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Although he is just three months removed from high school, true freshman Tom Savage has impressed teammates with his poise, confidence and awareness as the Knights’ starting quarterback.

University trims the fat to bring home the bacon Economic recession leads departments to make changes, cuts to save funds BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

for Academic Af fairs Philip J. Furmanski. “[These programs] were really fragmented before.” Speakers at the event said the center is a valuable resource to the University community. “Let this new CAPS building stand proudly for the importance of the

The recession has caused the University to search for ways to save money without sacrificing quality. A report released in the spring details the actions the University has taken to save across the board. “Since every budget has been affected by the budget cuts and the constraints of the budget … every unit is looking for ways to save money,” said Vice President of University Budgeting Nancy Winterbauer. She said the report, “Cost and Efficiency Savings Update — Spring 2009,” shows cuts are an ongoing process and every unit is doing its part. Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs Philip J. Furmanski said despite the need to cut costs, the University offered a record-high amount of courses this year. Last fall, the whole University offered 6,289 courses, with 4,545 at the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses, he said. This fall, the whole University offered 6,509 courses, with 4,658 at the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses. “It’s basically a combination of putting more resources in our education. We asked the faculty to see if there were more courses that could be offered that could accommodate the needs and the interests of students,” Furmanski said. “And then whatever money we saved, whether it be energy or

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University officials speak to community members at yesterday’s grand opening of the Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program & Psychiatric Services building. Services were previously offered at various locations but will now be available in one building.

Center offers cohesive counseling services BY DEIRDRE S. HOPTON CORRESPONDENT

The doors are officially open at the new Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program & Psychiatric Services building on Senior Street after yesterday’s grand opening ceremony. The new center, located off the College Avenue campus, will accom-

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modate a wide range of mental health services previously housed in a variety of locations throughout the New Brunswick and Piscataway campuses. “The new counseling center … allows us for the first time to offer comprehensive cohesive programs for students who are having emotional difficulties [and] academic difficulties,” said Executive Vice President

Average GPA increases to 3.013 in spring 2009 BY JOHN S. CLYDE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

UNIVERSITY Although added to the REXL route last year, the Quad stop has been removed, much to the dismay of many students.

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The percentage of A grades assigned by faculty members is at the highest level on record, but increases are beginning to level out.

Thirty-one percent of grades assigned by faculty members throughout the University’s three regional campuses were A’s in the spring 2008 semester, according to a report from the Office of the Registrar. This is about a 6 percent increase from the spring 2000 semester, when 25 percent of grades were A’s.

“From 2000 until last semester, the proportion of A’s has gone up and the average [grade point average] has gone up, but it’s really leveled off,” said Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

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President to address goals, map future BY CAGRI OZUTURK ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Despite the faltering economy, the University was able to fulfill 38 of 40 key strategic goals University President Richard L. McCormick emphasized in his annual address last fall. At his Sept. 25 annual address, McCormick plans to accentuate the University’s accomplishments and outlines for the year ahead. “It has been on everybody’s mind that it has been a challenging year for Rutgers and ever y institution around,” McCormick said. “I usually save the resources and budget stuff until the end, but I’m going to talk right at the outset on some of the impacts that the economic recession has had on Rutgers.” McCormick said he will chart a future that involves a great deal of responsibili-

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University President Richard L. McCormick speaks at last fall’s Annual Address, where he highlights several goals accomplished this year. McCormick’s address to the University community is scheduled for Sept. 25 at 1:10 p.m. on the College Avenue campus.

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Livingston Quads to no longer be serviced by REXL BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

Students returned to Livingston campus this fall to find the Quads stop requested by students erased from the REXL bus route. Livingston Campus Council member Yousef Saleh said he and fellow members were upset to find the stop nonexistent after their work to implement the stop. “I understand that it has to be hard to change a stop because then ever yone else wants to change too,” said Saleh, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “But there’s so much support for the REXL Quad stop.” Throughout fall 2008 and winter 2009, the council worked to implement the additional stop. In April 2009, the REXL’s doors swung open onto the Quads stop due to decisions made by the Department of Transportation and resolutions the council, the SEBS/Cook Council and Rutgers University Student Assembly passed. The REXL stopped at the Quads for the rest of the semester, though Department of Transportation Ser vices Director Jack Molenaar said the stop was not set in stone. The bus no longer passes the Quads, which is one of the reasons it does not stop there, Molenaar said. “We stopped there last semester only because we were [passing the stop] because we couldn’t turn the bus around in the Livingston bus loop,” he said. “It’s not something

that we wanted to continue doing, so now that we can turn around again we’re not stopping there.” School of Arts and Sciences junior Daniel Esposito, a former council member, co-authored the first resolution requesting a Quads stop with Nicholas Martucchi, who is now an alumnus, in the fall of 2008. Esposito said he never heard any complaints regarding the stop last semester. “We tried it out and students were happy,” Esposito said. “They were not complaining that it was a slow ser vice.” He said students he talked to were accustomed to a REXL route that went around the entire campus. “When it went around the Quads last year, there was no noticeable difference in speed,” Esposito said. The Quads stop adds time to the bus route and adds more students to an already full bus, Molenaar said. The REXL is an express bus that stops at academic stops. “The highest priority for my department is to make sure that the people who have classes on Busch or Livingston can make their next class on Cook/Douglass, which is in 55 minutes,” Molenaar said. “Anything that interferes with that is not a good thing.” He said the primary mission of the REXL is to get people to classes. Esposito said the Quads stop could be seen as an academic stop due to its proximity to portions of Lucy Stone Hall.

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Waiting for the bus? Kill some time with the Rutgers University Programming Association. RUPA will be holding a Street Team Meeting beginning at 3 p.m. outside the Cook Campus Center. Find out what’s going on around campus and win free giveaways! The Rutgers University Programming Association will be holding an Outdoor Movie Knight featuring “Home,” a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet. This movie is co-sponsored by Douglass Residential College and the SEBS/Cook Council as part of Cook/Douglass Community Day. It will be shown from 8 to 10:30 p.m. at Passion Puddle on Cook campus. Please join the University’s Center for Race and Ethnicity roundtable discussion titled “Ethnicity and the Politics of Language Across the Globe” at 12 p.m. at 191 College Ave., first floor, on the College Avenue campus. Faculty members from a variety of disciplines will speak on how questions of identity relate to both language and politics. Please RSVP to the Center for Race and Ethnicity at raceethnicity@sas.rutgers.edu.

New Jersey Public Interest Research Group Student Chapters is kicking of f their campaigns of ser vice and political activism this week at the NJPIRG Kickof f Event at 8 p.m. in the Douglass Campus Center, Trayes Hall B. All students are invited to attend to find out how to get involved. Game Night is to help incoming first-year honor students meet their mentors and make sure the transition from high school to college is going smoothly. It is hosted by the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program and will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Graduate Student Lounge on the College Avenue campus.

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“The distance from Lucy Stone to the Quads is actually shorter than from Lucy Stone to the student center, especially the way most students walk, [which is] through the mall,” he said. Molenaar said the student center stop is seen as an academic stop for Lucy Stone Hall. “Lucy Stone is the only academic building that is a little bit further in. The biggest hall is really Beck,” he said. “The only reason we even go to the student center is because of Lucy Stone, other wise I would love for it to be just one stop.” Rutgers College senior Tyler Stillman said he used the Quads stop last semester and could have used it this semester to get from a class at Lucy Stone Hall to a class on Cook/Douglass. “The Quads stop is right there. It’s a better walk. It’s pretty much the last stop too, which saves some time,” he said. School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Kevin Ziemba, a Quad Two resident, said a REXL quads stop would assist students who had class in Lucy Stone Hall get to classes on Cook/Douglass campus. School of Arts and Sciences junior Alisa Schink said she has to get from a class in Lucy Stone Hall to a class on Douglass. A Quads stop would not make a difference. “The student center is right there. It’s not that big of a deal,” Schink said. Molenaar said the overwhelming majority of the students accessing the REXL at the

Quads stop in the spring were residents, not students from Lucy Stone or Tillet Hall. Residents of the Quads can plan ahead when they know they will be taking the REXL, he said. “They have more time to get to that next class because they’re not sitting in a classroom ... They do have the time needed to walk to the student center, take two buses to get to Cook/Douglass or to get there early and study in a lounge over there,” Molenaar said. “I’m doing this because I’m tr ying to help students that really don’t have a choice.” Esposito said the resolution for a Quads stop addressed inequality and unfairness along the bus route. “Commuters get a little stop with the REXL right before the student center,” Esposito said. “Why are they more important than the 1,500 kids in the Quads who do not get a stop?” Molenaar said the commuter stop will be eliminated when the Beck Hall stop is moved opposite the Louis Brown Athletic Center. The REXL stops one more time on Cook/Douglass campus than it does on Livingston campus, Esposito said. Molenaar said the handling of the REXL route is no different from that of other campuses. “If you look at where the REXB goes, it only hits academic stops; no one that lives in Nicholas [Hall] has been asking to have the bus brought all the way around the Busch campus,” he said. “To be fair to all of

Rutgers, what I’m doing at Livingston is consistent to what I’m doing on all the campuses.” Many Cook campus students must travel a further distance than Quad residents to reach stops, he said. Esposito said the stop could be implemented for little to no cost. “Cook/Douglass agrees, the Livingston people agree and the student body agrees that the stop should be there,” Esposito said. Molenaar said cost isn’t the issue. “Reliability and ability for students to make their classes on time who do not have the time to wait for a next bus [is the issue],” he said. Council President Winiris De Moya said the council will address the concern this semester if it appears to be of major importance. “Jack Molenaar is scheduled to visit one of our meetings in October. I’m sure that we will discuss this then,” said De Moya, a Rutgers College senior. Molenaar said the Department of Transportation is open to suggestions. “When we get multiple things that we see we then work on those issues,” he said. “We try to tweak it.” School of Environmental and Biological Sciences first-year student Kevin Hyun, a Quad Two resident, said he would like to see a REXL Quads stop implemented. “All my classes are on Cook and it’s a pain in the butt to walk over there every morning, everyday,” Hyun said.

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GPA: Enrolled students have higher class rank, scores continued from front Philip J. Furmanski. “A lot of that increase occurred between about 2000 and about 2005, and while there’s been some increase from 2005 to 2009, it’s gotten a little bit better.” In the spring 2009 semester, the University’s average GPA was 3.013. The average was 2.859 in the spring 2002 semester, said Barry Qualls, vice president for undergraduate education. The percent increase in the number of students getting A’s and the increase in students’ GPA are not horrifying things, Qualls said. “I don’t regard this to be significant grade inflation, to be honest,” Qualls said. “Over the years, Rutgers has continued to get more high achieving students who simply work harder.” In the Rutgers - New Brunswick’s School of Arts and Sciences, the number of A’s assigned increased from 22 to 28 percent during the same period. The School of Environmental and Biological Sciences also saw a 6 percent increase in the number of A’s from 30 to 36 percent. The average GPA in New Brunswick in the spring 2009 semester was 3.012, Qualls said. A copy of the report is posted in a new database section of dailytargum.com. “[The University makes] a great deal of effort to improve the teaching, the educational quality, the introduction of technology [and] those sor ts of

things,” Furmanski said. “Where there’s legitimate reason why grades are going up because according to some objective standard the students are actually doing better, that we have no problem with.” Other University officials said the increases in grades assigned to students are partially the result of improved enrollment standards, new technologies, hard working students, a competitive job market and an increased quality in the educational opportunities offered. “The academic credentials of the students that we’re admitting is going up, and so partly this is also the result of the fact that students who are doing better in class come into the University,” Furmanski said. The University has seen an increase in the Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of students enrolling at the University and an increase in students’ class rank, said Courtney McAnuff, vice president for enrollment management. “One good indication, [although] a small [percentage of undergraduates,] to have a 100 percent increase in Presidential Scholars in three years says a lot about really talented students wanting to attend [the University],” he said. The math and verbal SAT score average of the Presidential Scholars is more than 1500, McAnuff said. “I also think that the pressure from outside about jobs, law school, the competition for law and graduate schools [plays a role],” Qualls said.

U NIVERSITY He stressed that A’s represented top-quality work. “I think an A means that this is really top-flat work on its merit not just compared to other people in the class,” Qualls said. An A represents the best kind of paper and exams, he said. A C grade demonstrates adequate, but not special, comprehension of a subject. “I also think that a … C can also reflect people who just do enough to get by,” Qualls said.

“Over the years Rutgers has continued to get more high achieving students who simply work harder.” BARRY QUALLS Vice President for Undergraduate Education

Qualls said D’s and F’s represent work done by students who don’t have the time or don’t bother to do the work. “B’s are harder sometimes to define,” he said. “You know what’s not an A.” Professors try to develop concrete standards to differentiate A’s and B’s, he said. Students have mixed reactions to the changes in grading trends. “I think there’s some degree of grade inflation,” said David Reiss, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “You still have to work fairly

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M hard to get an A here so I don’t think it’s really hurting anyone.” Grades would have to increase by a more significant amount for it to cause problems for students, Reiss said. Furmanski said there should not be a wholesale shift in grading standards. While he said he does see a “tiny bit” of evidence of this, it has slowed considerably. Qualls said he would not be surprised if there was grade inflation in the 1960s and early 1970s because of the culture of the decade but stressed the grades at the University today reflect the hard work of students. Qualls does not expect significant increases in the future. “I think it’s leveled off. I think it may go down a percentage point or two, but I think it’s leveled off,” he said. “Obviously there’s an upward trend here, that’s clear, but I really do feel that students work damn hard under a lot of pressure.” Both Qualls and Furmanski said they hope that the recent transformation of undergraduate education will play a role in improving the quality of the opportunities available to students and quality of their education. They said three years was too soon to have concrete data. Improvements in technology could play a role in improving students’ education. School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Dan Nguyen said he does not agree with TV stereotypes that depict college students as not wanting to do well in school. “I think that technology has improved a lot so we can [get information easier],” Nguyen said.

The Internet has also changed the way in which students get their information. “I don’t even really have to buy books anymore because you can download solutions manuals [from the Internet],” said Kermen Deol, a School of Engineering senior. The increase in the quality of grades assigned at the University is similar to increases nationwide. GPAs have increased by roughly 0.1 to 0.2 percent per decade, according to gradeinflation.com, a site that tracks grading trends. “I think that universities are lowering standards because I feel that a lot of people who are under-qualified are being admitted into Rutgers and schools that should be quite good schools,” School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Kieu-nhi Le said. The improvement in grades students are getting makes students happy and worried. “Maybe the enrollment standards have changed … you’d like to think that maybe the school is getting better,” Deol said. “You definitely hope that it’s not that the school is lowering its standards because that doesn’t look good on our part.” If the University gets a reputation of inflating grades, it might be harder for students to get jobs, Deol said. Others said it is beneficial to students. “Even if the University’s standards are lowering and they want to reward their students, I think that is an important thing,” said Dan Weingard, a School of Arts and Sciences junior. “Even if it is bumping that B+ to an A or the fact that we don’t have minuses, sure it may not be fair, but if it helps me I’m happy about it.”

SERVICES: Completion of center on time, within budget continued from front work required to maximize potential …We all know that [in] the University life today that students face both obstacle and oppor tunity,” said CAPS Director Jill Richards. “May this home at 17 Senior St. symbolize the importance of all the personal tending that is necessar y for students to develop a wellintentioned, balanced life.” Executive Director of University Health Ser vices Melodee Lasky said the need for a building that houses all available CAPS ser vices was first realized in the summer of 2008. “I couldn’t help but notice the obser vation that this project has come in both on time and on budget. For your pains, next time [Lasky and Richards will] be the ones to expand our football stadium,” said University President Richard L. McCormick, earning many chuckles from the audience. The $5 million budget allotted to this project came from a combination of Student Affairs and Student Health Ser vices, Lasky said. Vice President of Student Affairs Gregor y S. Blimling said the new facility is well worth the investment. “We finally have one central location to bring together our clinical psychiatrists, our psychologists, and our drug and alcohol counselors. This will

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University officials cut the ribbon yesterday at the Counseling, Alcohol and Other Drug Assistance Program and Psychiatric Services building opening.

allow for a lot of team coordination, and we will be able to work collaboratively to help individual students,” he said. “It will make our work with students easier, and it will be more advantageous for our students.” Blimling said all of those ser vices available through CAPS are provided at no charge to University students. Laurane McGlynn, a postdoctorate fellow at the University, recently signed on for a second year working as a CAPS intern. McGlynn and the rest of the CAPS staff have been working in

the new building since the fall semester began. She said her previous of fice on Lafayette Street had charm, but the collaboration possible within the new building is vastly preferable. “I do individual counseling, I do initial consultations, I do group therapy … It’s beautiful here,” McGlynn said. “My office is [on the second floor] and I’ll tell you — it’s quiet, it’s comfortable, there’s a lot of light, there’s a lot of privacy. It’s very comfortable to sit with students when they come; a lot of students have commented when they came in that it’s a beautiful place.”

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New restrictions open door for heart research BY MARGARET YU

When the change took place, the amount of hospitals licensed to perform the proceTwo professors are taking dure doubled and the racial gap charge of a study investigating disappeared among blacks and racial disparities among people whites, which was not testing for hear t disease, obser ved by any other neighthanks to hospital regulator y boring state, according to reforms passed by the New the study. Jersey Depar tment of Health “We looked at a data for and Senior Ser vices. coronar y angiographies Professor Joel C. Cantor and between whites and blacks Associate Professor Derek across different states,” Delia Delia revealed the racial dispar- said. “We made epidemiological ity has closed among adjustments for sex, gender those seeking a diagnostic and age in order to compare coronar y angiography. individuals.” The study, “Reducing Racial They generated trend statisDisparities In Coronar y tics for the states they Angiography,” ran for four obser ved and marked the years beginning in early 2004 changes seen in New Jersey and was funded by the federal before and after the reforms, government through the he said. Other states did not Agency for Healthcare have these reforms and ser ved Research and Quality, a com- as control in groups. petitive research program Cantor said the change was about accessing health care, not attributed to new hospitals organization and deliver y of offering the procedure but to health ser vices, Cantor said. previous hospitals that had origi“Only about 26 hospitals in nally preformed the procedure. New Jersey were permitted to “It was ver y interesting to per form the prosee that the cedure, which reforms did not equates to about work out exactly “It was very 25 percent of all as intended,” he hospitals,” interesting to see said. he said. After the that the reforms did reforms In the past, were blacks were 25 not work out exactly enacted, one of percent less likely the r ules after as intended.” to receive a diagthe change nostic coronar y required hospiJOEL C. CANTOR a n g i o g r a p h y, tals to outreach Professor Cantor said. and provide betA diagnostic ter access to the coronar y angioguninsured, raphy is a procedure used Cantor said. But hospitals that when a patient is experiencing were originally performing the heart system problems such as procedure before the reform chest pains and shortness of offered ser vices to the uninbreath, he said. A cardiologist sured included more blacks. will inject a dye and take picIncreases in ser vice to black tures of blood vessels to reveal patients following reform were blockages or any other prob- concentrated in hospitals lems by using licensed before reform, while a highly specialized the newly licensed facilities x-ray machine. contributed relatively little to The procedure is only taken reducing disparities, according if a person is experiencing to the study. symptoms, Cantor said. But not “We think newly licensed all hospitals of fer places took well-insured this procedure. patients, and previous hospitals Although these racial dispar- now had capacity to ser ve the ities in cardiac ser vices are local urban area, which well documented, there are not includes those who are uninmany studies about solutions to sured,” Cantor said. close these gaps, according to School of Arts and Sciences the study published in the poli- sophomore Janani Shankaran cy journal Health Affairs. said the disparity is not only “African-Americans have a about race. high risk of cardiac-related “It is a good thing that the problems but were less likely racial gap disparity is closing, to receive ser vices,” but it also seems to be a socioDelia said. economic disparity as well,” Cantor said the regulations she said. were previously too tight In the findings, the authors with waiting lists and hypothesized that added hospiaccess problems. tal competition contributed to “The problem is that it’s an the reduction in disparities. expensive procedure and many During the study, Cantor do not know when to get it,” he and his colleagues found that said. “More people than neces- hospitals were not aware that sar y would have requested the this change had occurred. surger y if many hospitals “It was all done ver y pasoffered it.” sively, not purposefully,” Delia said reforms began in Cantor said. 1996, and they decided to keep The study can be found at looking at the effects of the http://content.healthaffairs.org/ changes ver y closely. cgi/content/abstract/28/5/1521. STAFF WRITER

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ty on the University for generating its own resources. “Such programs will benefit the University in many ways,” Rutgers University Student Assembly Chair Werner Born said. “I look forward to what he has to say about making the University more fiscally self-sufficient.” At last year’s address, McCormick said the best investment for financial growth lies in expanding revenue-generating programs such as professional academic programs, master’s degree programs, executive education programs and continuing education programs. “Our faculty brought in $391 million in support of their research last year,” he said. “Most universities went down, Rutgers went up … revenue from tuition and fees has continued to rise, although less this year than previous years, because there was a 3 percent cap.” Under Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Philip J. Furmanski’s leadership, virtually ever y college and school in the University is expanding previous program offerings, McCormick said. “Our philosophy has been to try to save wherever we can and marshal resources and to invest in the academic programs because in the end, that’s what the University is about,” Furmanski said. The 38 successful points include the launching of Rutgers Day, increasing security by installing 450 more security cameras University-wide and completing a permanent financing for $254 million in capital projects on all campuses. “We also received a $10 million dollar grant from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation for new facilities,” he said. Despite the successes, there were two failures: The University was not able to increase enrollment of new out-of-state and international undergraduate students by 5 percent more than the average of the three previous years, and they also were not able to increase revenue from technology commercialization by 10 percent to an annual amount of $9 million. “We did not hit that number nor did any other University in the country,” he said. “My boss, the Board of Governors, said that both failures — if you want to call them that — were because of the economic recession.” The College Avenue greening project is experiencing delays. The city asked various questions involving traffic and parking. “It’s waiting approval by the city of New Br unswick,” he said. “The plan no longer involves closing down College Avenue, but it will only open to bus traffic.” McCormick will give his annual address on Friday, Sept. 25 during the University Senate meeting at 1:10 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. “Every year I pick up particular areas of academic initiative,” McCormick said. “A couple years ago, [it was] alternative energy and climate change, [and] this year I will be talking about international education.” To view all of the goals for the 2008-2009 year, you can visithttp://www.president.rutgers .edu/strategicgoals0809.shtml.

salar y increases … that was put into the academic activities.” Class sections were consolidated to save money, resulting in fewer sections and larger sizes, according to the report. Classes with low enrollment were also cut. Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering Noshir Langrana said his department has cut staff but not classes. “We’re just managing on our own by loading faculty members with more work,” he said. “That’s all we can do because we cannot hire more people.” Political science Professor Amy Higer said she has been asked to teach more courses with more students. “I know that I’m teaching much bigger classes for the same pay,” said Higer, an adjunct professor. Livingston College senior Peter Ibarra also noticed more students in his class sections. “Personally, since my freshman year, the number of people in my classes have gone up … but I don’t know if that’s a direct result of budget cuts,” he said.

Furmanski said the larger classes are a result of the University’s record high enrollment this fall. Another area hit hard by the economy was financial aid. Vice President for Enrollment Management Courtney McAnuff said 15 percent more of the student body — about 4,000 students — have applied for aid this year, but the University has sufficient resources to meet the needs of students. “We expect to disburse about $614 million in financial aid,” McAnuff said. School of Arts and Sciences junior Jenna Hampton said she receives less aid than she did in previous years. “I don’t understand how they have more funds to build a new stadium yet I get less in my aid than I did before,” she said. Other departments made little changes to save big bucks. Art Librarian Sara Harrington said the Art Library on the College Avenue campus examined their book purchases. “It just means that we want to be very careful that every book we buy for the library is a book that’s really needed in the library,” she said. Busch Campus Dean Thomas Papathomas said faculty office telephone lines have been disconnected for the School of Arts and Sciences.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M “I understand that this saves the University a good amount,” he said. “This will save across the School of Arts and Sciences something like $2.2 million.” But he said this makes it difficult for outsiders to reach professors. The University used several energy-saving measures to conserve electricity, reducing energy bills. This included retrofitting buildings with energy-efficient products, installing energy-saving washers and dr yers — which would save about $135,000 annually — and using the free energy source of Livingston campus’ solar farm, according to the report. “It’s providing 10 percent of electricity for that whole campus and bringing down our electric bills while also improving our carbon footprint,” University President Richard L. McCormick said. “There’s practically no area in the University where we haven’t found some savings or efficiencies.” The report shows the University saved in more areas including removing landlines from residence halls and consolidating dining facilities and management operations — a savings of $1 million each — and converting more operations to the Web.

The Web-based application saves $91,000 per year and online billing services saves printing and mailing costs, according to the report. Winterbauer said the University was facing bad cuts at the start of this year’s budgeting process due to a 41 percent loss of state support and high union contract costs. But she said the cuts could have been worse if not for the $15.4 million cut of the federal stimulus package the University received, offsetting the state’s cut in funding. A second source of funds to prevent cuts came from the University’s faculty. “We’ve been talking with our unions with delaying some of the salary increases that were part of their contracts,” Winterbauer said. McCormick said last year’s rise in philanthropic donations to $128 million and revenue from tuition and fees also helps subsidize the loss of state support. But he is unsure of the status of future state support at the University. “We’re not giving up on the state of New Jersey, but for the short-run, it would be unwise to assume that state appropriations will increase,” McCormick said. “They may go down again before they go up, given the recession.”

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Kanye West doesn’t care about country music

f you thought the Michael Jackson tribute was going to be the big moment at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, then you were wrong. Rapper Kanye West and his latest stunt were the big talk across media outlets all over America yesterday. West insulted country-pop music singer and songwriter Taylor Swift when she received the award for best female video last night. In the middle of her gracious acceptance speech, West ran onstage and grabbed the microphone from her, talking up nominee Beyonce Knowles in the same category. “Taylor, I’m really happy for you, and I’m gonna let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time,” West said. Both Swift and Knowles had looks of shock on their faces and really didn’t know how to react to the statement. After receiving the “Video of the Year” award for “Single Ladies,” Knowles invited Swift back onstage to finish her acceptance speech. It was reported that West was kicked out of Radio City Music Hall shortly after his rant. West’s stunt at the award show, which is known more for its antics than the music itself, stole the spotlight for the rest of the evening. Sure, Swift gave a put-together performance after being dissed and dismissed by the rapper, Lady Gaga’s blood-smeared outfits were outrageous and the Michael Jackson tribute was great. But it is West’s big mouth that is creating a buzz. The trending topics on Twitter were all either Taylor Swift, Kanye West or VMA-related. The most watched video on CNN yesterday was the recap of Swift’s speech getting interrupted, then her being invited on stage by Knowles to try it again. Something about this non-scripted moment — as MTV had to stress it was — is making people go nuts about the ceremony and the artists it involves. West has always been known to be a loud mouth and obnoxious. Who can forget his famous comments about former President George W. Bush? Even though MTV executives and producers are saying the act was unscripted on their part, could it be that West was trying to get himself some extra press? He was photographed walking down the red carpet with a half drunken bottled of Cognac, so maybe he should just blame it on the alcohol, as they say. He has a history of ranting and raving when he doesn’t get an award or recognition for his work, so it was only expected that he would try to steal the spotlight somehow. He just chose to do it to the wrong person; it was almost like he was bullying the country star because she beat out someone whose music he preferred. This moment will only boost Swift in the eyes of Americans. The sympathy and press she is getting now is more than she could have hoped for by just winning the award. If anything, she should be thanking West for what he has done for her. Both artists will continue to see their names on television, Web sites and video clips in different media outlets as long as the clip keeps getting talked about or replayed. Already you can find it on You Tube with comments and views galore. MTV is known for their award show’s crazy moments, and this is definitely the highlight of their 2009 show, which will leave this being discussed for years to come. The public does need to remember that there are other news stories going on in the world right now that do not involve the VMAs, so it’s ridiculous to think that this can be the number two most popular story under a missing body being found on CNN. West interrupting Swift has gotten more press than Rep. Joe Wilson, Republican of South Carolina, interrupting President Barack Obama’s speech last Wednesday night with a shout of “You lie!” People are more concerned with one of popular culture’s shining good girls and loudmouthed bad boys. This is the kind of news that people go crazy for, which is kind of sad. This was one of those stories that even if you didn’t see it happen live on MTV, if you were by a computer or radio you knew that it happened. The instant updates of Facebook statuses and tweets were all about how rude West was and how Swift rocks. People choose sides between the images of “American Sweetheart” and the guy who likes to speak his mind no matter how crazy it is. It would be nice to see the same kind of enthusiasm about a story that matters. It is odd that people choose to care more about a story that has nothing to do with them and their well being over something of substance that actually does. Everyone is guilty of getting wrapped up in a popular culture tirade, rant or crazy story, but it shouldn’t be the only thing you care about. The argument over health care or what is going on with the economy or even how soldiers are still overseas should be concerning them more. But because popular culture is that break from reality into the glamorous world of parties, award shows and crazy fashion it’s easier to talk about performances, the new “Twilight” preview or what Lady Gaga was wearing around her head while she was sitting in the audience.

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incorrect to say “freshmen,” n the Sept. 7 issue of as that would denote that The Daily Targum, Eric first-year students are only Knecht attempted to men. For those wondering, write a satirical piece by it was not my idea to write mocking my Sept. 1 column, “first-years” all over my arti“Welcome first-years, now cle. While many may not get out.” He advised firstwith the magazine’s year students not to join cerBRIAN CANARES agree comedic value, it is hard to tain organizations that would disagree that political corjeopardize their academic rectness has gone overboard these days. Our sad integrity. For the most part, he trashed all forms of attempt at humorous quips are the way we act student involvement, especially the ones that offer against this accepted culture. movie nights and free pizza. He forgot, however, to The Centurion’s political activism has been mention that student organizations are not given rather notorious over the years. Our motives are much liberty to do anything else. Nevertheless, I driven to highlight certain political positions and was particularly struck by one unnamed publication policies that are in disagreement. The magazine’s he placed on there. He wrote, “(Don’t join) another annual Affirmative Action Bake Sale is usually a newspaper, particularly one where they trash the highly controversial event around the University. I type of writing found here, yet don’t write very would debate the merits of our political stance; howinsightful articles themselves.” For you first-years, ever, it is defended very well in our September 2009 he means The Centurion, a conservative-based issue by Anthony Castiglia. Instead, I want to focus magazine at the University. I have written articles on what is said about our activism for that publication, and I continaround campus. For something ue to associate myself with them. “Through the years, like the bake sale, our staff is usuBefore you decide to stop readdenoted as racist. In reality, ing, I do not own a “Palin 2012” Tthe magazine has been ally we are probably more diverse shirt, and Dick Cheney is not my hero. I do, however, take crosscalled sexist, racist and than most organizations. While most of The Centurion is white countr y trips in my Hummer — as one Medium male, our staff does consist of two while mowing down trees in the 1.5 Asians, a Middle process. On a more serious note, personal would suggest women, Eastern, and an African I believe the intentions of the — ‘white trash.’” American. I would bet there is a magazine have been widely misbetter mix of gender and ethniciunderstood. I will attempt to ty at our meetings than some of explain the actions of The the special interest councils out there. It is rather Centurion; it is up to the members of the University unwise to label us as such. Every form of our to accept them and open up dialogue or dismiss it as activism has an intended purpose. It is not to be outignorant and uninformed. We hope for the former rageously offensive, but it is used to prove a point. but expect the latter. Our problems lie with certain policies that are seen Through the years, the magazine has been called as imprudent by our side of the spectrum. We would sexist, racist and — as one Medium personal would appreciate if people engaged the merits of our suggest — “white trash.” With the exception of the actions, and not the superficiality of them. last one, we do not subscribe to any of these labels. The Liberal of the Month and Centurion Award The staff may love guns, Garth Brooks and the honors are given to those who publicly announce, Daytona 500, but we do not seriously discriminate. suggest or state their liberal views on campus. Some Those who create labels do not understand the would say it is unfair for us to single out certain deeper meaning of our message. Our purpose is to members of the University; however, we find that combat the overly politically correct nature of the each individual should be responsible for all public University. So, the magazine may have a joke or two remarks. As I expect to be held accountable for to say about the months of February and March, everything I write in my column, The Centurion but it is not intended to literally demean a gender or believes that everyone should fall under the same ethnicity. We are not ignorant to the issues that have public scrutiny. We will not make personal remarks divided our country in the past. However, we feel society, especially the University, has taken cultural SEE CANARES ON PAGE 9 sensitivity to a new level. These days, it is politically

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Students need extended Ward system beneficial for students Letter add/drop period Letter MELISSA CRAM

ormer University Senator Candice Greaux’s proposal to extend the add/drop period came as a pleasant surprise for me. Though I love the University enough to have come back for another degree, I do live in fear of how the “RU Screw” will affect my efforts to obtain an education. Greaux’s attempt to make things easier for students should be lauded. Of course, any change to University protocol must be carefully considered before being passed. Naturally, any proposed change will have its pros and cons. But the ultimate decision should be based on a measure of how advantageous it will be for the students. Students who register late for a class should already be doing so with an understanding that they will have to catch up on what they missed. This is true no matter the length of the add/drop period. On the other hand, students who feel

CANARES continued from page 8 about individuals, but we will criticize and engage their political philosophy. This holds especially true for University professors. Although there is suppose to be a certain sense of objectivism in teaching, some professors preach their viewpoints to students. Other times, they make you buy their book so you can be completely immersed in their ideology. These lessons are accepted as the only valid argument, and students seem to believe it as so. Ultimately, we seek to provide a dissent to the supposed truth these individuals speak. With all this being said, we do understand the complete nature of our magazine. The Centurion has

they cannot utilize a class should be able to drop that class, and often that judgment cannot be made based on one or two lectures. The issue there does not necessarily lie with syllabi or class information, as Dean Matt Matsuda theorized. More often, the issue is actual interaction with the professor and judging whether his or her teaching style suits the student. This sentiment is evidenced in the article, “Former U. senator proposes add/drop period extension” in yesterday’s issue of The Daily Targum, in her interviews with the more experienced students. Frankly, that sentiment should be encouraged. It shows that these students are proactive in their desire to learn. An extension to the add/drop period would enable students to better gauge the utility of their courses and would allow students to carefully consider their decisions rather than feel pressed for time. Melissa Cram is School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior. realized it has been a bit abrasive in the past, making unwarranted attacks to innocent members of the University. Should I bring up the October 2005 “Cap and Skull” issue? We seek to change this by setting a different tone to the magazine without compromising our satirical nature and political activism. In any event, please check out our latest issue, as it has set this particular approach. You can read it in the bathroom before using it as toilet paper. Or, you can use it to fire up a pig roast. We just want to be here as a true alternative to the accepted belief structure on campus. Brian Canares is Rutgers College senior majoring in history and political science. His column, “Pure Rubbish,” runs on alternate Tuesdays. He welcomes feedback at bcanares@eden.rutgers.edu.

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his is in response to the letter titled “Democracy, choice, second ballot offers that,” which ran in The Daily Targum on Sept. 11, in which the author alleges that Empower Our Neighborhoods is acting undemocratically by taking legal action against the city government’s illegal petition for an expanded at-large council. Perhaps the author is not aware of last year’s legal proceedings, in which the city government successfully stalled a petition by EON until after ballots were printed. But as a member of Unite New Brunswick, the author was most likely aware of the city government’s lawsuit that stopped EON’s satisfactor y petition last November when she wrote her letter. Yet, she accuses EON of “handcuffing” voters because of EON’s efforts to stop this second petition authorized by the city government. How can the writer accuse EON of this when the organization she works for — the city government — tried to silence EON’s original question about changing the nature of city council elections only last year? I can answer this question for us very easily. UNB, the group the author is a member of, is a front for the city government, comprised almost entirely of people with a personal stake in the current structure of New Brunswick’s government. They will do what they are told to do by the city to preserve the existing power structure. EON is a grassroots group of New Brunswick community members who have come togeth-

er on their own to build neighborhood democracy. EON believes that a ward-based city council gives power back to the neighborhoods — also known as wards — rather than New Brunswick’s ruling elite, who frequently use their positions for financial and political gain. For the majority of the people in New Brunswick, who lack political power and financial capability, this change would give us access to the decision making process, which the current electoral system does not provide. The current at-large system does not hold government officials accountable to the

“For the majority of the people in New Brunswick, who lack political power ... this change would give us access to the decision making process...” needs of most people; the atlarge system benefits the people who have the most money. People who have insufficient funds cannot run at-large and win. With a ward-based government, the person who seeks to get out and get to know their neighbors personally and the needs of their neighbors and who offers solutions to their neighbors’ problems is most likely to get elected regardless of how much money they have in the bank. This is how the people’s voice is heard! Students should know that if they are tired of endless parking tickets, getting basement shows or parties shut down and money

sucking landlords, the current system of government will not respond to their pleas. They don’t care. They like making money off your tickets, your rent and — let us not forget — your business. But if we had a ward-based government, the students — who make up nearly a quarter of New Brunswick’s population — will have their own city council representative to speak on their behalf. The author’s accusations that EON is suppressing the people’s choice is nonsense, because if EON had not originally petitioned the government last year for the ward question and had EON not fought tirelessly all year in court to give the people the ability to vote yes or no for wards, the people would have no choices this November at all. This second question that the author has petitioned for is merely a crafty tactic authorized by the existing government to distract voters in November. Their proposed second question would not change the existing at-large system but would simply add two more at-large seats. The law is very clear: There can be only one change of government question pending at a time. No matter what the city government thinks about that law, it is the legitimate product of a democratic process and it must be abided. For the city government to assert that EON is being undemocratic by following the law is appalling, and they should be ashamed of themselves. Michael Mishkovsky is a Rutgers College alumnus, Class of 2009. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies, political science and history. He was a resident assistant, academic community programmer and peer minister.

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Today's Birthday (09/15/09) Fond memories guide your actions this year. Trace your family tree back as far as you can, and understand why you do what you do.To get the advantage, check the day's rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — You want to play, yet there's work to be done. Can you delegate anything? Don't offer too little or pay too much. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Something that worked before will work again. There's been a lot of confusion, but you can find your way through it. Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7 — Don't be alarmed by incoming news. Double-check it before you take action. Some of the gossip is inaccurate. Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 — A roommate confides in you. Should you spread the word? Absolutely not. This secret is too personal to share. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Follow through with plans already made. You're assuming more authority, and that will bring greater wealth. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — You've worked hard lately. You deserve a break but don't have time. Do your deep-breathing exercises.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 5 — Go for the glamour. Intuition provides practical information. Be sure to turn off the water before you leave home. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Sexy is as sexy does. Don't be afraid to spring a surprise. Don't be surprised if someone springs one on you. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Life is hard sometimes. Get over it. Listen to other people and show them that you care. You'll be glad you did. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — Follow your intuition, because what people say is not always what they mean. Dress up your words. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6 — Love sneaks up on you while you're busy doing something else. Enjoy the surprise and respond in kind. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — You understand what you feel, but you have a hard time expressing it now. A hands-on approach may work best.

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SPORTS: Howard’s band disgraceful during RU injury continued from back up the nerves. Savage looked especially impressive against Howard, and while not much can be taken from his performance statistically, he looked poised, accurate and overall solid from under center. Off the blocks — Juniors Kevin Cronin and Nick Miehe finished first and second in the seasonopening Fordham Fiasco in New York this weekend as the men’s cross country team took third overall. Under first-year head coach Jason Bataille, the men’s golf team won the Rutgers Invitational for the first time since 2004. The Knights overtook a field of 13 teams on the links to start off the season the right way. With as much recognition the football and basketball teams get when they win, smaller sports like golf, cross country and volleyball go unnoticed. But a student-athlete is a student-athlete, and winning is winning. It still takes a great deal of talent to compete on a Division-1 level. NBA Jam Tournament Edition — I just rediscovered this on Monday. This was the height of Sega Genesis’ awesomeness (right up there with Streets of Rage), and who does not love playing as Horace Grant, goggles and all? Only in an NBA Jam game could players such as Detlef Schrempf drain nine-point jumpers on juice mode.

THE BAD Distasteful band — The Howard band is very impressive, but you will not find the word “classy” anywhere in its description. As Rutgers safety Pat Kivlehan was down and getting tended to on the field — he was later seen carted around the stadium with a right ankle injury — and Rutgers Stadium was hushed, the Howard band began to break into song. A chorus of boos eventually stopped the music, but not before the deed was done. Take it as either disrespect or an honest mistake, but regardless, the Howard band should be disgraced.

KAMARA: Work paying off on pitch for sophomore continued from back “I’ve been through all that stuff over there and I’m fortunate and thankful to be able to come over here and start a new life.” That new life began approximately 4,337 miles away from his homeland when Kamara’s mother moved him to North Brunswick. “My mom moved me over here. She had been living here for quite a while,” Kamara said. “I’m just fortunate because it was tough [in Sierra Leone] because of the war. She just decided it was time for us to get out and it was time to go to another country.” Once he arrived in New Jersey, Kamara found comfort on the soccer pitch. He was a threetime All-State selection at North Brunswick High School, scoring 28 goals as a senior. His three AllState selections made him only the fifth player in state history to have that honored bestowed on him that many times. Yet he struggled upon his arrival at RU, battling issues with

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The Howard marching band put on an impressive show but began playing at an inopportune time in the second half, when the Scarlet Knights’ Pat Kivlehan was getting treated for an injury on the field. The Jabu package — I loathe the Jabu package. Senior quarterback Jabu Lovelace’s main use in the Rutgers offense is to run the ball when he comes in, which is fine because he is effective as a power rusher. But not when the entire defense, stadium, television booth and cast of characters from “Sesame Street” can figure out what he is going to do when the ball is snapped. There is no reason to keep running it unless he is going to air out the ball on more than one occasion per game, it needs to end, and it needs to end immediately.

Not down with the Brown — Tom Savage’s best friend, Cardinal O’Hara running back prospect Corey Brown — one of the top 100 prospects in the nation on both Rivals.com and Scout.com — took his official visit to Ohio State when they played USC this weekend and gave his verbal commitment shortly thereafter. Rutgers was said to be in his final five choices. Maybe Savage can still swing something, but this looks like another elite local prospect that the Knights will not be able to hold on to.

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Bulletin board material — The men’s soccer team was never expected to go into the Un iversity of California-Santa Barbara, one of the best teams in the country, and repeat last year’s stunning upset. But UCSB took it one step further for motivation. “See what happens when an unstoppable force meets some guys from Jersey,” the Gauchos’ Web site said before the Scarlet Knights made the cross country trip. What happened? UCSB blanked RU by a 4-0 margin. Wet-noodle arm tackles — Defensive lessons are in order for the football team. After two games, I can no longer count the number of missed tackles on my fingers and toes. Along with the blown coverages, that killed the Scarlet Knights against Cincinnati and will do so again if not fixed in the near future.

Continuing with tradition — Only two months remain before the men’s basketball season star ts, so only two months remain before the obligator y Fred Hill Jr. complaints return to the Banks. Just figured I would get a jump on it now before it becomes too commonplace and loses its fun. This team has talent, let’s see how far it can go before Hill inevitably leeches all the talent from one of his better players.

Mr. West in the building — It really was not necessary to log on to Facebook Sunday night and find 274 of my friends going off about Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards.

fitness and weight in his fresh- commitment to getting in shape. man season. I’m not 100 percent in shape, but “Last year he did not come in I’m way better than where I was as fit as he should, and he will tell last year.” you that by his own admission,” Kamara’s work paid off in the Rutgers head coach Bob Reasso Scarlet Knights’ season opener, said. “He was not a factor like he a 4-3 come-from-behind thriller should have been and we had a against Towson, when he conversation about what he need- bagged a second half brace. ed to do and he’s Those are the working toward type of perform“[I want to go] back ances that. He has the that potential to play at and be somebody Kamara underthe professional stands he has to who spoke to kids. consistently prolevel, but if he wants to, he has to duce, particularly I’m in a position mature and it’s with the hole RU our job here to has to fill in the where kids help him in that of fensive third look up to you.” process.” after the deparBut a year ture of IBRAHIM KAMARA older and wiser, Dilly Duka. Sophomore Forward Kamara refocused “I definitely and rededicated think I need to himself to the game. step up,” he said. “This is quite a “I think I got a lot fitter,” the different year. Although we are sophomore said about the pretty young we still have a pretchange between this year and ty good team. We all believe in last. “Last year I was not in shape. ourselves, and for me I went I didn’t feel in shape and I was through some personal proboverweight. This year is pretty lems, but they are all gone now big so I knew I needed to get in and I think we are all in a position shape. Ever ything changed a where we have to step up and get couple months ago and I made a the job done.”

With his life established both on and away from the pitch, Kamara is in a position to help those not as fortunate as him. “Ibe wants to bring peace and justice to the world. He wants to be on one of those CSI shows — if there was a CSI New Brunswick he’d be on it,” Reasso quipped after Kamara said he plans to major in criminal justice. Kamara doesn’t deny his coach’s claim; instead he smiles and admits he could watch detective shows for two days straight. And when the discussion switches to him getting the chance to talk about his future plans to help out back in Sierra Leone, the smile won’t leave his face. “I would definitely [go back and talk to kids,]” said Kamara, who plans to make his first visit back to Sierra Leone sometime next year. “That’s my hometown so I definitely have to go back. I want to be somebody who goes back and be somebody who spoke to kids. I’m in a position [as a soccer player] where kids look up to you. They may have nothing, but they have a lot of confidence and you can tell them to continue, do like you do and they can make it to college.”

Letting go of leads — The field hockey team must really miss Amy Lewis. The Knights stand at 0-6, but they have been in ever y game. The main culprit has been a lack of secondhalf scoring that allows their opponents to over take Rutgers and win the game, a problem that head coach Liz Tchou addressed by saying her team needs to develop “poise under pressure.”

While the majority of the student body enjoyed a full weekWOMEN’S GOLF end of RUTGERS 187.950 college a n d FOURTH PLACE professional football, the Rutgers women’s golf team was busy competing in the Bison Classic at Bucknell University. The Scarlet Knights finished seventh in a 12-team field. William & Mary won the competition with a team score of 893, finishing 36 strokes ahead of its nearest competition and 74 strokes ahead of RU. Despite finishing in the bottom half of the field, head coach Maura Waters-Ballard is not disappointed by the team’s performance. “The first tournament of the year is always tough and the weather was ver y difficult to deal with,” Ballard said. “It was a pretty good field and the course was wet, which further complicated things.” Highly-touted freshman Brittany Weddell achieved an impressive performance, leading the Knights in scoring. Her collective score of 239 placed her 17th overall in a 63-person field. “I’m very excited about her,” Ballard said. “I knew she would make an impact right away and I’m really happy that my instincts on her are proving to be correct.” Sophomore Kristina Lee also turned in significant results. Following an up and down freshman year, Lee was able to start the season off positively. Her score of 243 was good enough for a near top-25 finish. Ballard believes that the consistency issues that plagued Lee throughout her freshman year are a thing of the past. “I think she is very prepared now and the experience she has gained will definitely help her,” Ballard said. Last season, junior captain Jeanne Waters grew accustomed to leading the Knights in scoring. Yet last weekend she finished third on the team with a 245. Her tournament average of 81.6 was slightly higher than her 2009 spring season average of 78.8. But Ballard is not worried about her team captain’s performance. “Jeanne will be fine. It was the first tournament of the year, which is always a little harder than the others,” Ballard said. Junior Daley Owens and sophomore Elisa Mateer rounded out the scoring for RU. Both performed better than their spring scoring averages. Following a 79 in her first round, Owens’ performance weakened as the tournament went on. But Ballard does not believe that Owens’ focus or training was lacking. “I think it was just a coincidence. She was definitely prepared,” Ballard said. The team will have a quick turnaround when they travel to Greenville, S.C. on Sept. 18 for the Furman Paladin Invitational.

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With two games under the Rutgers football team’s belt, the word “or” has nearly worked its way off the Scarlet Knights’ two-deep.

With the exception of an ongoing running back battle between sophomores Jourdan Brooks and Joe Martinek, the depth chart is set. Junior Howard Barbieri is solidly entrenched at left guard and junior Antonio

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Sophomore cornerback David Rowe (4) will get the starting nod over incumbent starter Brandon Bing on Saturday against FIU.

Lower y is officially ahead of sophomore Manny Abreu at weakside linebacker, but the two biggest dif ferences this week are at cornerback and tight end. Junior cornerback Brandon Bing held off a thriving David Rowe in an open battle for the No. 2 spot last week, but head coach Greg Schiano saw enough from Rowe against Howard to give the sophomore the nod. “I just think that David has moved in, but they’re both going to play,” Schiano said. “I think that they’re not there yet and with any group that’s not there, you have to keep tinkering.” Rowe has served primarily as a nickel and dime back for RU in the past, but the rest of the secondary is confident that the transition will go smoothly. “He’s shown that he’s able to play,” said senior cornerback and team captain Devin McCourty. “One thing about David is that he’s always calm. He’s not a guy that will get too high or too low emotionally. He’s able to just play and forget about the last play that happened.” Redshir t freshman D.C. Jef ferson — a quar terback turned tight end — impressed enough last week with his

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blocking ability and a 46-yard grab to earn another likely star t over struggling senior Shamar Graves. “I think D.C. played pretty well,” Schiano said. “I think Shamar’s really going to have to have a great week to get back on top.” Graves has just two catches for 14 yards this season, but one went for a touchdown.

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said. “If things go well, he’ll have a role in this game.”

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Florida International will be a special one for Schiano. Not only does he face off against former protégé Mario Cristobal — a former RU offensive line and tight end coachturned FIU head coach — but it marks his 100th career game with Rutgers.

THE CLARITY AT A

variety of positions, running back has gotten more and more jumbled as the year progressed. Both Brooks and Martinek have put together strong ground games so far, combining for 228 yards and four touchdowns, but add in the success of freshman De’Antwan Williams — with 89 yards against Howard — and things get a little jumbled. Then add in the latest news that junior Kordell Young could return to the mix as early as this week and touches at running back should evolve into a dogfight in the coming weeks. “Kordell does have a chance [to play this week],” Schiano

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without left guard Caleb Ruch for FIU after the sophomore hurt his leg last week against Howard. Schiano said there’s an outside shot that Ruch will play, but the team will prepare without him. Barbieri, who won the starting job over Ruch in training camp, will likely see increased reps because of the injury. Junior Mo Lange replaced Ruch on the two-deep. Sophomore safety Pat Kivlehan, however, remained on the depth chart behind junior Joe Lefeged after an apparent leg injury against Howard.

Finishing second half Knights lose first in split weekend problem in poor start BY CHRIS MELCHIORRE CORRESPONDENT

minutes, something head coach Liz Tchou has noted. SENIOR WRITER “We’ve been trying to work on They haven’t been blowouts. the details; we’ve been falling None of the Rutgers field short on some of the little h o c k e y things,” Tchou said going into FIELD HOCKEY team’s last weekend’s matchup against first six games have been out of Delaware. “We need to be more striking distance — every game disciplined in our play, and we has been lost by only one goal. need to be more consistent in But when a team’s record is how we problem solve in the 0-6, the manner of the loss is field. It’s really just trying to cut little consolation. down on the unforced errors on On paper, the team has been the field.” in ever y game until the 70th Despite scoring to open the minute and — in the case of a second half against Temple, the double over time loss — the Knights were unable to keep up 88th minute. the offensive pressure, commitThe story of the games has ting turnovers and failing to been eerily similar. move the ball The Scarlet effectively inside “We’ve been trying the zone. Knights have held a lead in the “I think that to work on the second half three when we get in the times, all of details; we’ve been 25 [yard marker], which were two we need to just go falling short on goals or more. out there and take The team held a them on,” Tchou some of the 4-2 advantage in said after the little things.” the middle of the game. “We need to second half have a more LIZ TCHOU against West aggressive mentalHead Coach Chester before ity in the 25. The the Golden Rams freedom is given to scored three them in practice, straight to stun RU in double and I’m not sure why they’re not overtime. A 3-0 lead on the road transferring that into the game.” against William & Mar y evapoWith Villanova on the horizon rated when the Tribe rallied to — the first Big East contest of score four straight. the season — the time to play a The Knights fell victim to the full 70 minutes has never been same trap Sunday against more critical. Temple, failing to score past the The Knights can effectively 40th minute of the contest and leave their first six games behind letting 3-1 lead slip away. them by stringing together a The offense is there. strong series of conference wins. Through this point last year, “We’re making improvements the Knights had scored 23 every game, which is a good goals; this year they have postsign, and we’re really excited to ed a nearly identical 21. By the go into Big East play,” said senior six-game mark last year, the back Melisa Bowman. “We’re team had put up 67 shot seeing that as a new start to the attempts. After Sunday’s conseason, and were really excited test, the number stands at 77 about that. Our confidence is up. in 2009. It’s time to forget about all these It could just as easily be a 6-0 non-conference games and all record if the team was able to these close games and go on and string together a complete 70 win at Villanova.”

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON

The Rutgers women’s soccer team made a name for itself over the years for being one of the m o s t WOMEN’S SOCCER threat3 ening RUTGERS defen0 s i v e ARIZONA teams in the countr y. So it is easy to understand why the 75th and 76th minutes of the match with No. 21 San Diego did not exactly sit well with the Scarlet Knights. In under a minute, the Knights allowed two goals Friday — double what they gave up in the season to that point — allowing San Diego to steal a late victory. Anyone who did not think that loss would serve as motivation for RU on Sunday against Arizona did not have to look past redshirt freshman Stefanee Pace’s goal in the third minute to understand the message loud and clear — the Knights did not fly all the way out to Arizona to be upset twice in one weekend. Pace’s goal was the first of three in the match for the No. 17 Knights as they rolled to a 3-0 victory, improving their record to 5-1-1. “I think the way we came out on Sunday was significant,” said Rutgers head coach Glenn Crooks. “And that was, in part, a reaction to Friday night. We played with much more energy and commitment on Sunday than we did on Friday.” Junior midfielder Ashley Jones continued her hot streak that began Sept. 6 after netting the game winner against Penn State.

HOPE: Savage trying to keep cool despite pressure continued from back One star t into his RU career, Savage is star ting to realize it’s not just Blaszczyk and his teammates that

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Junior forward Ashley Jones scored three goals for the Knights this weekend and now leads the team with 11 points and four goals.

Jones assisted Pace’s goal and scored the team’s final two goals in the 19th and 59th minute of the match, respectively. That performance comes after Jones netted her team’s only goal against San Diego. After the big weekend, Jones now leads the team in points (11), assists (3) and goals (4). “The goals that she’s scoring are great finishes,” Crooks said. “Against Arizona, she scored one angling to the right and one angling to the left. She just received the ball cleanly — just like against Penn State — and took the defender on and beat her to a spot and finished so well.” Jones’ play is a major contributor to her team’s new found ef ficiency on of fense. After struggling to convert opportunities to goals in the first week of

the season, RU seems to have taken a quality over quantity approach when it comes to the shots they take. On Sunday, the Knights took fewer shots than all but one other game this season, yet scored their second highest number of goals. Of the 10 shots RU took on Sunday, four were on goal and three went in. There’s no denying the Knights are taking better shots, but Crooks sees his team’s lower shot total as being dictated more by the opponent than by any particular strategy. “A lot of that has to do with the level of competition,” Crooks said. “When you’re going up against quality teams, you’re not going to get 28 shots, generally speaking … So, I think it’s more that than shot selection.”

are behind him, but an entire University. “I was out on College Avenue and I saw a picture of myself in the paper and I was just looking at it, but my friends made it worse,” the 19-year-old said. “I was tr ying to keep it calm, but my friends got all excited. It’s fun though.”

Always keeping a straight face on the field, it is hard to tell Savage is having fun. According to the always-excitable Brown, that is not a problem. “I’ll do the celebrating,” Brown said. “I don’t expect Tom to be hopping around after he throws a touchdown. That’s what he expects to do — just throw touchdowns.”

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True freshman Savage pushing pressure to back of mind as expectations build for starting quarterback BY STEVEN MILLER CORRESPONDENT

ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

True freshman quarterback Tom Savage has gone 23-of-36 and tossed three touchdowns since taking over for Dom Natale in the second half of the season-opening loss to Cincinnati.

Kamara leaves war-torn home to restart life in United States

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T HE GOOD, T HE B AD

ith the exception of the Rutgers football team’s season-opening loss to Cincinnati, the fall athletics season is off to its most successful start in the past few years. Bringing back a recurring theme from last spring, The Daily Targum’s Sports Editor Matthew Stein runs down the things that made this weekend in Rutgers sports good, bad and ugly.

BY KYLE FRANKO

SEE KAMARA ON PAGE 13

SEE HOPE ON PAGE 15

Historic week in RU sports begins fall season

ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

For 13 years, Ibrahim Kamara woke up each morning to the sound of gunfire and the bedlam of civil MEN’S SOCCER war in his native Sierra Leone. A bloody 11-year war entrenched the small West African nation until it ended in 2002. There were an estimated 50,000 killed and another 100,000 mutilated — many of whom were children the same age as Kamara, kidnapped and taken from their homes. Those not murdered or tortured were forced to serve in child militias as part of the rebel armies. Almost half of the country’s 4.5 million population was displaced as refugees to surrounding nations due to result of the fighting. “I was over there since the beginning of the war and it was chaos — just total chaos. The war was really upsetting,” Kamara said.

Tom Savage faked the handoff, turned and fired the ball downfield, then FOOTBALL t r o t t e d toward senior receiver Tim Brown in the end zone. No jumping, no shouting — just a simple congratulation after a 68-yard touchdown for which the freshman quar terback was equally responsible. After his first Rutgers football career start — and second appearance — one thing is clear about Savage: The kid is cool. “Tom’s pretty relaxed; that’s his personality,” head coach Greg Schiano said. “He doesn’t get too high, he doesn’t get too low — that will serve him well.” Savage, rated the No. 10 quarterback in the countr y out of high school by ESPN.com, is part of a quar terback class that has already begun to make its mark on the college landscape. University of Southern California’s Matt Barkley and Michigan’s Tate Forcier led game-winning drives against Ohio State and Notre Dame on Saturday, respectively. Savage led the Scarlet Knights past Howard. The RU victory may not have had the same impact on the national scale, but the Knights’ prized quarterback displayed the same composure beyond his years that Barkley and Forcier showcased. “I saw the highlights; that quarterback reminded me of Tom — he looks just like him,” Brown said of Barkley. “He’s got the poise and Tom’s got the poise too; they’re both great quarterbacks.” Although Savage is familiar with Barkley through recruiting camps,

Schiano is not concerned with the other freshmen gunslingers. “I don’t know about other people’s situations,” Schiano said. “I know about ours … we have a guy in Tom [Savage] who we think gives us the best chance to win.” Savage did that against Howard, completing 8 of 13 passes for 223 yards and two touchdowns. In the process, he became the fifth quarterback in school histor y to start a game as a true freshman and just the second to win his first start. “He came in and it was 0-0,” Schiano said of the differences between Savage’s Cincinnati debut and Howard start. “I think that … he started a game and did the things he needed to do to put the ball downfield and into the end zone — that’s probably the biggest thing.” Savage admitted having pregame nerves. With the offense in his hands, he also admitted that he had to go against his naturally quiet and reserved disposition. The need to take charge was something that senior center and captain Ryan Blaszczyk emphasized to Savage before kickoff. “In the pre-game I told him, ‘The offense is only going to go as far as our quarterback leads us, so when we get on the field, be confident, be loud, be vocal, and it will instill confidence in ever yone else,’” Blaszczyk said. “I saw that a lot.” In fact, it was Blaszczyk’s words that instilled confidence in Savage. “That gave me chills a little bit, to have a senior offensive lineman talk to me like that,” Savage said. “But it definitely gave me a lot of confidence, knowing they’re behind me.”

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Forward Ibrahim Kamara came to the United States to escape civil war in his home country of Sierra Leone. In his second season with RU, he has two goals in four starts so far.

Winning ways — True, the volleyball team is just 3-7 this season, but think about this. In his second year on the Banks, head coach C.J. Werneke has surpassed last season’s win total and equaled that of the 2007 season, while bringing in better recruiting classes and trying to change the attitude around the College Avenue Gym. Sounds a little too much like Greg Schiano, and yes, it is nowhere near on the publicity level of football, but credit

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is still deserved. Stringer enters Hall — A long overdue honor sent Rutgers women’s basketball head coach C. Vivian Stringer into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Friday night with the likes of David Robinson, John Stockton, Jerr y Sloan and some bum named Michael Jordan. Stringer’s speech was classy, elegant and from the heart, and it’s amazing that she kept her composure without shedding tears during parts of it. The speech was long, but she had a lot to say, and congratulations go out to her for this illustrious honor. Forever young — They will not be young, or at Rutgers, forever, so enjoy the youthfulness of quarterback Tom Savage and the Rutgers football team’s trio of running backs before Big East play works

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