The Daily Targum 2009-10-19

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The Rutgers football team could not stop the run and failed to take advantage of Pittsburgh mistakes, falling to 0-2 in the Big East with a 24-17 loss to the Panthers Friday night at Rutgers Stadium.

Anti-Semitic group to protest at U. Hillel

BY JOHN S. CLYDE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Picketers from the infamously antiSemitic, anti-Catholic and anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church are scheduled to protest Oct. 28 at 8:45 a.m. outside Rutgers Hillel. “[The University is] aware that a small protest has been planned. We have been in contact with both the protesters who informed us of their plans and with Hillel,” said Director of Media Relations E.J. Miranda, who declined to give further comment.

Member and Attor ney for the Westboro Baptist Church Shirley Phelps-Roper expects about 10 protesters from the group, which tries to spread its message through protests around the countr y, to protest outside Hillel.

“The Westboro Baptist Church is an extremist organization that espouses the most despicable forms of antiSemitic hate speech,” said Student Board President Hilary Neher on behalf of Rutgers Hillel. “Rutgers Hillel abhors their message, which is based entirely on condemning and attacking not only Jews, but homosexuals, Catholics, and other Christian denominations. ” Rutgers Hillel will announce details of a counter protest later in the week and invites the University community to join together against the Westboro Baptist Church, according to the statement.

“Hatred like this has no place on our campus,” Neher said in the statement.

The Westboro Baptist Church engages in more than 41,000 protests, some of which have taken place near

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Westboro Baptist Church member Shirley Phelps-Roper demostrates in Memphis, Tenn. The group has participated in more than 41,000 protests and is scheduled to protest Oct. 28 at the University.

Second face-off sparks education, gay marriage disputes

BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

At the second New Jersey gubernatorial debate, the three candidates may have all agreed that Bruce Springsteen is their favorite

N.J. rocker and that the New York Giants — which they agreed should be from the state — are better than the Philadelphia Eagles.

But the three expressed differences on the revitalization of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, gay

marriage and higher education at the debate Friday at William Patterson University in Wayne, N.J. Democratic candidate Gov. Jon S. Corzine relayed his past work to make higher education more affordable in the state.

“We have increased tuition aid grants to our students by about $100 million over the last three and a half years,” Corzine said.

This helped students pay for the increasing tuition, he said.

UNIVERSITY Along with researchers from other universities, a professor uncovers a compound in olive oil that has a critical effect on the processes of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Look inside to find out where the only sports bar in New Brunswick is located — and what the employees are wearing.

The NJ STARS program, which pays for high-achieving students in the community to transfer to a public state college of their choice after two years, has expanded from

Demolition trucks claw down pieces of Neubies restaurant last week to make room for the Gateway project. By Nov. 15, the city is scheduled to begin construction.

CITY TEARS DOWN NEUBIES IN GATEWAY PROJECT PREPARATION The demolition of the former Neubies restaurant on Somerset Street as construction of the Gateway project is one step closer to being underway.

The project, which will be situated on Wall Street, Easton Avenue and Somerset Street, will consist of a grocer y store, general offices, miscellaneous retail, 192 residential units, a University bookstore and a multilevel parking garage.

President of the New Brunswick Development Corporation Chris Paladino said on Nov. 15, DEVCO will have the site under control.

“We hope that [NJ Books owner Ed] Mueller will be able to move within the next two weeks to the NJ Books store and we’ll begin complete demolition,” Paladino said.

“We actually hope to be underway in fullblown construction on Nov. 15.”

He said DEVCO received permission from the city to close Wall Street and they will be closing the site by putting up barriers and fences.

Easton Avenue and Somerset Street will be closed on the side of the old NJ Books store, Neubies and Little Teddy’s, he said.

Pedestrians will have to walk on the opposite side of the street where Old Queen’s campus is.

“It’ll be a little inconvenient for a couple of years, people having to walk on the opposite side of the street and closing some lanes of traffic, but I think it will be an extraordinary project when it’s completed,” Paladino said.

He said the street will be closed until the summer of 2012 and the new University bookstore will be ready to open for the fall 2012 semester.

— Heather Brookhart

As winter weather approaches, students affiliated with Energy Ser vice Corps premiered their first weatherization event on Friday afternoon in several students’ offcampus residences.

The initiative, a joint effort from AmeriCorps and New Jersey Public Interest Research Groups Student Chapters, teaches residents how to be more energy efficient through simple cost-saving measures.

The tools of the trade are inexpensive, but can save residents up to 30 percent on their heating and electric bills, Energy Service Corps intern Nicole McCann said.

“The energy problem is over whelmingly complicated,” College Avenue Campus Dean Matt Matsuda said.

“Like world hunger, it requires a very local effort with global help.”

Matsuda was impressed with the turnout of the event, noting that half of the people in the students’ living room were volunteers. He praised the leadership displayed by Energy Service Corps.

Cook Campus Dean Richard Ludescher said Americans have had the luxury on cheap energy for hundreds of years, which is an era that has come to a close.

“Americans now have two good reasons to cut back: the economy and the environment,” Ludescher said.

NJPIRG program director Liz Glynn wrote the grant that earned the three-year contract with AmeriCorps.

The funding comes largely from AmeriCorp’s $201 million expansion under President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan.

Before any changes are made, an energy audit is performed to determine what will be needed for the job, Glynn said. Windows are assessed, ceiling light bulbs are counted, appliances are traced to outlets and vents are inspected for cleanliness.

While these may seem like minutia, they are the most common conduits for wasted energy, she said.

Members of the Energy Service Corps then split into groups so three houses could

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Olive oil transforms Alzheimer’s studies

VISITOR CENTER TO OFFICALLY OPEN IN FRONT OF U. COMMUNITY

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The Visitor Center on Busch campus officially opens its doors Wednesday at 4 p.m. during a ribbon cutting ceremony, according to a University Media Relations press release.

Attendees includes representatives from the University Class of 1951 and other alumni.

The Class of 1951 donated $700,000 to the center which was put toward the scarlet wall and multimedia exhibits, according to the release. Donations from other alumni totaled $66,000, which was invested in high-tech features meant to instruct visitors on University histor y and accomplishments.

“It is gratifying that the Class of 1951 and other Rutgers alumni have chosen to make the new visitor center part of their legacy to the University,” said President Richard L. McCormick. “For years to come, future Rutgers students will be introduced to our history, accomplishments and people in an exciting, contemporary setting that befits a great institution.”

The 12,000 square feet Visitor Center was built to dazzle thousands of perspective students and their parents during their first visits to the University, according to the release.

Designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the Class of 1951’s scarlet wall is 42 feet long by 8 feet high and houses an interactive histor y of Rutgers-New Brunswick/Piscataway, Newark and Camden on one side and a University timeline on the other, according to the release.

“We wanted it to have the ‘wow’ factor for prospective students,” said Courtney McAnuff, vice president for enrollment management. “You only get one chance to make a first impression.”

— Sara Gretina

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A major breakthrough treatment for Alzheimer’s disease might be on its way, and a University professor among others would be the one to claim its birth.

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences professor Paul Breslin has led researchers to potentially find a major discovery in research on treatments for the disease.

Research has found that oleocanthal, a naturally occurring compound found in extra-virgin olive oil, has the potential to serve as a preventative and therapeutic treatment for Alzheimer’s disease, which might eventually lead to a cure, Breslin said.

“We found that oleocanthal can help prevent the formation of the amyloid plaques that form in the gaps between neurons that’s responsible for disrupting neural function and ultimately killing neurons,” he said.

The next step involves conducting clinical trials in animals to see if these results translate to living things, Breslin said.

These trials will determine whether or not they have found a legitimate cure for Alzheimer’s disease.

Although this is a critical step in the development of the research, due to the lack of funds, clinical trials have not begun yet, Breslin said.

“We’d like to [have clinical trials] but it’s very expensive, so we would need a partner who is

“Both the prevention and the treatment of Alzheimer’s is a pretty significant thing if it is effective.”

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interested in funding the work,” he said.

The idea of oleocanthal as a preventative agent to Alzheimer’s is a new idea that could have a great impact on the research and eventual curing of the disease, Breslin said. If the clinical trials go well, it could lead to a cure.

“Both the prevention and the treatment of Alzheimer’s is a pretty significant thing if it is effective,” Breslin said. “Alzheimer’s is a terminal dementia that ruins peoples lives and kills them, and

the probability that you get it goes up considerably with age.”

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student Alex Funck said he knew someone with the disease who faced the same circumstances, which progressively became worse.

“Initially he would forget to do simple tasks. … He would eventually have trouble remembering key events or people,” Funck said.

“It put a strain on his family, who thought they were losing him.”

If the research proves to be a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, it will have a profound effect on future generations, Breslin said.

School of Engineering firstyear student Isaiah McNeill said this would aid families with relatives suffering from the disease in a number of ways.

“If this research finds a cure [there will be] less deaths, less people in nursing homes because more people would be able to care for themselves and [it would] also lead to less stress on families who have to send them to a nursing home or take care of them themselves,” he said.

It would allow people to have more money in their pockets because they wouldn’t have to pay for the nursing home or health care or things like that, McNeill said.

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HOUSES: Basements, water pipes waste energy continued from front be audited at once. Volunteers caulked cracks, shelved permeable air conditioners, weatherstripped windows and swapped wasteful light bulbs for lowerenergy alternatives.

“A lot of windows don’t close completely, but caulk and weather strips make a big difference,” said McCann, a Cook College junior. “This is especially true for single pane windows that lack extra insulation.”

Basements are the biggest culprits of wasted heat, McCann said. Ground level windows are rarely tight and exposed hot water pipes give off a lot of heat.

PROTEST: RUSA plans to stand against demonstration continued from front the funerals of American soldiers, according to the group’s Web site.

The group is scheduled to protest at 11 other New Jersey locations, including New Brunswick High School on Oct. 27-28, according to their Web site.

“Rutgers is a fluffy house of idols. It’s a place where the arrogant, stupid doomed Americans … send their children to educate,” said Phelps-Roper when asked why the group chose to protest at the University.

Phelps-Roper said children anger God with filthy habits, false gods and a belief that they can do whatever they want.

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Pipe insulators are sold for less than $1 per foot.

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior Maryann Gulotta, a resident of one of the houses, was pleased with the results.

“My room is already much warmer,” she said. “I think this will make a big difference in the electric bill.”

Gulotta said the biggest help will be unplugging the washer and dr yer in the basement.

Because it requires coins, no one uses it, but it still consumes electricity when dormant.

Campus Organizer for AmeriCorps Heather Plante was also happy with the results.

“All three houses were a success,” she said. “We taught more than 10 people how to weather-

ize their homes and we learned a lot too.”

The Energy Ser vice Corps plans to weatherize 20 homes this semester, and more if possible, Plante said. They encourage people to reach out to them and provide feedback to see how effective their efforts are.

They will be successful, but they must work hard to earn people’s trust.

“We want people who are motivated to get involved,” McCann said. “We’re not just here to come over and clean up your house for you.”

Household weatherization is one of four main operations of the Energy Ser vice Corps, Plante said. Other services include community workshops, free energy auditing, door-to-door grassroots canvassing and K-12 education.

“You’re going to get some ‘edumacation’ [sic] at Rutgers and you’re going to be so fluffy and smart when they get done — I’m being completely sarcastic,” Phelps-Roper said. “It’s a place where the children of this nation are taught rebellion against God and they have a name in this country and God hates them.”

Phelps-Roper said the 36,000 students at Rutgers-New Brunswick have the right to be told the truth about what God requires of them.

Members of the community expressed disappointment and anger that members of the Westboro Baptist Church are coming to the University.

“This organization’s values [are] inconsistent with the mission of the University,” said Student Representative to the Board of Governors Eric Kaplan, an active

Hillel member. “Let’s be clear about this, [Westboro Baptist Church] is a hate group. Their values are not consistent with the values of the Rutgers community.”

Rutgers has always been about diversity and Rutgers Hillel has always been embracing that mission, said School of Arts and Sciences senior Yonaton Yares, an active Hillel member.

“It is very disheartening to see that [the Westboro Baptist church] would go and do that,” Yares said.

Kaplan encouraged students to remain peaceful when advocating for their views.

“I think peaceful, respectful protest is the best way to express your opinion,” Kaplan said.

The Executive Board of the Rutgers University Student Assembly intends to present a resolution condemning the actions of Westboro Baptist Church to the gen-

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Fresh produce grown locally decorate tables Saturday at “Harvest Moon Festival.” Hosted by the New Brunswick Community Farmers Market, the festival included games, raffles, and arts and crafts.

eral body at their Oct. 22 meeting in the Visitor Center on Busch campus, said RUSA Chair Werner Born.

“It’s something they have every constitutional right to partake in, but at the same time it’s almost as if these people go out with the pure intent of just bothering people and just trying to agitate the community,” he said.

Born said there needs to be a police presence around the group because protests like these agitate people.

“Especially at a school as diverse at Rutgers, it is really alarming and it could easily escalate to something that would not be a good situation,” Born said.

The group should protest outside Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus if they want to express their viewpoints, Yares said.

“I do believe it is inappropriate to be protesting outside of a stu-

dent center [such as] Rutgers Hillel,” Yares said.

Hillel is a place that is open to all ideas regardless of where people come from, Yares said. This week, Hillel is participating in a dialogue between Christians, Muslims and Jews.

The dialogue is scheduled to take place Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Graduate Student Lounge of Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, Kan., has about 50 members and about 70 people attend their Sunday ser vices, Phelps-Roper said.

She said members of the community who did not want the group near campus should, “Shut the hell up and obey your God.” To view Rutgers Hillel’s complete statement visit dailytargum.com.

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U. association entertains academic, social programs

BY AVANI VYAS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Rutgers University Programming Association delivers many programs to mix up the studying, exams and papers students face throughout the school year.

The student-run council provides a diverse schedule and social programs for students, Assistant Director of Student Centers and Programs Lori Smith said.

“Our mission statement is to create an experience and to make those college experiences memorable,” said Ana Castillo, RUPA President and School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore.

They plan hundreds of programs each year that range from enter tainers like Saves the Day, Kanye West and Jamie Kennedy to guest speakers like Padma Lakshmi and Ralph Nader, according to RUPA’s Web site. They also host many game shows, art shows, workshops, of f-campus trips and movies on campus.

Throughout October, RUPA holds many events such as the Jack Mannequin’s concer t, “Speed Dating,” “Movie Knight” and “N.J. Comedy Festival: Competition,” Smith said.

The members of RUPA research the best types of events for students on college campuses, she said.

“We try to provide a balance that students like between academics and social,” Smith said.

Many of RUPA’s events and services are free or low-cost to students despite the economy crisis, she said.

“RUPA works to create a unique college experience for students at the University,” said Greg Kassee, a RUPA member.

By organizing record-breaking events, such has the largest gathering of people dressed as Waldo last April, RUPA helps the University community unite, according to the site.

“We hope to provide entertainment for the community of Rutgers,” said Kassee, a Livingston College senior.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Melissa Murano said RUPA is good for the University.

“It helps the students and gives them the chance for leadership opportunities, and the events are great and allow us to stay connected,” she said.

RUPA is open to all University students.

“It is great that RUPA holds many events for the students at the University because they are very fun and gives all the students a little something to do when they want to take a break from their studies, or if they just want to have fun,” said Maria Cardinale, an Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy first-year student.

RUPA holds its general meetings on the third Monday of every month.

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The Livingston Campus Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. in Room 113 of the Livingston Student Center. They hold weekly meetings.

The SEBS/Cook Campus Council will hold their weekly meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Cook Campus Center.

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The Pharmacy Governing Council meets at 6:40 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center Room 122. They hold bi-weekly meetings.

The Douglass Governing Council meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Trayes Hall A of the Douglass Campus Center.

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DISPUTES: Candidates disagree on Meadowlands complex continued from front 900 to 4,600 students, he said.

His administration has also capped public university tuition increases at 3 percent — one of the lowest in the nation.

The government must help students pay for tuition, but also be aware of the constraints the state faces on its budget, he said.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie said the state throughout the past decade has not helped high education institutions.

The grants do not help alleviate the high tuition and fees students face, making education a top economic issue for this election, he said.

It is important to keep students in the state because then they are more likely to raise a family and work here when they graduate, Christie said.

This fall, 33,000 New Jersey students left the state to go to college elsewhere and it tears families apart.

“Higher education isn’t just an important economic issue, it’s an

ACTIVIST TO VISIT U. DURING CELEBRATION OF AFRICANA STUDIES The University announced Friday that enter tainer and activist Henry Belafonte is scheduled to come during the spring semester in celebration of the Department of Africana Studies’ 40th anniversary.

Belafonte’s appearance is one of six events in the “Africana on the World Stage” series the University has planned for the academic year to commemorate the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

“Africana Studies has always had a global dimension that emphasized the transmigrations of Africans throughout the world,” said Gayle Tate, chair of the department. “The theme embraces the internationalism of our roots.”

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous is scheduled to present the keynote speech and moderate a panel discussion Tuesday, Oct. 27 entitled “Civil Rights in the Age of Obama,” followed by a question and answer session, according to a University press release.

For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit http://africanastudies.rut gers.edu.

— Lauren Caruso

important family issue as well,” Christie said.

Independent candidate Chris Daggett said the state is the worst in the nation in terms of investing in higher education, as New Jersey has disinvested throughout the past decade.

“It’s shameful. We are putting ourselves in the positions where our best students — some of them are staying here and it’s great— are going out of state,” Daggett said.

While tuition aid grants help alleviate costs for students, it does not solve the deficits many colleges face, he said.

“The state colleges have to borrow money, and they now collectively have something like $3.8 billion in debt to build dorms and classroom space on their own because they’re not getting the proper assistance from the state,” Daggett said.

Grants do not help build facilities, encourage research and bring more top professors to the state’s universities, which is what they need, he said.

The three candidates also differed with the possibility of signing a gay marriage law.

Corzine and Daggett said they would sign one, citing the

equality of all men and women as their reason.

“I’ve made it very clear. I would sign a marriage-equality law … all men and women are created equal and should be treated equal under the law,” Corzine said.

But Christie would not.

“Xanadu may be the ugliest thing and I never would have built it ...”

CHRIS DAGGETT Independent Gubernatorial Candidate

“I believe marriage should remain between one man and one woman,” Christie said. “It’s a deeply held belief that I have.”

He does support civil unions, saying they provide the same contractual rights for gay couples as marriage does.

Christie said if the public wants gay marriage, he would put the issue up to a vote and let the majority decide.

But the constitution protects the equal rights of all people, and

OCTOBER 19, 2009 these rights need to be protected regardless of what a majority says, Corzine said.

A third issue the candidates differed was their vision for the Meadowlands Sports Complex, including the unfinished fivestory Xanadu entertainment and retail center — to be the largest in the U.S. — and allowing gambling casinos there.

Christie said Xanadu is a disaster.

“It’s not only a complete disaster financially, it hasn’t opened on time and there is no realistic timetable when it will open on time, [but] it’s the darn ugliest thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said.

The Xanadu issue needs to be investigated because a lot of taxpayer dollars have been used to construct it, Christie said.

In terms of casino gambling in the Meadowlands, Christie said he would not expand it there.

“I would not look to expand casino gambling anywhere else in the state of New Jersey until we fix Atlantic City and return it to profitability,” he said.

Daggett agreed Xanadu needs to be investigated but said no matter what it must be opened.

“Xanadu may be the ugliest thing and I never would have

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built it, but we better figure how to open it because if we don’t, we’ve got a big white elephant that’s going to really harm us,” Daggett said.

Xanadu needs to be privatized and given a timeframe for completion, he said.

Daggett also agreed that casinos should not be built there, but slot machines should be allowed at the racetracks.

“We need to make sure that in the end that whole problem is thought through carefully with all aspects of the meadowlands gambling and casinos,” he said.

Corzine disagreed with Daggett and Christie, saying the new Giants/Jets stadium is a “centerpiece of renewal” for the region.

“I think the Meadowlands is going to be a tremendous success,” he said.

Corzine admitted Xanadu needs to be reexamined, but said it has to be completed.

The issue for its delay is the financial environment, he said.

Once it improves, Xanadu can open.

He concluded by saying there would be no gambling in the Meadowlands because he wants to protect the franchise and workers in Atlantic City.

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New sports bar slides into city’s restaurant scene

BY HEATHER BROOKHART

The bar has 12 beers on draft and nothing on the menu is more than $10, he said. Some of the For sports fans, there’s a new signature 4-ounce sliders include bar and grill in town. the “Kobe,” “Mushroom Medley At Sliders Bar and Grill, Sirloin,” “Pickled Red Onion,” located 378 George St., the “Shish Kebab” and “Lobster waitresses and bar tenders Crab Cake.” dress in referee uniforms and The grill also offers various will soon have whistles and red appetizers, salads, soups, wraps, flags to aler t sandwiches and when customers beef, chicken, “It’s a really spill a drink. With seafood and vege15 television tarian sliders. fun atmosphere, screens and two Compared floors, Sliders other but it’s also higher with also has a DJ that restaurants and class, so it attracts bars downtown, p e r f o r m s on Thursday, Sliders is more both ends.”

Friday and af fordable, said VENICE NOLLORA Saturday nights.

E m p l o y e e Sliders Bar and Grill Employee Sliders shows Venice Nollora.

NFL Sunday Domestic bottles Ticket games, of beer are $3.50 Rutgers football games when and imported bottles are $4. they’re televised and the upcom“I think what sets it apart is ing NFL playoffs and World it’s a really fun atmosphere, but Series, Owner Adam Zebib said. it’s also higher class, so it Sliders also shows Ultimate attracts both ends — college Fighting Championship matches. kids as well as all the business “People should come to professionals,” said Nollora, a Sliders because we have good, Rutgers College senior. inexpensive food, a lot of beer to Customer Jared Axelrod said choose from, a nice atmosphere, he stopped by the bar after good people and cute girls,” work and likes the atmosphere Zebib said. “We’re the only one at Sliders. that shows all the spor ting “The beers are really good; I events in town.” like the range of drafts,” he METRO EDITOR

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Sliders Bar and Grill, located downtown at 378 Easton Ave., has nothing over $10 on the menu and serves numerous 4 oz. beef, chicken, seafood and vegetarian sliders. said. “It seems reasonably priced, it’s upscale but not expensive and the staf f is really nice.”

Zebib said the grill opened

Oct. 7 and had a great response on the first day, with about 800 people coming through the bar.

Some of the promotions the bar has coming up include

Ser vice Industr y Night on Mondays, and during NFL games, customers who buy a pitcher of beer can receive a free Sliders pizza.

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Model citizen factory restricts expression

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orehouse College, a small historically black college in Atlanta, announced Saturday a policy to ban crossdressing at the school. The ban is aimed at a small percent of the college’s student body, the homosexual community, said William Bynum, the vice president of student ser vices.

“We are talking about five students who are living a gay lifestyle that is leading them to dress a way we do not expect in Morehouse men,” Bynum said in an ar ticle on CNN.com.

Morehouse, while it only has a student body of 2,700, has long prided itself on producing upstanding role model citizens.

Graduates of Morehouse include Mar tin Luther King Jr., actor Samuel L. Jackson and director Spike Lee. The school has a policy called the “Appropriate Attire Policy” that the new piece of legislation would fall under. The policy also outlaws wearing hats in buildings, pajamas in public, do-rags, sagging pants, sunglasses in class and walking barefoot on campus. While it may seem ridiculous to place a ban on dif ferent types of attire, one has to remember that Morehouse is a private school.

The private school issue is the single most important issue when determining whether placing a ban on cross-dressing in appropriate or not. As a private institution, Morehouse has the right to regulate what is worn on school grounds. If it was a public university like Rutgers, there is no way a piece of policy like this would fly. At a public university this becomes a First Amendment right where there is a clear violation of the opportunity to express oneself. But at Morehouse, a private institution with a past histor y of defining what students can and cannot wear, there is not much of a surprise that they would go down this route.

Despite Morehouse’s standing as a private institution, there is still an issue with singling out a specific group of people. Bynum said he spoke to the campus’ gay organization Morehouse Safe Space, and the group voted 27-3 in favor of the ban on cross-dressing. That’s great that he went to the group, but does the Safe Space speak for the few students that are being called out by the policy? Bynum said the policy is aimed at a small group of five students, and in a campus community that is only 2,700 students, it’s not like the rest of the student body doesn’t know who is being singled out.

Isn’t college about exploration, where young adults head of f for four years to figure “stuf f” out about themselves? But what if some of that stuf f is investigating gender roles? Does choosing to cross-dress make you ignorant or blind to issues influencing the world? It doesn’t, but you can see where Morehouse would have a problem; it’s a college with principles based on shaping “Morehouse men,” as one student in the school put it in the CNN ar ticle. They have standards to uphold, and cross-dressers just don’t cut it.

While the policy has now spread to cross-dressing, it also raises larger issues regarding stereotypes. Morehouse, while it has a rich tradition of producing some of the finest black leaders, is turning itself into a “Model Citizen Factor y” with its policy on the subject of how its students can and cannot dress. Just because a small group of students choose to dress a certain way does not mean they represent blacks as a whole. There is nothing that says these students won’t be fine upstanding citizens in the future.

But admittedly, it is hard not to look at people and stereotype them. Almost ever ybody does it; we tell ourselves not to judge people on their image, but if we see somebody who chooses to cross-dress we might think “weird.” Morehouse is tr ying to protect an image with its policy. The upper-ups there know all about the rep that young blacks get in society because people are too quick to turn on a rap video and stereotype. It’s not fair to stereotype based on a small sampling of the population, but we do it.

Turn on the news and how often is the lead stor y a murder or some other crime committed by a person of color. Of course they’re not the only people who commit crimes, but when the news leads with the latest who-killed-whom from the inner city it’s hard not to stereotype. Now consider what this “Model Citizen Factor y,” a place of higher learning that prides itself on producing some of the finest upstanding citizens in the countr y thinks about having a few cross-dressers at their prestigious college.

Morehouse is a private college; it can do as it pleases to regulate what students wear. It creates “Morehouse men,” but crossdressers — well, apparently they are not Morehouse men. Heck, if it’s such a problem, why don’t we put ever ybody in a uniform? It’s not like anyone will not know who the students in question are.

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n this oversensitive — complain multiple times sue-happy world that about feeling uncomfor twe live in, I sometimes able due to the actions of a wonder when we should company’s employee, take action or let things go. something should be done.

As a female, I deal with this No matter if the manager question quite frequently, — or in this case, the lieuand I personally feel that ANNA NORCIA tenant of security — does when something makes you not think the situation warfeel uncomfor table, you rants a complaint, they should never let it go. This thought crept into my should still ensure the person they will look into head after my roommate and I had a run-in with it, and that it would not happen again. Were we workers at Rober t Wood Johnson University too quick to complain? Should we have just let it Hospital. During last semester, we started realizgo and given the cold shoulder? No, absolutely ing that men continually cat-calling us were not. The statute for harassment states that “any RWJUH workers. It was nothing that warranted action deemed as an annoyance” can be harasscalling the police, but it still made us feel uncomment. Yes, this is a broad definition, but it fortable. After a week, we were just tired of it, so means that we technically could file charges we called the hospital and tried to contact whoevagainst their employees, something I know the er was in charge of these workers to get the situhospital would not be happy about. If we had let ation taken care of. Three days later, I had been the cat-calling go, what else should we have let transferred about a thousand times and no one go — unwanted conversation or touching? owned up to being in charge of There has to be a line drawn, these men. So, frustrated and and I think it should be right at “If we had let the annoyed, I gave up. However, the star t of harassment. There cat-calling go, what else is a proper way to engage conthe cat-calls stopped; obviously, someone I had talked to did with a person — it should we have let go — versation relay the message while claimstar ts with “hello,” not some ing not to know anything. It was unwanted conversation or degrading mannerism or sayupsetting that no one would ing. Even if the conversation is touching? There has to be star ted appropriately, honor if help me, but I got what I wanted. The calls of “Hey baby”, that other person does not a line drawn ...”

“You need some help there want it to continue. No one beautiful?” and “You’re fine” should be an object, and as a slowed down to almost a complete stop. female, I am tired of being seen as one when I We came back this year and expected it to stay walk down the street. I know not all men do this, the same, but of course it did not. After a RWJUH but for those who do, think about how you worker more aggressively cat-called my roomwould feel if someone was doing that to your mate, she decided to do something about it. She mother, sister or girlfriend. spent a whole morning on the phone with the hosThere are two things to learn from this. One is pital being transferred. However, she had a little be respectful and treat every female you meet as more luck than me; she happened to have all you would like them to treat the women in your females on the other end of the line, and they life. Secondly, even though RWJUH has an outsympathized with her stor y. She was finally put in standing medical record, they might want to work contact with the head lieutenant of security for on the rest. They should rethink how they deal the hospital, but he was the least helpful of all. He with complaints about employees and who they told her “to chill out and learn to take a compliput in charge of security. If a harassment comment. He was only tr ying to be nice.” My roomplaint does not warrant special attention, then I mate promptly hung up the phone and spent the don’t know what does. rest of the day feeling like she had been the one who had done something wrong.

Anna Norcia is a School of Environmental and Does anyone else see something wrong with Biological Sciences senior. Her column, “Just the this situation? If two people — regardless of sex Facts,” runs every alternate Monday.

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Combat hate together Letter AARON I. MARCUS

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his Wednesday at 8:45 a.m. the radical and hate inspired Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest at the University. The so-called “religious organization,” infamous for protesting the funerals of American soldiers with signs reading “God Hates Fags,” “Thank God for IED’s” and “God Hates America,” plan to protest outside of the University’s Hillel House at 93 College Ave. But this group is not a political group, they do not wish to protest policy or even the existence of Israel; no, this group is protesting the existence of the Jewish people and the University’s acceptance of homosexuals on campus.

Whether you are conservative, liberal, independent or unaffiliated, no one should tolerate hate speech. The group believes that homosexuals, Jews, Catholics, Muslims and Hindus are the primary factor contributing to the decay of the world, and they are willing to publicly inflict fear and hatred in order to have their abhorrent opinions heard.

The church celebrates death and agony. They enjoy seeing the families of dead Jews, homosexuals, Muslims, Hindus and Catholics suffer, they laugh in the faces of the deceased and tell parents of fallen soldiers that they thank God for their dead children.

The founder of the group, Fred Phelps, once led a protest outside the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., where he proceeded to call the Holocaust

“miniscule” and called Jews the real Nazis. He is the same man that protested at the trial of Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, convicted of the murder of Matthew Shepard. They carried signs reading “Matthew Shepard Rots in Hell” and “AIDS Kills Fags;” this was, of course, after they had already protested Shepard’s funereal. Now the group plans on coming to the University simply because we represent a certain racial, religious and sexual tolerance that is unparalleled in the nation. This is what the members of the Westboro Baptist Church hope to break down.

While conventional wisdom may urge you to pay no attention to these hate induced degenerates for the attention they seek, as a university we must stop those who wish to destroy. All evil revolutions started with words and small groups of people. Elie Wiesel once said, “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Let us not be silent or stand idly while people try to tear down the very fabric of our university and nation. This is your chance to fight injustice and hate and stand up for what you believe in. Want to make a difference in the world? Stand up for something worth fighting for.

The University should band together — all nationalities, religions, genders, sexual orientations — and combat hatred together.

Aaron I. Marcus is a School of Arts and Sciences first-year student majoring in political science and history.

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Don’t resort to disrespect Letter DEIRDRE S. HOPTON

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s a correspondent for The Daily Targum, I strive to keep my own opinions in check so that I may act as an impartial obser ver when sharing the news.

However, my opinion is suddenly too over whelming to keep to myself, and I am sorry to say that it is our very own publication that has awakened within me such a sense of disgust.

In Friday’s “Laurels and Darts,” darts were thrown to the folks who come and hand out Bibles every semester or so. The crimes of these people, according to the editorial, include “mak[ing] students more disrespectful” and serving as “an interruption when already hustling to class or trying to catch a bus.”

Are you serious? I mean, really?

I do not care to which faith or spiritual belief you subscribe.

Those people believe they have found something wonderful. They truly believe those Bibles act as a prescription for a good life, and they have found some joy within its pages. In giving them out, they are basically saying, “This little book gives me joy. Here’s one for you, in case it brings you some joy, too.”

Whether you subscribe to Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, paganism, humanism, agnosticism or any other –ism, you should appreciate the fact that these people strive to share their joy with others. They ask for nothing in return, and in fact you admit in your editorial, “none of

the people handing out the little green books were rude or forceful with what they were doing.” They simply wish to bring a little light into the world by sharing that which they feel brings enlightenment.

Your allegation that the act of handing out Bibles forces students to be more disrespectful merely perpetuates the level of selfabsorbed small-mindedness which is the actual cause of such disrespect. All you have to say is, “No, thank you.” Sure, you may have to say it several times as you hurry toward the bus. If repeating a phrase five times is enough to drive you to act disrespectfully, I would like to turn your attention to the lovely new counseling facility which opened this semester on Senior Street. Stressed students are eligible for free therapy over there, and it seems you may need it if repeating the words “No, thank you” five times is enough to draw disrespect or impoliteness from your mouth.

Every faith teaches some variation of the Golden Rule: “Treat others as you want to be treated.

That which you do will come back to you three-fold. Love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

Whether it is based in religion or simple decency, basic politeness should be a natural instinct for civilized people. If you found something that made you happy, something that really got you excited, and you turned to show it to someone nearby, how would you feel if they reacted with annoyance and disrespect?

I will actually go a step further and propose that we should be more than just polite to these people. We should be grateful. They

are trying to share something that has great personal meaning in their lives, and whether or not we share their belief in that little book, we should be thankful they would offer to share it. They are trying to give us something they believe is a valuable gift, and they deserve thanks.

Reading your editorial caused me to reflect on the reaction of one of the women in my residence hall the day she received a Bible from those people. This particular woman has strong Christian leanings. As I passed her in the hall, she positively beamed with happiness, “I got a free Bible!” she exclaimed, and I felt happy for her. Perhaps it was due to her Christian leanings, but this woman felt she received a gift.

Perhaps a Wiccan would be less enthused to receive that particular gift. That is no excuse to act with disrespect and certainly no excuse to blame the gift-giver for your lack of appreciation. When your favorite aunt gives you socks for your birthday, do you tell her off? Do you react with disrespect, and blame her for that reaction? No. You smile politely and say “Thank you.” You appreciate her good intention. At least that is how we react in my family. I would hope you do not treat your poor dear hypothetical aunt so horribly.

Seriously, if things are that bad for you, head down to Senior Street and talk to the very polite, well-trained staff about your inability to appreciate the generous efforts of your fellow person.

Darts to you, dart-throwers, for your lack of appreciation for the little things in life.

Deirdre S. Hopton is a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

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NOTEBOOK: Rush defense falters against Lewis continued from back “I thought [senior cornerback] Devin McCourty played fantastic,” Schiano said. “He was on [Baldwin] a lot of the time and that’s as good of a receiver that there is out there.”

Instead, Pitt beat the Knights on the ground.

The RU rush defense, which averaged 65.2 yards allowed per game, surrendered 248 yards — without sacks — to the Panthers,

including 180 to Lewis on 31 carries.

Lewis repeatedly broke to the outside — isolated with a Rutgers defender —tasked only with making them miss.

Other times, he dove up the middle, spinning and dodging tacklers.

Once, he ran through the middle, evaded three tacklers and cut to the outside for a 58-yard touchdown run — part of the fourth time he broke the century mark in seven games.

“One thing I noticed on film and again today is he keeps his legs going, no matter what,” McCourty

Pittsburgh true freshman running back Dion Lewis chewed up the Rutgers defense to the tune of 180 yards on 31 carries.

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said. “We didn’t do as good of a job we needed with tackling and getting him down. Two times he just made something out of nothing, and that’s why he’s a good back.”

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Young made his most significant impact of the season since returning from a knee injury suffered in the PapaJohns.com Bowl.

“The whole season I’ve just been trying to get better, as much as I can,” Young said. “The coaches knew when I was ready, and they’ve been watching me as I’ve progressed. I think they had confidence in me.”

Young started the first play of the game, even though sophomore Joe Martinek was announced as the lone starter — not with sophomore Jourdan Brooks — for the first time.

Lining up in shotgun with three wideouts to the left, Young caught a screen pass to the right and took it 26 yards, following junior right guard Howard Barbieri after a block from freshman wideout Mohamed Sanu.

Young caught three passes for 32 yards and added nine yards on the ground, remaining in his role as the primary receiving back.

“I’ll take any role I can get, but it looks like that’s the way it’s going to be,” Young said.

Brooks, second on the team in rushing and touchdowns, did not see any game action.

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success on third downs.

The Panthers converted on their first four third down situations, throwing the ball three times while Stull scrambled once.

Pitt (6-1, 3-0) finished the game 10-of-17 on third down conversions and gained 117 yards — about one

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Junior Kordell Young remained in his role as the primary receiver out of the backfield, catching three passes for 32 yards against Pitt. third of their total offense. Stull threw the ball for 85 yards on third downs, scrambled for 27 yards and was sacked once.

“That is not like us [to struggle on third downs],” Schiano said.

“We got to [Stull] a few times and hit him, but he was still able to get the ball off. When we went straight four-man rush, he was able to scramble. That is not like us. We have to be able to get off the field on third down.”

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Knights escaped without any serious injuries.

Linebackers Ryan D’Imperio and Antonio Lowery both went

down during the game, but returned to the field.

“D’Imperio — I think he is going to be OK, he’s just hurting a little bit,” Schiano said. “Lowery is hurting a little bit. We’re a little bumped, but it was a physical game. Is it going to keep anybody out? I’m not sure, we’ll have to see as the week goes on.”

Sophomore right guard Desmond Wynn did not play because of an injury, and junior Howard Barbieri started in his place. Schiano said he expected Wynn to participate more this week, along with sophomore guard Caleb Ruch, who injured his leg against Howard.

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Rutgers football fans among worst in country Mind of Stein MATTHEW STEIN

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his is why you don’t leave football games early.

A missed field goal by Pittsburgh with just over two minutes remaining gave the Rutgers football team a chance to tie the game.

Too bad half the fans that even bothered to show up to Rutgers Stadium Friday night in the first place didn’t get to see what could have been true freshman quarterback Tom Savage’s defining moment as a Scarlet Knight.

“We didn’t play perfect, and [Pittsburgh] found some holes,” Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano said. “But this team fought to the very end.”

How’s this for a change: There was a very important football game on a Friday night in Piscataway. It was blistering cold, there was a steady rain and the Yankees and Phillies both happened to be playing playoff games on the same day.

Here’s the funny part.

The students showed up. The rest of the fans didn’t.

For once.

The official count of 50,296 tickets sold had to be inaccurate.

The actual attendance was probably more in the 35,000-range. For a game that marked a return to Big East play for a 4-1 team at

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Rutgers football fans stream toward the exits after the Scarlet Knights dropped a 24-17 decision to the Pittsburgh Panthers.

Rutgers Stadium was far below capacity for the Big East showdown. home on a Friday night, it just doesn’t make sense.

The students were their usual awful selves, with more than half not showing up until midway through the first quarter and a good amount, though less than usual, leaving shortly after halftime. I guess the fraternity parties opened their doors shortly after 11 p.m.

They continued to stay quiet when they should be on their feet and scream when they shouldn’t be, even starting an RU chant when the Knights were on offense.

They were mid-cheer when Savage threw the first interception of his college career!

But they were there. The “old guard,” as they liked to be known as, was not. Rows upon rows of empty benches littered the stadium despite tickets being nearly sold out for weeks for a primetime ESPN showdown that made RU look pathetic on national television.

It’s got to the point where people just don’t care anymore, and it’s disgusting since it’s just three seasons removed from the euphoric 2006 campaign.

It appears there has to be two stipulations for RU fans to show up to games: Good weather and a redhot team. One iota of mist and the yellow ponchos and off-color

umbrellas come out, and if the temperature drops below 60 degrees … well, we’re looking at an attendance figure that Terry Shea would be proud of fielding.

I walked through the student section in the second half against Florida International. One student was yelled at by a mother sitting with her two young children in the new south end zone because he yelled an expletive when RU was on defense.

Seriously.

First of all, the kid is supposed to yell when the Scarlet Knights are on defense — that’s how football works.

Secondly, if you don’t like the language going on at the game, don’t take your young children or don’t sit in the student section. You shouldn’t be there to begin with.

It has got to the point where students and paying ticket holders alike have forgotten why RU is a successful football program in the first place. After the first quar ter, where the “Knights in the NFL” montage comes on, there are only four players that get audible cheers anymore: Brian Leonard, Kenny Britt, Ray Rice and Shaun O’Hara, which is just because he plays on the New York Giants.

Cour tney Greene? Eric Foster? Tiquan Under wood?

Mike Teel? Jeremy Zuttah? All the above were on the 2006 team that won the Texas Bowl, the 2007 team that won the International Bowl and three were on last year’s team that won its third postseason game in a row.

All got a polite golf clap at best.

How soon we forget.

I’ve written one of these columns for three seasons in a row, and it never changes.

People continually fail to show up and show inexcusable support. My thought is still the same as it was in 2007.

RU fans are among the worst in the country.

— Matthew Stein accepts comments and criticisms at steinma@eden.rutgers.edu

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Two more shutouts mar weekend

BY BILL DOMKE CORRESPONDENT

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Freshman outside hitter Kylie Orr had an impressive weekend, notching 20 kills in two contests and leading the team Saturday in blocks.

Boisterous crowd runs tensions high in Barn

BY BILL DOMKE CORRESPONDENT

hard for a freshman to come in and have that big of a burden on her shoulders and I think she’s embraced it really well.”

To Orr, simply proving that she deserved her spot on the team amidst presence from two Big East juggernauts.

“I thought I played really well,” Orr said. “[I wanted to] show that I deserved to play as a freshmen. We played as a team, and we weren’t scared of Cincinatti [even though] they’re ranked really high.”

Saxton and Orr’s gameplay over the weekend was very impressive according to Werneke.

“Caitlyn’s been there all year,” head coach CJ Werneke said. “Kylie, she’s a work in progress and developing throughout the season and we need to figure out a way for her to sustain that high level of play she had [on Saturday].”

The Rutgers volleyball team’s match against Cincinnati Saturday was the loudest and most tense the Barn has seen so far this season.

Everyone at the match from the crowd to the players was in the opposition’s face.

At one point later in the match, crowd members began chanting names from Cincinnati’s team in an effort to throw them off, namely Bearcat Annie Fesl.

The crowd established its role as a “seventh man” as disheartening calls of “Annie” echoed through the College Ave gym whenever the junior started a serve. She contributed two of the team’s four serving errors.

Lindsey Upton of Cincinnati was “We teach our kids THE SCARLET issued a yellow card warning in when the ball is in Knights’ defense picked up from its the midst of the the plane of the tough start against second set for proon fanity, and the net, and the setter Cincinnati day one. crowd was even The team postcited for foul langoes up to get it, ed up 37 digs on guage during the break their fingers.” Sunday – ten second set by the more than its total officials.

CJ WERNEKE the previous day.

“That kind of Head Coach Jamie Godfrey just happens in volnotched 17 of her leyball and you have to learn not to focus on that,” own.

“We competed, which is the junior outside hitter Caitlin Saxton said. “I thought we were goal we’re tying to get at,” the sengoing to pull [the second set] out. ior libero said, “to compete in every …The whole match I thought single game no matter who your there was never a point where we opponent is.”

Despite attacking errors and were like ‘wow we don’t have a some miscommunication on chance at all.’”

Even head coach CJ Werneke defense, the team pulled together was issued a warning early on in in its second game of the weekend the third set for arguing against a to play closer against Louisville.

“We made more aggressive referee’s call.

“It’s a judgment call,” Werneke errors than we have in the past,” said. I thought the ball was in the Godfrey said. “We might have made plane of the net. We teach our kids errors, but …everyone’s trying when the ball is in the plane of the something new, we’re just more net, and the setter goes up to get aggressive than we have been in it, break their fingers. Swing as our past games.” hard as you can.”

FRESHMAN SAXTON AND FRESHMAN outside hitter Kylie Orr played tough throughout the weekend, leading the team in kills with 26 and 20 on the weekend, respectively.

“I think Kylie had a really great weekend,” Saxton said. “It’s

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Stephanie Zielinski had very successful weekend, as well.

The Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. native racked up 17 assists against Cincinnati and a whopping 31 against Louisville, leading the team on both days.

Nobody said it was going to be easy.

The Rutgers volleyball team faced the tall task this weekend of taking on defending Big East season champion Cincinnati and 2008 Big East tournament champion Louisville.

The Scarlet Knights could not pull a win over either teams’ eyes this weekend — they fell 3-0 to both the Cardinals and the Bearcats.

But ask anyone on the team and the weekend was still a success. “[I am] very pleased with the weekend,” said head coach CJ Werneke. “We just told our kids that we’re narrowing the gap between the best in the Big East and us.”

RU fell behind early in the third set against Louisville and could not find its way back to a victory as the Cardinals took the first point and refused to return the lead for the duration of the set, taking their third set win 25-18.

The second and first sets were much closer for the Knights (8-13, 1-6); they broke the 20-point mark in each game, but fell 25-20 and 25-22 in the second and first matches.

Attacking errors contributed too much of Rutgers’ strife in every set. The team ended up recording 19 errors to Louisville’s nine.

“I don’t think we’re necessarily off the mark [in attacking],” sophomore outside hitter Caitlin Saxton said. “Obviously, they have a lot more size than we do. I think that when you have smaller hitters trying to hit against a bigger team, there’s always that margin of error that you’re going to miss some hits.”

But that margin turned out to be one of the main reasons for the team’s demise.

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Junior outside hitter Caitlin Saxton (10) led the team with 26 kills this weekend in two games vs. prominent Big East opponents.

The Cardinals applied a “bend but not break” policy in attacking, posting monstrous percentages of .471, .344 and .323 in the first, second and third sets. This intensity was matched early on by an attentive .361 posted by the Knights, but then trailed off in the second and third sets with percentages of .147 and .056, respectively.

Saturday was not much better for the Knights.

Against the Bearcats, RU fell in three consecutive sets of 25-16, 25-21 and 25-16.

“I was pretty pleased with our execution [on Saturday],” Werneke said. “What I told the team after the match was that we

don’t back down. We gave them our best shot and we didn’t play perfect, but when we played well we had a chance to win.”

The Scarlet Knights had more than a chance to win in the second set, switching leads with Cincinnati throughout the match.

After coming back from a fourpoint deficit to tie the game at 10, the Knights took their first lead of the second set and the game at 12-11.

Tension in the College Avenue Gym remained high the more down to the wire the match became.

Yet it didn’t seem that way in the first or third sets, when Cincinnati took wins with identical scores of 25-16.

FOLLIES: Running game nonexistent in loss to Pitt continued from back said. “That’s a good defensive line.

I don’t know what the sack total was but I felt that Tom had a lot of time to throw back there. They had three sacks and that’s not good, but that’s a very good front.”

The RU r unning game, despite the addition of Sanu as the Wildcat guy, struggled as well, totaling just 62 yards on 16 attempts before adding in sacks.

“Pitt had a great defensive line,” said senior center and team captain Ryan Blaszczyk. “It was just an overall great defense. We just went up there and we tried to be as tough as we could. I think we played up to the competition and we did a lot better.”

For the Panthers (6-1, 3-0), highly touted receiver Jonathan Baldwin was not a factor with just one catch, but freshman running back Dion Lewis carried Pittsburgh with 180 yards and two touchdowns.

Lewis’ 918 rushing yards this season leads the nation.

“This guy is special,” said Pittsburgh head coach Dave Wannstedt. “He is something else.

It is one thing running the ball and surprising people, and everybody in the stadium knows you have to run it and you are handing the ball off.

Rutgers is well-coached, they have good schemes.”

The RU offense showed resilience after failing to convert

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Rutgers freshman wideout Mohamed Sanu scored the game’s first touchdown while running out of the Wildcat formation. on McCourty’s gift when it quickSchiano said that Savage “grew ly drove down the field for a up tonight.” His touchdown score to cut the lead to 24-17 and marked the fourth of the season, give the team some semblance but the best learning moment of hope. came at the start of the second Savage, who finished the day 23- quarter when Pitt defensive back of-39 for 248 yards, found senior Dom DeCicco picked off a pass wideout Tim Brown open in the intended for Sanu. middle of the south end zone for a “I tried to put it behind me and 31-yard score. keep playing,” said Savage, who “We all played better,” said went 93 passes through four-plus Brown, who finished the game college games without committing with 96 receiving yards. “We just a turnover. “There were still three can’t let this be our downfall and quarters to play so I couldn’t let it continue working hard.” affect me.”

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Lang’s Senior Day goal topples Johnnies

BY KYLE FRANKO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

With temperatures close to freezing and an icy rain falling, t h e WOMEN’S SOCCER Rutgers women’s 0 soccer ST. JOHN’S 1 t e a m RUTGERS would take a win any way it could.

In the sixth minute, on Senior Day, it had to be senior midfielder Kristie Lang to score the game’s lone goal as the No. 10 Scarlet Knights held on to beat St. John’s 1-0 Saturday at Yurcak Field.

“It was awesome for me to have that moment on my Senior Day,” said Lang, who made her first start of the year Saturday. ‘[Assistant coach] Karina LeBlanc made a comment in the locker room and said ‘Who are you going to play for?’ and she picked out each one of the seniors. I thought to myself ‘We are going to play for the seniors,’ so it was very appropriate for me to score that goal.”

Lang found herself one-on-one with St. John’s goalkeeper Kristin Russell after a Red Storm giveaway allowed freshman forward

April Price to thread a ball through to Lang.

Russell denied Lang on her first attempt, but the rebound came right back to the East Brunswick product for her to tap the ball into an empty net.

“At first I was like ‘Oh man, I better finish this,’ then I got the rebound, and I was like ‘No now I really have to finish this.’ It was basically like ‘Don’t miss, don’t miss, don’t miss,’” Lang said.

“But it was awesome and it was a complete team effort, and that’s what this team is all about.”

Lang’s goal may have been the difference, but there were still some nervy moments for the Knights (12-2-3, 6-1-2) as St. John’s (11-4-1, 5-3-1) pushed forward in search of a second half equalizer.

But senior goalkeeper Erin Guthrie, the back line of seniors Jenifer Anzivino and Becky Wise, sophomore Julie Lancos and freshman Shannon Woeller kept St. John’s off the board despite getting outshot 11-9 by the Red Storm.

“Traditionally our back line has been organized, tough, good in the air, and they cover for each other,” said Rutgers head coach

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Senior Kristie Lang got her first start of the season on Senior Day and responded with the lone goal in Rutgers’ 1-0 win over St. John’s.

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Erin Guthrie kept a clean sheet for the 42nd time in her career on the Banks in the Knights’ 1-0 win over St. John’s on Senior Day. Glenn Crooks. “You saw some of those things today. We had people go down and block shots, cover for each other and be there if one got beat.”

Crooks credits Anzivino, one of his captains, for the organization of the back four.

“Jen is just magic back there,” the 10-year head coach said. “She’s so calm and has great distribution, but all four of them just played great back there [Satruday].”

With the win, RU has 20 points and has all but assured itself of a place in the Big East tournament.

“For Kristie Lang to score on Senior Day it was ver y appropriate,” Crooks said. “It was a critical match because St. John’s is a ver y good team and we had an idea that they could knock it around better than any team we’ve played before. They get you to chase the game, and instead of doing that, we pressed them when we

needed to instead of just running around.”

The Knights are one win away from matching their total number of wins during last year’s Sweet 16 run.

They still have two games to play, and with another deep NCAA run, they could break the schools all-time mark for victories of 16.

If they do, Crooks can thank his seniors for that.

“It means the world [to win on Senior Day],” Lang said.

“We star ted something here and we have a great core group here. It’s great to be able to finish our last home game off with a win.”

Well, maybe — the Knights would love to host an NCAA tournament game in a couple weeks.

“It’s really exciting to win our last regular season home game,” Wise said with a smile.

“Hopefully, we’ll be back here.”

Jones back from hospital, returns to sidelines

BY MATT SUGAM STAFF WRITER

Junior Ashley Jones was in attendance following her release from the hospital on Thursday. Jones displaced her tibia and fibula last KNIGHT Sunday NOTEBOOK against DePaul.

“She said she wanted to come for the seniors, which was huge,” Anzivino said. “You could tell she was still in so much pain, but she is really dedicated to this team and wanted to be here today.

“We want to win for her, we want to win for the other injured players and we want to win for ourselves, so it definitely gives us extra motivation.”

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season home game, six players took honors prior to the game for Senior Day for the Rutgers women’s soccer team.

Midfielders Jenifer Anzivino and Gina DeMaio, forwards Caycie Gusman and Kristie Lang, back Becky Wise and goalkeeper Erin Guthrie were those acknowledged.

Gusman and DeMaio hobbling out on crutches due to torn

ACLs when honored prior to the game sums up was a poignant reminder of the Knights’ injury filled season.

Gusman went down against Towson while DeMaio was hurt three games later against Arizona.

The seniors are two of six Knights to suffer injuries this year, five of which are season ending.

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John’s 21-5 all-time, Lang’s goal was the first in two years for RU. Last season, with RU ranked No. 15, the Red Storm won 1-0 at Belson Stadium in Queens.

In 2007 the teams played to a 0-0 draw.

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game RU fought through the elements. It was 46 degrees as it drizzled throughout the game.

“The field was a 100 times better than I expected with the amount of rain we had, so it really held up well,” Crooks said.

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Ray Rice continued his blistering tear, ripping the Minnesota Vikings defense apart.

Rice finished the game with 77 yards on the ground on 10 carries, including two rushing touchdowns. The ex-Scarlet Knight also hauled in 10 passes for 117 yards, with a long catch of 63 yards.

It was Rice’s third consecutive game of more than 100 yards from scrimmage, and fourth overall this season. Rice’s two touchdowns mark the second and third time the running back has found the end zone this year.

Despite his efforts, the Ravens dropped their third straight game, falling to the Vikings 33-31.

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THE RUTGERS MEN’S cross country team raced to a third place finish this weekend at the Leopard Invitational in Easton, Pa. The Scarlet Knights ran through snow, sleet and rain, but could not overcome first and second place-finishers Connecticut and Lehigh.

Graduate student Taylor Burmeister finished third overall at the event with a time of 26:11.80. Burmeister’s electric performance comes on the heels of a 15th place finish at last week’s Metropolitan Invitational.

Finishing right behind Burmeister was junior Nick Miehe, who placed fourth with a time of 26:18.40.

For full coverage of the weekend’s events, see tomorrow’s issue.

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sideline against the Red Storm after serving a one game suspension last Thursday versus Syracuse.

A violation of athletic department policy was cited for the suspension.

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he death of Connecticut starting cornerback Jasper Howard overshadowed UConn’s 38-25 victory over Louisville this weekend.

Howard was stabbed to death early Sunday morning at an oncampus dance during a fight.

The 20-year-old junior was airlifted to Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford where he died from his injuries.

“I know this,” said UConn head coach Randy Edsall in a press conference. “He loved UConn, he loved his teammates, he loved everything about this.”

Howard shone in the homecoming game only hours earlier, helping to force a fumble against the Cardinals.

The homicide was the first to occur on campus in more than 30 years, police said, but no suspects have been identified.

The team still plans to play Saturday against West Virginia and is planning to wear something to remember its lost teammate by, but the team will not practice until Tuesday.

“One of my sons has been taken away,” Edsall said.

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Injured forward Ashley Jones (11) was released from the hospital and the junior took part in Senior Day Saturday with her teammates.

FORMER RUTGERS women’s basketball player and WNBA star Cappie Pondexter was honored at halftime of Friday’s football game along with exKnight and Indianapolis Colt Gary Brackett.

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Dominating effort keeps Rutgers in contention

BY KYLE FRANKO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Ask any member of the Rutgers men’s soccer program how important the game against Cincinnati was and the answer is t h e MEN’S SOCCER same.

The CINCINNATI 0 Scarlet RUTGERS 3 Knights a n d Bearcats came into yesterday after noon’s game at Yurcak Field tied for the sixth and final Big East tournament spot, so to say three points was not mandator y would be an understatement.

Yet only one team played like it.

RU dominated from start to finish, and three-second half goals secured a 3-0 victory and three massive points in the Big East race.

“It was real big to get a couple goals and a win in the Big East,” said junior captain Yannick Salmon, who scored the Knights’ final two goals. “We were able to get a shutout too, and we haven’t had one in a real long time so it felt really good.”

Despite outshooting the Bearcats 13-4 in the first half, RU was not able to break the deadlock until the 48th minute when sophomore midfielder Robbie McLarney collected a loose ball 20 yards from the goal and fired a shot that took a deflection past Cincinnati goalkeeper Matt Williams.

“I was just in the right place at the right time to strike it,”

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Junior captain Yannick Salmon (6) delivered two second half goals to help the Scarlet Knights down Cincinnati and move ahead of the Bearcats for sixth place in the Big East Red Division. said McLarney, whose goal was his first of the year. “I felt like I was able to get things started, but I thought that was the best game we’ve played all year.

Everybody was passing the ball well and we were focused and tuned in.”

Getting that first goal was a huge boost for a team that had scored just once in its previous five games.

“It gets easier [after the first goal] because the other team puts its head down,” said sophomore Gaetano Panuccio, who played a

full 90 minutes for the first time this season. “We just kept pressing and didn’t sit back and that’s what allowed us to score those next two goals.”

Those next two goals — credit Salmon, who has developed a knack for scoring big goals this season.

“[Yannick] worked hard to get in the right position to score those goals,” said RU head coach Bob Reasso. “We were able to get him closer to [sophomore forward] Ibrahim Kamara [yesterday,] and once we moved him up towards the box he became very dangerous and scored two big goals.”

Reasso’s decision to play Salmon together with Kamara as strikers struck gold in the 72nd minute when Salmon got on the end of a flick from Kamara and coolly slotted the ball past Williams.

“It’s great,” Salmon said of his partnership with Kamara. “For whatever reason we work really well together and we’ve noticed that since the beginning of the year, and we’re just trying to do the same thing each game.”

Nine minutes later Salmon put the game to bed, tapping home the Knights’ third goal after sophomore defender Bryant Knibbs headed a corner back across the box.

For the Knights (6-7-0, 4-40), three points means they leap frog Cincinnati (8-7-0, 3-50) into the sixth and final Big East tournament spot from the Red Division.

“This was great momentum, because coming off five losses we really needed this,” Panuccio said. “This puts us back in a good position for the Big East and puts us very confident and positive for the games coming up against Louisville and South Florida. We need to win those games to get good positioning for the Big East and hopefully the NCAA’s.”

Win over undefeated Rider stops four-game skid

BY STEVEN WILLIAMSON SENIOR WRITER

EASTON, Pa. — Going from a shootout Saturday to a defensive battle FIELD HOCKEY yesterRIDER 2 day, the Rutgers RUTGERS 5 field hockey team was put to the test in every aspect over the weekend.

The Scarlet Knights bent but did not break, picking up a huge upset win against an undefeated Rider team 5-2 Saturday before falling to Lafayette yesterday on the road 2-0.

The high-scoring affair Saturday marked the first time the Knights scored five times in a game this year, but it was the defense that played the larger role in yesterday’s road contest.

“This was probably one of the best individual defensive games and team defensive games we’ve played all season, ever yone fought hard and we were really competitive,” said Rutgers head coach Liz Tchou.

While offense was an issue yesterday, there was plenty to be found in Saturday’s game against Rider.

The first loss for the Broncs marked the second win of the sea-

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Forward Jessika Hoh, center, was one of four Rutgers seniors to score against Rider. Hoh leads the Scarlet Knights with nine goals.

son for the Knights, who were determined to pick up another victory for their graduating seniors.

Behind a strong offensive outburst, the Knights controlled the game from the first half and did not relent until the final horn, scoring their final goal as time expired.

A goal by for ward Nicole Gentile was the highlight of the first half, as the sophomore made her first score of the season one to remember.

Standing on the baseline, Gentile fired a shot that inexplicably changed direction in front of the cage and wound into the back corner. But inexplicable or otherwise, it was just what the team needed.

After the game, Gentile could not explain how the ball went in either.

“It was mostly luck, but it really felt good,” Gentile said. “I’m glad I could help out the team and that it was able to help get us the win.”

But Saturday was an even bigger day for the Knights’ seniors, who scored four times.

RU picked up goals from senior for wards Jessika Hoh, Sarah Dunn and Brittany Bybel, as well as senior back Melissa Bowman, who rifled in the final score on a penalty corner as the horn sounded.

The Knights showed no signs of the team that has struggled with finishing opportunities all season, scoring their five goals on only nine shots against the Broncs (13-1).

“We just wanted to come out strong; even though we don’t have that many games left, we wanted to finish strong,” Bowman said. “It was really exciting for [Rider] to come in here with an undefeated record and for us to be able to play our game and get the win.”

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Senior forward Sarah Dunn scored her fourth goal of the season against Rider on a diving tip-in from the near side of the cage.

But the Knights were unable to carry their own momentum from Saturday’s game into yesterday.

The Leopard defense did not allow a shot by RU for the entire first half, and the Knights struggled to get into the offensive zone.

While the defense played close for the second half, officials awarded the Leopards a penalty stroke when a charging Vickie Lavell kicked the ball out of the circle but made contact with a Lafayette forward. Leopard forward Deanna DiCroce flicked a shot to the top of the cage for the goal, putting Lafayette (11-4) up by two.

Though freshman goalkeeper Lavell finished with five saves and the defense stymied Lafayette on five of six corner

opportunities, the Knights (214) were unable to finish the game on of fense, registering only two shots.

“I thought we could have done a better job without decisionmaking in regards to how we attack, but they did a great job of even stopping us from entering the circle,” Tchou said. “It was pretty intense in there.”

Still, the progression on defense marked a high point for a team that has been struggling to find consistency all year.

“We talked about last game and today we played consistent defense, and we haven’t done that consistently throughout the season,” said junior back Chelsey Schwab. “It was a really great effort all over the field.”

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FRIDAY NIGHT FOLLIES Panthers RB Lewis goes off for 180 yards as Scarlet Knights cannot ride aerial attack to Big East victory

BY SAM HELLMAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

With the Rutgers football team dangling on the brink of extinction two sepaFOOTBALL rate times in the second half, the Pittsburgh special teams unit gave the Scarlet Knights two breaths of life.

And they promptly wasted them.

Leading 24-17 with three minutes left, Pittsburgh blew its chance to ice the game and gave the Knights a golden opportunity to force overtime by missing a 30-yard field goal.

But a lost fumble by freshman wide receiver Mohamed Sanu at midfield was all it took for the Panthers to hold on 24-17 Friday night at Rutgers Stadium.

“We made mistakes tonight that cost us from winning the football game,” said Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano after his team dropped to 4-2 and 0-2 in the Big East. “Some of those were caused by our opponent because they’re very good. So now we have to go back to the drawing board and just keep working.”

Trailing 24-10 in the final minutes of the third quarter, senior cornerback Devin McCourty blocked a punt, giving the RU offense the ball on the Panther 39.

But the work-in-progress offensive line instantly let Pitt through for a 13-yard sack, and the Knights squandered their first chance at a comeback in the second half.

“We were better tonight than we’ve been,” Schiano said. “We’re just playing better competition. We made mistakes tonight that cost us from winning the football game.”

The offensive line didn’t just struggle on that play, however, as the unit allowed true freshman quarterback Tom Savage to eat dirt three more times.

“The line improved,” Savage said. “All of the sacks — again — were my fault. It’s getting frustrating for me because I say before the game that I’m just going to stay in there and … I don’t know. I just have a lot to work on.”

Despite the struggles, Schiano said the line improved, but unfortunately for RU, the competition was much improved as well.

“I thought we did better tonight than we have all season,” Schiano

GAME 6

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BIG EAST SCORES No. 8 Cincinnati No. 21 USF

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Despite throwing for 248 yards and a touchdown in his first start against a Big East opponent, true freshman quarterback Tom Savage was sacked three times and threw an interception. Multiple Rutgers miscues doomed the Scarlet Knights Friday night against Pittsburgh.

KEY STATS 34 17

Louisville Connecticut

25 38

Marshall West Virginia

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LEADERS PASSING TOM SAVAGE, RU 23-39, 248 YDS, 1 TD RUSHING DION LEWIS, PITT 31 CAR, 180 YDS, 2 TD RECEIVING TIM BROWN, RU 7 REC, 96 YDS, 1 TD

KNIGHT NOTEBOOK PITTSBURGH RUTGERS

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Total Yds 376 286

Pass 153 248

Rush 223 38

EXTRA POINT

The number of rushing yards for freshman wide receiver Mohamed Sanu in the Wildcat formation.

Sanu’s 29 yards on four attempts led the Scarlet Knights in rushing yards as Sanu and senior quarterback Jabu Lovelace split reps in similar Wildcat packages. Sanu played quarterback in high school for South Brunswick.

BY STEVEN MILLER CORRESPONDENT

Jonathan Baldwin was a cause for concern all week, but Pittsburgh freshman tailback Dion Lewis tore the Rutgers football team apart in the 24-17 Panther victory.

The Scarlet Knights’ defense shut down Baldwin, Pitt’s sophomore wideout, who was praised by RU head coach Greg Schiano and

compared to former Knight Kenny Britt.

Quarterback Bill Stull targeted Baldwin twice during the first half, but did not complete a pass either time.

Late in the fourth quarter, on a key third down, Baldwin pulled in his lone reception — an acrobatic grab on a ball that was high and behind him, good for 17 yards.

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