duane Dyson, chairman of the nonprofit Violence Prevention Institute, said reviews of gang violence programs from the last 10 years found they did not produce the results they were looking for and that the problem is spreading. "The state of New Jersey cannot afford to allow youth violence to run rampant," said Dyson. "This is not just an urban problem. This is a New Jersey problem." Although gang violence is recognized as a statewide issue, Passaic County, specifically the city of Paterson, was front and center at the The Associated Press HONORED IN STONE William T. Coleman one of the authors of the legal brief that persuaded the U.S.

Supreme Court in 1954 to outlaw segregation in public schools, pauses as he attends a ceremony yesterday in Trenton, naming the New Jersey Department of Education building in honor of Robert L. Carter, a fellow architect of the legal strategy in the Brown v. Board of Education case. Carter, 89, was ill and could not attend the ceremony. A former federal judge who grew up in Newark and East Orange, Carter, 89, now lives in New York City.

The average age range for gang members is between 12 and 24 years old, with members beginning as early as 7 years old. Ninety-five percent of those in gangs are high school dropouts. Associated Treatment Provid ers Management Services Network. The report claims ATP members, of which Kane-Cav aiola, 56, of Point Pleasant If I Beach, was one intermittently "It's hard for a normal kid to go to a new middle school, where everyone's already friends and the cliques are already set up. For these kids it's even harder." Reiss worked to bridge the gap between the two groups of students with a buddy system in which 25 general education students rotate in and out of the autism class to help with reading, handwriting and math.

The group has adjusted to its new surroundings, and, at this point, moving the students back to Conackamack would probably be detrimental, Kehoe said. But when the new autism class comes through King, graduating to Conackamack will allow for a smoother transition into middle school, he said. Schor currently houses both self-contained special-education classes offered by the district at the middle school level. The autistic class has four students and the mild cognitive class has 26. The district plans to hire a new autism teacher for the class at King next year while keeping Reiss with the current group, which has students ranging from ages 12 to 14.

It's the first autism class at Schor and was also the first one at King. Before the program was established at King, students moved from Eisenhower Primary School which has had an autism class for 12 years to programs outside of the district. Keeping students in-district saves money, Kehoe said, because the cost to send students out-of-district usually ranges from $37,980 (at Middlesex Regional Education Services Commission) to 41,900 (at Children's Center of Monmouth County) per pupil each year. The in-district classes cost $27,715 per pupil per year. AUTISM From Page Al daily schedule down to the minute, the lack of consistency would be fodder for what the autism teachers at Schor call "meltdowns." Moving the current group across town to Schor presented a different set of challenges: The autistic students had become part of the school community at King, and getting acclimated to a completely different peer group is especially hard for them.

"(Conackamack) is only 200 yards away from the school they were in we could have walked back and continued relationships," said Maureen Reiss, who's been teaching the group of students since 2002. from 1979 to 2002, parlayed campaign contributions for former Gov. James E. McGreevey and Kane-Cavaio- la's connections to the then-incoming governor to place Kane-Cavaiola in charge of distributing addiction grants, The matter has been forwarded to the state Division of Criminal Justice. MARK R.

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