The Daily Targum 2009-10-22

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Not all entertainment is created equal. This week Inside Beat takes a look at the unwatchable, unwearable and unbearable, exposing the bad and the ugly.

Jack’s Mannequin, U. ‘Made For Each Other’ Before last night’s Jack’s Mannequin show at the College Avenue Gym, University Editor Sara Gretina sat down with the band’s lead vocalist and pianist Andrew McMahon to talk about his music, his inspirations and his future plans Sara Gretina: Let me start off by asking, how do you say your last name? I’ve heard lots of variations.

Andrew McMahon: ‘McMan.’ Like Ed McMahon. I might as well just make it ‘M-A-N’ but it’s my Irish heritage that gave me that one.

SG: Why not tell me a little about the “Dear Jack” DVD, EP and foundation. Which one came first; what inspired the others?

AM: The very beginning of it was a song called “Dear Jack,” which was the namesake of the band, and it was a song I wrote for a friend who was kind of going through a tough time. But he was also — completely coincidentally — a leukemia survivor. So I named the band after him and then when I was sick with the same thing, it was this bizarre — I don’t know if serendipitous is the word, considering — but it was definitely a weird, faded deal. I didn’t put the song out.

I’m putting it out with the “Dear Jack” EP that’s going to come out with the [“Dear Jack”] movie. But then when I started recovering and decided I would start a foundation, trying to give back for the sake for that I was here and well, it seemed

appropriate to call the foundation Dear Jack. When we started the documentary, that was kind of the working title throughout and it ended up making sense, so we stuck with it. This will probably be the last of anything named “Dear Jack” at this point, but that’s how it all came to be.

SG: You have a little tour going on right now. You have screenings, one tomorrow and then out in California.

AM: All the money from the screenings is going to the foundation as well. And some of my [merchandise] proceeds from this tour will also go back to the foundation.

SG: So what can people expect from the screenings? Will it just be a screening or will it be a show also?

AM: No, no. It’s just a screening, but I’m not actually sitting in the theaters watching the screenings. I thought it would awkward to be in the theater while, one, I’m watching me, and other people are watching me, and then turn around and see me. You know what I mean. It seemed inverted

ANGELICA BONUS/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

SEE MANNEQUIN ON PAGE 6

CORRESPONDENT

Gov. Jon S. Corzine attracted thousands this year, bringing famous political leaders like President Barack Obama and for-

mer President Bill Clinton into the state and University, but Republicans argue this glitz and glamour will not save him come Election Day. With the election just two weeks away, incumbent Corzine and

Jack’s Mannequin Guitarist Bobby Anderson, left, and Andrew McMahon, below, jam at the College Avenue Gym last night before a crowd of fans from the University and local community.

The 90-minute set featured songs from albums “The Glass Passenger” and “Everything in Transit.”

They performed “Walking By” from Something Corporate’s album “North,” McMahon’s old band.

ANGELICA BONUS/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Republicans confident despite Corzine endorsements

BY ARIEL NAGI

THURSDAY

Republican challenger Chris Christie are in a statistical dead heat, according to the Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll.

As of Tuesday, Corzine and Christie are tied at 39 percent, and independent candidate Chris

Daggett has suppor t from 14 percent of likely voters, according to the poll.

Rutgers University College Republican member Tali Rasis said

SEE REPUBLICANS ON PAGE 4

Campus Identity

Tight-knit community attracts students to Cook

BY ARIEL NAGI CORRESPONDENT

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At the Visitor Center grand opening on Busch campus yesterday, University President Richard L. McCormick and Vice President of Enrollment Management Courtney McAnuff cut the ribbon. Tours will be given at the center and offer University information for prospective students and families.

Next to a fenced-off area for horses stands a farm with a chicken coop, a barn and a pasture for cows.

This isn’t a scene from rural America — this is Cook campus.

Campus Dean Richard Ludescher said the campus establishes a strong sense of community values because of its size, location and exclusivity as the official campus for the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.

“There are not a lot of strangers on [Cook] campus because you’re either on campus because you live there or you go to class there … so you recognize people more likely

than you would, for example, maybe at Douglass or the College Avenue campus,” Ludescher said.

“So this kind of smaller community spirit gives people a sense of [what it is like] living [on Cook campus].”

Although any student can apply to live on Cook, most of the students living there are part of the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, and most of the buildings as well as classes are for the students of that school, he said.

Cook is a campus well known for its environmentally friendly atmosphere, but others emphasize that the campus is friendly overall,

SEE COOK ON PAGE 9

INDEX UNIVERSITY Amid suggestions from students that the Department of Transportation make changes to the B bus during the 20-minute class change, Jack Molenaar considers alternating the bus’ route.

SPORTS A pair of 34th minute goals by Ibrahim Kamara and Sam Archer boosted the Rutgers men’s soccer team over NJIT 2-1 last night at Yurcak Field.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

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B bus may see route changes

BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

COURTESY OF BRITTANY DESIDERIO

Brittany Desiderio, a School of Arts and Science junior, is pictured above in late September after winning the Sport Horse Nationals.

Over her lifelong career, Desiderio has won more than 100 titles.

U. student gallops into national championship

BY CIARA COPELL CONTRIBUTING WRITER

School of Arts and Sciences junior Brittany Desiderio rode her way to a national championship at the Sport Horse Nationals, taking home the national title in the Sport Horse Under Saddle Open.

As an amateur, she competed against 57 of the nation’s best riders, including professionals, at Nationals from Sept. 22 to 27, Desiderio said. “[We] go through a rigorous qualification process in order to get to nationals. Once at nationals, there are three elimination rounds,” she said. “The final round consists of the top 16 in the United States. From there, they choose the top 10 and lastly, the top two.”

Along with her national championship, Desiderio also came home from Spor t Horse Nationals with two Reser ve National Championships and 13 National Top Tens, Desiderio said.

But this is not her first successful run at nationals. With almost two decades of competing under her belt, she has won eight national championships, seven Reser ve National Championships and more than 100 National Top Tens in a wide range of events including western, side saddle and jumping, Desiderio said.

“I competed for the first time when I was four in the 10-andunder age group, and went to nationals for the first time at the age of six,” she said. “[Now] riding is second nature to me, like walking. Because of my experience, it makes handling things much easier: my ring positioning, the different gaits and what to do in bad situations. I don’t even have to think.

I just react.”

Peter Webster, a friend of the Desiderio family, said dedica-

tion is present in ever y aspect of her life.

“She is one of the most independent spirits I have ever met [and] one of the hardest-working women in what she does,” Webster said. “She works at the stables, she is also a full-time student, and she does so much for her family. She is just a 360 degree amazing woman.”

Riding is an event for the whole family. Brittany’s mother, Dana Desiderio, is her trainer and the two travel together all around the country every summer.

“People always say it is not a good idea to train your own child. In my situation, this was not the case,” Dana Desiderio said. “I think that is because as parents, we expect more from our children. I have been fortunate to have a daughter that is not only a good listener, but a hard worker.”

But the Desiderio women are not the only riders in the family; Brittany Desiderio is a fourthgeneration equestrian.

“Riding is in the Desiderio blood. My grandfather’s father boarded his horses at my grandmother’s parents’ farm 75 years ago,” Brittany Desiderio said.

Along with spending ever y summer traveling to competitions, Brittany Desiderio is constantly practicing, she said.

“I ride every day, as many horses as they put me on, and have done so consistently for as long as I can remember,” Brittany Desiderio said.

She said although equestrian takes up most of her time, she is very interested in ice hockey. She plays for the University team as well as the Bridgewater Wings Ice Hockey team.

Brittany Desiderio said she plans on attending law school after graduation and hopes to publish a book. While she does not intend on making a career out of horses, she will continue to ride as a hobby.

With only 20 minutes between periods to ship students across Busch and Livingston campuses, the B bus is saddled with a tricky task.

Department of Transportation Services Director Jack Molenaar said the department is looking at possibly having the B bus stop at only academic stops to make it more efficient.

“The B route would only serve the Beck [Hall] and Livingston Student Center stop on the Livingston campus and the Hill [Center] and Allison Road Classroom stops on the Busch campus,” Molenaar said.

He said the full round trip for the B bus takes 20 minutes. On an average weekday, the B bus is most crowded during the 1:20 p.m. class break, Molenaar said.

Tuesday is the biggest class day, and four buses were on the B route this past Tuesday.

School of Engineering firstyear student Michael Egan said he has “Expository Writing” in Beck Hall and needs to get to the ARC by 1:40 p.m. for a calculus class.

Egan said he walked to the Busch-Livingston Health Center stop from Beck Hall because the stop is the last one on Livingston and shaves off time from his trek.

He said he usually uses the Beck Hall stop on Tuesdays when buses are overcrowded.

Molenaar advised students to use the Beck Hall stop instead of the Health Center stop during weekday afternoons.

Egan said the 20-minute schlep is a minor inconvenience, noting that he has not missed calculus class but is frequently a few minutes late.

“Usually, I’m five minutes late but class hasn’t even really started until then. So I don’t really miss anything, so it doesn’t bother me at all,” Egan said.

By the time he realized how difficult it was to make his class on time, the add/drop period had already passed and Egan was stuck with the 20-minute window.

Widening the 20-minute window by 10 minutes would make taking consecutive classes on Busch and Livingston more attractive, he said.

Molenaar said any changes to class schedules are not under the purview of his department.

“What I do know is that the current staggered class schedule was implemented in fall of 2005 and that to widen that window would cause changes to all the schedules on all campuses,” Molenaar said.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Jamie Colon said she wonders why the B bus even travels on Route 18.

“I feel like it shouldn’t go on Route 18, it should just go straight to Busch on Davidson Road,” Colon said.

But Molenaar said the B route to Busch takes Route 18 in order to get to the academic stops as quickly as possible.

“On the way back, the last stop on Busch is the campus center, since Davidson Road is faster than going back down to Campus Drive than to Route 18 North. To use it in the direction would not be efficient at all,” Molenaar said.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Megan O’Brien suggested a B express bus that would go on Davidson Road instead of Route 18. Colon and O’Brien also discussed how having two different B bus routes might benefit students.

But Molenaar said any time Transportation Ser vices adds routes, it costs money.

“We have not seen this to be a problem, especially since the Busch campus has an H route, which goes in the opposite direction,” Molenaar said.

He said it was hard to tell how many students only have a 20minute window to get from class to class.

Busch campus resident Jesse Marvosa said he uses the B bus often and has three classes on Livingston. He said he does not have any classes where there are only 20 minutes to get from campus to campus.

“My schedule didn’t work out that way,” said Marvosa, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore.

He said it would be convenient if the B bus stopped at the student center first.

Molenaar said the B route used to stop at the Busch Campus Center first, then go around the whole campus.

“That was changed two years ago, based on a student government request from Livingston,” Molenaar said. “Students at the Busch Campus Center were using it to go to class in the ARC area of the campus instead of walking, and it was slowing down the route. That is why it uses Route 18 on the way to Busch now.”

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

U NIVERSITY

RUTGERS DAY LOOKS FOR NEW IDEAS, U. VOLUNTEERS It’s never too early to start planning for an event as large as Rutgers Day. The University is seeking volunteers and looking for new hands-on event ideas for the second annual Rutgers Day, which is set to take place on April 24, 2010, according to an e-mail from the School of Communication and Information.

The school is not only seeking news ideas that particularly pertain to its departments, but to other aspects of the University as well, according to the e-mail. Events should represent the dynamic programs around campus.

There are two submission periods for event ideas: Nov. 2-3 and Jan. 25 to Feb. 5, according to the e-mail.

Anyone who submits an idea by Nov. 13 will automatically be entered into a random drawing for either a 50 percent reduction for campus parking for 2010, a dinner for two at the Rutgers Club

located on the College Avenue campus or a football helmet signed by head football coach Greg Schiano, according to the e-mail.

Last year’s first-ever Rutgers Day was a success, according to the e-mail. The University connected with the New Jersey community through various events throughout the five campuses, ranging from cultural shows featuring live music and food, live band performances, games and more.

Rutgers Day is not only for students, staff and faculty, but is also largely geared toward state residents. It represents the best of what the University has to offer its community, according to the e-mail.

Volunteers and anyone with ideas for potential events can contact the School of Communication and Information at (732) 932-7500.

— Ariel Nagi

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REPUBLICANS: U.

in New Jersey for more than a decade, DeMarzo said.

“Normally, at this time, Democrats are up by 6 percent,” continued from front he said.

Patrick Murray, who manthis would not discourage stuages the Monmouth dents and other New Jersey University/Gannett New residents who plan to vote Jersey poll, said Christie was for Christie. in the lead during the summer, “[Corzine’s] approval ratbut people are beginning to ings are so low, he has to get become skeptical about his these celebrities ... but come ability to change the state.

Election Day, voters aren’t “Christie had a double-digit going to be looking at that,” lead in the summer that has said Rasis, a School of Arts and evaporated. People are not Sciences junior. “They’re going comfor table with Chris to be looking at his failed Christie,” Murray said. record. They’re going to be “Christie has not given people looking for someone who’s a specific reason to vote for actually going to fix the state.” him. That has opened up the College Republican member opportunity for Corzine’s negaJared Fusia said although he tive attacks to [take effect on understands that bringing voters’ opinions].”

Clinton to the University was a He said the poll results good way to encourage more could be related to the political students to vote, it is unfair figures Corzine brought into that Republicans are the state. still underrepresented.

“It looked like this summer “This is a college campus, Democrats were not going to and there’s a strong liberal vote at all in the race,” Murray base,” said Fusia, a School of said. “If Jon Corzine could conAr ts and Sciences junior. nect himself to Obama, it “There’s nothing dedicated to would bring out [more voters conser vatives. I think it’s a litand supporters].” tle unfair and biased, but that’s Eagleton Institute of the way it is.”

Politics Associate Director Rasis, along John Weingar t with other said the advantage “As students, C o l l e g e Corzine has is that Republicans, many people in Corzine has really protested the New Jersey event Tuesday screwed us over in a d m i r e evening but Democratic polititerms of higher also continued cians such to phone bank as Obama education.” and dedicate and Clinton.

TALI RASIS her time to the “This is the College Republican member Christie camadvantage that paign, regardCorzine has and is less of the thoutaking advantage sands that stood in line for of,” Weingar t said. “There are the rally. a number of prominent demoRasis said she does not cratic politicians admired in think the University is promotNew Jersey and there aren’t ing its views or leaving many [admired] Republican Republicans in the shadows by [leaders to represent] allowing these Democratic figChris Christie.” ures on campus. She said in Corzine may get more votes many ways, having a former by bringing leaders to the state, president on campus is positive but this will not make Christie for students, whether the forsuppor ters vote for Corzine mer president was a instead, Weingart said.

Republican or a Democrat.

“It’s not likely to convince “As students, Corzine has people who are voting for really screwed us over in Christie to vote for Corzine, terms of higher education,” but it convinces people to she said. “So, I think a lot of vote,” he said. students were here to see He said although Christie President Clinton. It was not brought former Republican about [representing] Corzine.” presidential candidate Mitt The governor has continualRomney and intends to bring ly lied to students and raised former New York City Mayor taxes and tuition when he Rudolph Giuliani to the state, promised to help higher educahe will not receive as much tion, Rasis said. recognition because these are “He’ll tell you one thing to not prominent, admired politiyour face, and he’ll do another cians by the state. thing,” she said.

Weingar t said the College Republican University has focused much of Treasurer Ben DeMarzo said its attention on Democratic for this reason, Corzine is tr yleaders this past year, but if the ing to gain the student vote Republican Par ty wanted to back by bringing in leaders bring leaders to represent whom students admire, like Christie on campus, they would Obama and Clinton. receive just as much support Having someone like from the University to organize Clinton at the event is a stratethe event. gy Corzine is using to under“I would assume that if the mine and hide his failures, Republicans wanted to [bring a DeMarzo said. political leader] into the “Right off the bat, you bring University, they would get [the] in national celebrities when same consideration the you’re unpopular,” said Democrats did,” he said.

DeMarzo, a Rutgers College Rasis said regardless of the senior. “He brought Clinton poll results, she is confident vothere to headline because he diders will make the decision that n’t want to be the headline.” works best for the state and for DeMarzo said he is satisfied higher education. with the poll results so far.

“Voters can look beyond the Some polls, such pollglitz and glam,” she said. “I ster.com, show Christie ahead have a lot of faith in the people by 0.4 percent. of New Jersey that come The polls have not had a Election Day, they will make Republican candidate in the lead the right choice.”

would allow rallies for Christie

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U NIVERSITY

Drew Lachey speaks on autism Former member of 98 Degrees Drew Lachey spoke to University students last night about autism awareness at the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus. Before the event, Daily Targum Staff Writer Matt Reed met with Lachey to discuss why he is raising awareness at the University and why it is pertinent to the nation.

Matt Reed: Why did you decide to raise awareness for autism?

Drew Lachey: In 1994, my mother adopted a little boy who, unbeknownst to her, ended up having autism. So it’s something me and my family deal with on an everyday basis. For me, raising awareness about autism is more of a way for me to try and help my mom. Obviously I don’t live at home — I’m a little bit old for that — but she goes through it every day. Every day is a challenge with new stresses and new realities setting in. So for me, trying to use what recognition I have to try and raise awareness is the least that I can do.

MR: How long have you been doing this for?

DL: I started getting involved with Autism Speaks about a year-and-a-half ago, attending events that they sponsor. I also just did “Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” on behalf of Autism Speaks. It’s just little things like that, trying to get the word out there. Every day the word gets out there more, and people are starting to realize what an epidemic it is.

MR: Why do you think autism gets so little notice?

DL: I think because, unlike a lot of the other diseases that get major funding — diabetes, cancer, leukemia, AIDS — autism isn’t deadly. You’re not faced with this mortality rate, but what I think people fail to understand is that this is truly an epidemic. One out of ever y 100 kids is diagnosed with autism [in the United States]. It’s rising at a huge rate. It really isn’t getting a lot of the attention, I think, because people can live with it, but we have to start looking at the quality of life, not only for the people who do have it but their families as well.

MR: Can you tell me anything about your personal experiences or your mother’s experiences with autism?

DL: Ever y day is a stor y. My brother Zac gets hyper-focused on one item in the grocer y store. It could be the most random thing in the world [like] a bowl of rice. He gets fixated on it. There’s no breaking his attention, and he’ll have a tantrum. He is 15 years old. A tantrum at 15 isn’t the same as when you have a two year old who wants candy. It’s not the same thing. He’s a young man. He’s almost 6 feet tall and 180 pounds. He’s the size of a man but has the capacity sometimes of a child. There’s also frustration in dealing with his triggers and social cues. He’s a high-functioning Asperger’s case, so his situations are different from ever ybody else, but the constant fr ustration that comes along with tr ying to raise somebody that has autism is a daily challenge for my mom. Is he going to be able to go to college? Is he going to be able to live on his own?

Is he going to be able t o

socially become capable enough to get a girlfriend and get married? So, you have to look past just raising an Asperger’s child to what’s their quality of life going to be like, and tr ying to set them up so they can have as close to a normal life as possible.

MR: Where else have you been speaking lately?

DL: I did a couple of speeches at different colleges. This is the first time I’ve spoken about autism. Normally my speaking engagements are more about following your dreams, inspirational motivational kinds of things. But honestly, this is a much more meaningful speech to me because I feel about getting the word out to people who are in a position to make a difference. This is the future generation of the politicians, doctors and teachers, so getting the word out and raising awareness now is really going to be key to fixing the problem down the road.

MR: Have you seen any positive stories throughout the past couple years in regards to more people getting involved with making positive strides in autism awareness?

DL: I remember when “Rain Man” came out, nobody knew what autism was. It was not as common, and I had never even heard of it. At that point, everybody thought if you had autism, you were rocking back and forth in your chair and you [had to] count toothpicks on the floor. That’s what people thought autism was, this kind of idiot savant thing.

I think people now have a different idea. There’s a better understanding of it. People have opinions about it. Some of them are completely off the wall and unfounded. Some of them are possible, like what causes it. Some people think it’s from vaccines and drinking out of plastic bottles. Whatever the idea is, people are at least talking about it now.

[The] government is making it a point to promote awareness. That’s in no small part due to the parents of kids with autism getting out there, getting the word out, raising awareness and forcing people to listen to them. So I think there have been dramatic strides in the past four or five years, but we have a long way to go.

MR: A lot of people are talking about the swine flu vaccine. Do you think there’s a link between increased vaccinations and the rise in autism?

DL: I have a 3-year-old, so every time it’s time for a new vaccination, we go straight to our doctor, who we trust very much. Every time you think something’s fine, there’s another report that says vaccines are causing [autism]. Honestly, if I said I had an opinion one way or the other, I would just be fueling the fire. I have no idea what causes it. I wish I did. I wish there was some sort of concrete evidence out there, but for every report that says this is what causes it, there are five that say it doesn’t.

So at this point it’s still too early to tell. That’s why we have to keep raising money and keep researching it and finding out what truly does cause it before we get down to one in every 50 kids, one in every 25 kids. Boys are five times more likely to get it than girls. I mean, why would that be? If it is vaccines, why would it affect boys more than girls?

There are lots of different triggers that make you q u e s t i o n whether or not that is the true cause. Hopefully we’ll find out soon.

MR: For the students who are reading this interview, what kind of action would you like them to take?

DL: For anybody, donating to an autism charity is hugely helpful. Autism Speaks is a great one; Easter Seals is another — there’s a ton of great charities out there. Also, when you’re voting and talking with others, keep this in mind. This isn’t something that’s going away.

If anything, this is getting worse — it’s compounding. It’s going to be something we are going to have to contend with for a long time to come. Also, stay educated on the signs of autism, so that when you have children, you are able to identify it early because that is a very crucial part of it.

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MANNEQUIN: McMahon works with Tommy Lee continued from front and weird. But I will come out and do a short Q&A with myself and the two filmmakers.

SG: What was it like to work with Tommy Lee on this?

AM: It was awesome. We were working together quite a bit while I was working on “[Everything in] Transit,” which is how Tommy [Lee] ended up factoring into the film and whatnot. Working with him on the music was — I want to say a dream come true — but I don’t even know if I had the forethought to dream that dream. When I was in second and third grade, Motley Crüe was all over MTV. And we loved it. It was great. When we realized we would need a narrator, obviously your instinct is to find someone who’s going to lend some sort of additional credibility to the project or an additional celebrity to peak people’s interest, so immediately — just because Tommy is already in so much of the footage that we were cataloguing — it was like ‘Dude, let’s get Tommy to do it.’ He’s got a big, deep voice, and it’s recognizable and he’s our friend. So he obliged us and came in. Did the voiceover for a day or two.

And it was great.

SG: So do you have plans to collaborate with anyone else in your music?

AM: Collaborations are something I’m always open to.

I started recording new music — just the beginning, hatching stages — put my toe in the water and see what’s coming next. I did a couple tracks with Steve Ferrone, who’s the drummer for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and he was in Duran Duran. He did drums with us on a couple of tracks, which was awesome. So on this next record, I’ll probably invite a handful of different people to join us in the studio and kind of provide us with their classic qualities that go into making those great records. So there’s some of that. I just recently collaborated with The Academy Is [and] put out a track with them for their record. It’s something I’m definitely starting to get into more and more.

SG: Is there anybody that you dream about collaborating with?

AM: Hmm, in truth, I think it would be awesome to step outside myself, outside my world, and collaborate with someone, like a pop artist. You know what I mean?

Write songs for somebody who’s doing something altogether different to kind of challenge myself. I mean obviously, I’m not going to get a gig writing for Madonna anytime soon or something like that, but I could see it being fun to kind of tap into that world.

U NIVERSITY SG: Why did you choose to come back to the University for a show last night?

AM: They asked us. I made a point probably since the second Something Corporate album broke. It became an effort of ours to play the colleges. When you go to an allages gig, it’s always going to be a certain kind of show.

When you open up for people in big venues, it’s always going to be a certain kind of show. To do the colleges for us is a good way for to inform people who actively listen to and trade music. It gives us a chance to play to those people and people who haven’t heard the music already. When you end up doing the college gig, it’s a more affordable show and it becomes a campus event, and in that sense, it gives us an opportunity to reach out to people who are online and talk a lot. And that’s good for our base.

SG: So what can students expect?

AM: [A] big a-- rock show! (laughs) The whole band will be here and we’ll be partying. Our goal when we go out to play shows is just to play well, to give a good, entertaining rock show, to give people a good rock concert. To try and conceptualize too far beyond that is a step away from what rock music is to begin with. You know? We don’t try to over-think it. Everyone just plugs in and hopefully people are dancing and having a good time, and it’s all said and done.

SG: What’s your favorite song to play?

AM: I hate to evade the question, but it sort of changes on a nightly basis depending on the crowd. I mean obviously playing the bigger songs is fun, because it’s the bigger moment in the set. Especially on a college campus, where [it’s]‘My friend’s a fan of the band and I can get in cheap, so I’ll go.’ There are a lot of people at these shows that aren’t as familiar with the band say as if we went and booked a proper show in the city and people bought tickets. Playing the bigger songs, songs like “Dark Blue,” “The Mixed Tape” and “Resolution,” you know the tunes that people have already here a lot of can be the sweetest moment in the sets cause people are most engaged.

SG: How did having leukemia and being sick affect your musical career?

AM: Career-wise, it’s sort of the stor y that haunts me. I can’t get away from it. And at some point that bothered but I think I’ve reconciled that in the sense that it is a part of what I’ve been through, so I accept it on some levels. As far as the music goes, like anything, it’s going to inform your perspective. On the last record, I tried to avoid it, and I realized that tr ying to avoid it altogether was counterintuitive to the way that I work, which is generally through autobiography and

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M through telling that stor y that’s going on. So I think if nothing else, it has definitely affected this period of my career, but it hasn’t changed my process. It changed my outlook — obviously to some extent — which will affect my art. But I think just as many things that have changed there are probably an equal amount of things that have stayed the same.

SG: Are there ways in general that your music is evolving? From your first album to your second, you jam a little more and there are more rock undertones in the second.

What would you say your music is moving toward now, in natural evolution?

AM: Yeah, yeah. I think from “Transit” into “The Glass Passenger” in the same sense in the Something Corporate world from “Leaving through the Window” into “North” there was a sort of similar evolution from one thing to the next. There was a very clean, simplistic pop approach to the first record. And, you know, I wear that hat almost every other record. And I like to wear that hat. But I think with “Passenger,” I was playing with a group of pro-musicians for two or three years leading up to the making of “Passenger” that it made me want to approach “Passenger” as a little bit more as an expression in the musicality within the songs themselves. How that’s going to affect the next thing? I’m not sure. I find myself scaling back a little bit and going into the studio with me and a producer and really kind of trying to hash the songs first, rather than trying to work out that most insane guitar while I’m also writing the tune. I think the next record in some ways will be a hybrid of the ideologies of record one and record two. Really focus on hashing the songs in a succinct way and then bring people in afterwards to close it up and apply that additional level of musicality.

SG: Do you have plans for a new album?

AM: Yeah. I’m making it right now. The perception of the way a lot of people make records is that they write songs for a couple months and record for a couple months, and the record’s done. I’ve always had this feeling that you should live the piece of art you are making. And there’s something to be said about having it be sort of a fluid thought, where you start with a song and you go in the studio and see where that song takes you and you see where the day [and the week] takes you. So I’ve started that idea; it could take a year — I don’t know how long it will take.

But I’m definitely having fun in the studio, having the heaviness of “Passenger” and the documentary and finally closing that chapter has been a very freeing way sort of way to make music again because I don’t have all that baggage to carry around any more. It’s been pleasant. (laughs) I’m thrilled actually.

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For this year’s “Make a Difference Day,” the Energy Service Corps is going into Newark homes to show residents how to save energy and money by making changes in each room of the house. Volunteers will also help residents seal up cracks around windows and doors, change old light bulbs to CFL bulbs and insulate hot water pipes. To participate, meet at 10 a.m. in Room 303 of the Rutgers-Newark Paul Robeson Campus Center.

Residence Life and the Residence Hall Association will be hosting the “Cook/Douglass Ninth Annual Monster Mash.”

The community service-based program acts as a safe trickor-treating alternative for children in the New Brunswick area. This will be the largest “Monster Mash” held by the University. The event will take place between 6 and 9 p.m. in the Cook/Douglass Recreational Center.

Please join us at the Center for Race and Ethnicity for a roundtable discussion titled “Governing Inequality: Race and the Challenge of American Federalism.” Experts from all University campuses will come together to explore American-style federalism and its relationship to inequality across various policy areas. Panelists include: Karen O’Neill (Human Ecology, R-NB); Heidi Swarts (Political Science, RNewark); G. Alan Tarr (Political Science, R-Camden); David Troutt (School of Law, R-Newark) and Lisa L. Miller (Political Science, R-NB). The event will take place at 12 p.m. at the Center for Race and Ethnicity, 191 College Ave. Lunch will be provided. The favor of an RSVP is requested if you plan to attend, so the appropriate amount of food can be provided.

The Unplugged Rutgers Board Game Club will be having its weekly meeting at 7 p.m. in Room 174 of the Busch Campus Center. Come by to meet new people, chow down on food and try some board games that you have never seen! We play everything from chess to Last Night on Earth, a zombie-survival horror game, so feel free to stop by!

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COOK: Campus accents friendly atmosphere, clubs continued from front with a tight-knit community like no other, Ludescher said.

The campus has several unique clubs that make it a very distinct one. For example, there is a farm on campus and a seeingeye puppy club called “The Seeing Eye,” where students raise puppies to aid the blind, he said. There are about 15 puppies on campus.

“They’re the only animals that live on campus in the [residential] halls … you see puppies with their handlers around campus on a regular basis,” Ludescher said.

“That’s another element that gives Cook a unique flavor.”

There are a number of clubs on Cook campus that pertain specifically to majors at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, ranging from animal science clubs, environmental science clubs, food science clubs and more, he said.

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences junior Nicole Peterson is involved in the Food Science Club on Cook campus. “[The Food Science Club] is really awesome because I’m able to meet people in my major; it really helped me with classes and knowing which classes to look out for and getting books from other students, and even just helping me with my other studies,” Peterson said.

She said the club also plans trips to chocolate shows and is planning to visit the Mars Candy factor y.

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Rosemar y Devine said although she does not have many classes on Cook, she chose to live in the Starkey Apartments because she did not like the crowded, city life atmosphere on College Avenue, where she lived her first year. “[Cook campus] is just the prettiest,” Devine said. “It gives off the best atmosphere … I lived on College Avenue and it was just really ugly.”

She said living on Cook campus feels more like a suburb, and she does not always feel like it is a part of New Brunswick because of its rural setting.

“I walk out of my apartment and there’s like a huge farm right there and I see horses ever y morning,” Devine said.

“It’s just awesome.”

She said the only problem she has with the campus is its proximity to the other campuses.

“It’s just kind of far,” Devine said.

Ludescher said the campus is also unique in that it is named after one of the most important historical figures at the University, George H. Cook. “[George H. Cook] is an extremely important person in the histor y of Rutgers University and arguably, in my opinion, the most important single individual in terms of his impact on the structure of the institution,” he said.

Members of the SEBS/Cook Council recently passed a motion to celebrate Cook’s birthday, Ludescher said. Although his birthday is in early January when most classes are not in session, the members decided to have a celebration honoring his birthday during the first week of the spring semester each year.

“It would be an event to celebrate his birthday, his importance to Rutgers and his importance to the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences,” he said.

STUDENTS, CITY RESIDENTS TO INCREASE LIGHTBULB EFFICENCY Volunteers will travel door-to-door throughout New Brunswick tomorrow in an effort to increase energy efficiency for this year’s Make A Difference Day. Students and local residents plan to distribute 300 compact fluorescent lightbulbs to community homes as a part of “Project Porchlight,” an endeavor set forth by New Jersey Public Interest Research Group’s Energy Service Corps, according to an NJPIRG press release.

A joint project of NJPIRG, the Service Corps works to improve energy efficiency by educating and engaging University students

and community members to make simple changes in the home to save both money and energy, according to the release.

“Community members will also be asked to pledge to do one energy saving action in their homes and will be informed about state and federal funding that they can apply for,” the release said.

Volunteers should plan to meet at 2 p.m. in Room 407 of the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue campus.

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EDITORIALS

Heartless eviction

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here are always stories about children getting lost in the system when it comes to foster care. The purpose of it is usually to take care of a child until they are able to be on their own, or their legal guardians can care for them again. So it does not seem right to send an innocent girl, with two loving guardians who want to take care of her, into this complicated government system. Residents at a 55-andolder living community in Largo, Fla., are perfectly at ease with it.

Kimberly Broffman, a 6-year-old girl, is facing eviction. She has been living with her grandparents, her legal guardians, since she was a baby because her mother lost custody due to a drug problem. The policy of the retirement community only allows residents 55 years old and up to live there. The homeowners’ association is expecting a ruling from a judge very soon to kick the child out. The debate about whether she has to be evicted or not has been going on for five years. By the time her grandparents accepted the fact that it would be best for them to move, the housing market was so bad they are finding it hard to sell their home. They are also lowering the price of their home significantly to try to get out of there faster. If an eviction notice does show up on their door, Kimberly will have to go into foster care until the house is sold.

This situation is absolutely infuriating, and it is hard to believe the residents of this housing community do not sympathize more with this little girl’s situation. It seems almost heartless to want to send her out into the foster care system and separate her from the only parents she has ever known. If the grandparents are planning on moving, they should let her stay there until they are able to find a new home elsewhere. There is no need for Kimberly’s life to be rearranged and have her forced into the foster care system. It is hard to believe a judge would even side with the residents, just because of a technicality in a living policy. How much of a disturbance is one 6-year-old? Her presence in the community cannot possibly be bothering that many people.

The residents should also consider the financial situation they are putting the Broffman family in. They are selling their home for a lot less than it is worth and may not be able to afford a nice home in a good neighborhood for Kimberly to live in. She deserves a safe environment and a good school district. She might not be able to get what she deserves because of the low price her grandparents are being forced to sell their home for. That also may compromise the well-being of the child.

The residents of this living community should stop being so selfish and really think about what they are putting this family through. There is no need for the Broffman family to be ripped apart. There is also no reason for Kimberly to go into foster care when her grandparents have been and want to be taking care of her. These residents need to think about what is best for this girl, instead of what a living policy says. Stop being heartless!

War on Fox News

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ox News Channel is known for its ridiculous commentators, like Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck, who pick on the White House and president non stop. As if the Obama administration did not have enough war on their hands — what with trying to figure out if more troops should be sent to Iraq and Afghanistan — they are now picking a fight with Fox News. This may not be their smartest decision, when freedom of the press can beat them in the end. There really is not anything they can do to stop the madness that is a Beck rant about the White House.

According to the Associated Press, President Barack Obama’s Communications Director Anita Dunn says it was Fox News, not the White House that picked a fight. Dunn said during a CNN interview last week, Fox News is like “a wing of the Republican Party,” which ignited one of the most unusual verbal volleys between a presidential administration and journalists since Vice President Spiro Agnew complained during the Nixon years about the “nattering nabobs of negativism.” Obama himself has reportedly said there is one station, Fox News, entirely devoted to attacking his administration. The station’s coverage of health care demonstrations over the summer, and former administration official Van Jones and the community activists ACORN clearly knocked the administration off stride. Dunn has complained that the station misrepresents what goes on in the White House, and the official White House blog, “Reality Check,” has said that Fox News flat out lies.

All this has done is given off the notion that the administration is thinskinned. When you are in the public eye — you cannot get more in the public eye than being the president of the United States — you are going to be criticized. Sometimes you have to suck it up and move along. That is not to say that the things that come out of the mouths of some of these commentators are not absolutely ridiculous. Beck’s rant about school children singing about Obama went on to say we might as well build gold statues and worship him, and he has said on numerous occasions that Obama has a “deep-seeded hatred towards white people.”

That kind of behavior is uncalled for, but it is what keeps the network up in ratings. Unfortunately, people are going to keep watching the station to hear what a commentator will say next about the White House. Viewers just have to remember to separate fact from opinion. If we do that, then there is no need for a fight between the administration and Fox News. Obama and his administration need to learn to take the punches. Yes, you are dealing with a lot but there are more concerns than what someone is saying about you “behind your back.” Fox News needs to remember that if they are going to try to be considered a legitimate news source then they should calm down with the ludicrous commentary and start reporting the facts. The whole situation seems like high school drama. Stop with the he said, she said and get back to what is important: informing people about the issues.

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bate also are thrown in there have a few heroes, one of by some food-Frankenstein whom is author Michael laborator y worker.

Pollan. He has written McDonald’s is even kind foodie books such as “The enough to tell you they are Botany of Desire” and “The made with liquid margarine, Omnivore’s Dilemma.” His instead of plain old butter. latest, “In Defense of Food: More of the same — and An Eater’s Manifesto,” is JOANNA CIRILLO worse — went into your about the industrial food innocent hash brown. industr y and how to eat How can you be a savvy foodie? Star t by healthier in the age of processed foods. He has a decoding all of these ingredients like you would general rule of thumb that states one should not eat a huge vocabular y word on the Graduate Record anything with more than five ingredients, or “if you Examination. Par tially-hydrogenated vegetable can’t say it, don’t eat it.” But Pollan has also been oil shows up in ever ything from peanut butter to caught by readers buying Coco Puffs cereal in the saltine crackers, and it will kill you slowly while grocery store, which has about 24 ingredients. If expanding your waistline and shrinking your the experts cannot avoid processed foods, how can ar teries. It is made from healthy vegetable oils we normal eaters be expected to do so? in liquid form, injecting some hydrogen into it With popular phrases thrown around like “govso it becomes solid and easier to cook with. ernment subsidized corn,” 100 percent natural Somewhere in that science experingredients and certified sustainiment, trans-fats pop up. A lot of able and organic ingredients, it is “When a friend negative spotlight has been easy to get overwhelmed and give on PHVO, and we as a up caring about what is in your food, pours that powdery shown society know it is bad, but do we as long as it is in your belly. But it is check if we are consuming it? possible and necessar y for confake sugar into Rarely. Do we ask restaurants sumers to be informed. It is espeher coffee, I am if they have it? Doubt it. So we cially important when it comes to eat it. what they eat, where it comes from always tempted When a friend pours that powand what in the world those long to reprimand.” der y fake sugar into her coffee, I ingredients lists mean. Can you picam always tempted to reprimand. ture hydrolyzed corn gluten or I have never researched studies riboflavin? Why would Nestlé put on fake sugar; it just intrinsically seems terrible. that in our Hot Pockets?

You know the words saccharin, aspartame and Take a normal college breakfast — well, let us all of their friends. Saccharin has been involved just say there is such a thing. Stopping at in countless studies, the results of which found it McDonald’s right before they stop ser ving causes cancer of the urinar y bladder of rodents, breakfast, you order the scrambled eggs. The as well as uterus, ovaries, skin, blood vessels name has one ingredient, and it appears to be and other organs. The National Cancer Institute just that — eggs that the nice McDonald’s workeven found it was associated with a higher risk of ers scrambled for you. It was a late night, so you bladder cancer. add in an order of the hash browns too, which Aspartame, which is in the same vein, has been seem to just be potatoes even though the grease linked to brain cancer, leukemias/lymphomas and makes the paper container quite window-like. breast cancer. The Food and Drug Administration Even though McDonald’s breakfast is obvioushave curiously deemed both saccharin and asparly not healthy by any means, when in the arc of tame as safe, after the diet-food industry prestime did scrambled eggs start to include things sured the U.S. and Canadian governments and the like pasteurized whole eggs with sodium acid World Health Organization to take saccharin off pyrophosphate, citric acid, monosodium phostheir lists of cancer-causing chemicals. The indusphate and nisin, which are the first ingredients. try acknowledges that saccharin causes bladder Hydrogenated cottonseed oil, soy lecithin cancer in male rats, but argues that those tumors (sounds like a dance-move), mono and diglycerides (sounds like chemistr y class), sodium benSEE CIRILLO ON PAGE 11 zoate (sounds like medicine) and potassium sor-

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Blood drive discrimination unfair Letter CYNTHIA DOUGLAS & LAURA FELTON

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ach year dozens of centers, departments and student organizations at the University come together to organize blood drives and other events that encourage students to donate blood and give back to the community. But some students are limited in the ways that they can contribute, with the Food and Drug Administration currently prohibiting men who have had sex with men from donating blood. More specifically, any man who has had sex with another man since 1977 — the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States — is

CIRILLO continued from page 10 are caused by a mechanism that would not occur in humans.

High-fructose corn syrup can be seen as the most prevalent of all processed ingredients and can

ruled out based on his risk for HIV and other diseases that may be transmitted by blood. Those diseases, of course, are tested for prior to transfusion, but this population continues to be deferred for blood donation in the United States. Though supporters argue that this precautionary measure can help decrease the risk of false negatives on HIV tests, the law contains no restrictions on many other high-risk sexual behaviors. Conceivably, a heterosexual person who has had unprotected sex with multiple partners can give blood while a man who engaged in protected sex with another man three decades ago will be barred from doing the same.

Clearly, this law is both redundant and inconsistent —

but above all it is discriminator y, isolating a community that should in no way threaten the practice of donating blood. For this reason, the Rutgers University Senate plans to vote on whether or not blood drives violate the University’s nondiscrimination policy Friday.

Unfortunately, the potential outcome of this vote is worrisome for a number of reasons. First of all, should the Senate acknowledge the discriminator y nature of this law, we would face the danger of having to ban blood drives from the University, as some schools around the countr y already have. Voting that the law is not discriminator y, though, would directly undermine the efforts of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and

questioning community at the University in our fight for equality, sending a ver y negative message to the University at large.

As we approach the 40th year of LGBT activism at the University this year and look back at all the accomplishments that have been made, we must realize that no good can come from this decision, and we cannot afford that setback.

So, what are our options? The University, after all, must abide by FDA laws when allowing blood drives to take place on campus.

But this does not mean that they must agree with the legal restriction itself. The Rutgers University Student Association will have a meeting today to offer a resolution based on that very idea, supporting the continuation of blood

drives on campus while opposing the discrimination sanctioned by current law. The meeting is planned for 7 p.m. in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus, and we urge all available students to attend and support their decision. Hopefully, student support will push the Senate to table this issue for the time being and consider the implications of simply voting “yes” or “no” in response to the question at hand.

now be found in everything from pickles to pasta sauce. Basically anything that can be made a little bit sweeter so our caveman taste buds like it more. As Michael Pollan says, “Do you know anyone who cooks with high-fructose corn syrup? It’s not an ingredient you’ll find in a home pantry. It’s a tool of food science.”

We as consumers must always be war y of the food industr y. For example, now that it is common knowledge about the ills of high-fructose cor n syr up, Coca-Cola and Snapple are marketing their products as ones with none of that, just all natural products.

OK, well they are just telling us

that other kinds of sugar are healthy, when that is not true either. This brings us back to Pollan’s point to avoid these chemical catastrophes — just eat and drink things you can picture in your head. HäagenDazs has even co-opted Pollan’s five ingredients idea, with their “Häagen Dazs five”

product. It is a step in the right direction, but we cannot live on ice cream alone, unfor tunately.

Cynthia Douglas is a Livingston College senior and Lauren Felton is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in English and sociology. They are executive board members for LLEGO, the Queer People of Color Union at the University.

Joanna Cirillo is a School of Ar ts and Sciences sophomore majoring in journalism and media studies. Her column “So Fresh So Green” runs on alternate Mondays.

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Pearls Before Swine

OCTOBER 22, 2009

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Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — Use your imagination. It's one of the best tools in the box. Polish the rough edges later.

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tonight. But he did get the gamewinner, so everything is OK.” NJIT (4-10-0, 1-0-0 ASC) nearly made things not “OK” in the second half when its best chance went wide in the 68th minute.

Alex Brito played a dangerous ball to the back post only to watch as Rahim Stennett scuffed his shot wide of an open net.

“We made it very, very hard work for ourselves tonight,” Reasso said. “But you have to credit NJIT; with three former Rutgers guys on the bench I kind of figured they’d be ready to play and we were lethargic in the first half and fell behind.”

But Archer, a player who has struggled to find his form, bailed them out.

“Sam scored a spectacular goal,” Reasso said. “He’s been sick and hasn’t been able to get on the field, but it looked like that goal ignited him. It was a tremendous strike and it was just what the team needed at that time.”

first-string running back,” Young said. “Even when Ray was here, I competed as if I was the starter.”

As for the Knights’ starting tailback position, Joe Martinek appears to be the guy — for now.

Four backs have received significant carries this season, but with 434 rushing yards, Martinek has nearly 200 yards more on the ground than any of his backfield batter y mates.

While the starting tailback role has continually fluctuated since Rice’s departure, Martinek is happy to have it.

“It feels great to start for this team, and it means a lot to me,” he said. “But you have to keep proving yourself to the coaches.”

Martinek has nine touchdowns in 13 collegiate games,

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into league play when they travel to Louisville for a Saturday night game.

The Cardinals (9-2-2, 5-2-1) lead the Big East Red Division with 16 points. RU is sixth with 12 points.

“It’s huge,” Kamara said of the importance to Saturday’s game. “We need all three points, and if we can win [Saturday] I guarantee we’re going to win the league because teams are going to lose points. The teams ahead of us are going to go on the road and play better schools, so Saturday is big for us.”

averaging more than five yards per carry as a Knight. His consistency, as well as his hard downhill running style, helps him emerge as one of the offense’s top weapons.

“We’ve got a great group of backs here, and we suppor t each other,” Mar tinek said.

“We are all competitive so you can’t stop working hard for even one day.”

Young’s greatest impact since his return from his latest knee surgery came in the 24-17 loss to Pittsburgh where he emerged as an offensive threat for the first time this season.

Young touched the ball five times — a season high — and went for 39 yards, including a 26yard reception on the first drive that helped set up freshman Mohamed Sanu’s Wildcat touchdown run.

“I’ve had to battle through a lot with the injuries,” Young said. “It feels great to be back in the mix.”

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Sophomore running back Joe Martinek has nine touchdowns in 13 collegiate games, averaging more than five yards per carry.

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Rutgers hunting for home game in tournament continued from back RU is not mathematically out of the race for first place, but a more likely scenario is that the Knights finish second, earning them a first round bye and a home game in the second round of the conference tournament.

Georgetown poses the biggest threat to that plan as the Hoyas sit just one point behind RU in the standings.

With only two games remaining in the regular season, if Georgetown loses one game and Rutgers wins one game, the Knights clinch second place.

That scenario seems even more plausible when you consider the matchups of Georgetown and Rutgers this weekend.

Georgetown plays DePaul this weekend and conference juggernaut Notre Dame — a team riding a 61-game unbeaten streak in the conference. RU plays Cincinnati this weekend and Louisville — two teams that combine for only three conference wins this season.

But, as usual, the Knights are not taking anything for granted.

“Playing away at Louisville … my sophomore year … was the hardest game I’ve ever played,” Guthrie said. “Just because of the atmosphere there, it’s a ver y tough environment to play in.

And Cincinnati is a great team. So we just have to work our butts off, and hopefully it will pay off for this weekend.”

Guthrie is this week’s Big East Goalkeeper of the Week after recording clean sheets against Syracuse and St. John’s last week. She is the anchor of a defense that has only allowed three goals in its last nine games. “[For] both of the games this weekend, I didn’t really have to

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Senior goaltender Erin Guthrie, above, and the Rutgers defense have shut out four of their previous five opponents. come up with any big-time saves,” Guthrie said. “So I get the credit for the Big East keeper of the week, but really that’s a defensive award.”

The RU defense, which also includes one of this week’s Big East honorable mentions, senior Jenifer Anzivino, have shut out four of their last five oppo-

nents. In 17 games this season, the Knights have only allowed seven goals.

“We control our own destiny,” Guthrie said. “We’ve had some great practices this week. But going away makes it a lot harder.

But I think that if we stay focused and work hard, I’m really confident that we’ll win both games.”

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Doubles teams lead way to ITA Regionals

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utgers women’s basketball head coach C. Vivian Stringer was named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania yesterday at Governor Edward G. Rendell’s residence in Harrisburg.

The accomplishments and contributions of Stringer and seven other distinguished professionals in their fields were honored.

Stringer, also recently inducted into the 2009 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, was the first coach — male or female — to lead three separate teams to the Final Four.

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The Rutgers tennis team faces its biggest competition yet of the fall TENNIS season Friday at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Championships.

The event culminates the fall season for the Scarlet Knights and serves as a barometer of where their skills are as a group.

The doubles teams of senior Katherine Arlak and sophomore Morgan Ivey, along with junior Amy Zhang and sophomore Jennifer Holzberg, qualified for doubles play, while Zhang and Holzberg individually qualified for the singles main draw as well.

This is the first time the Knights have had more than one player in the singles draw.

Being that this is her final year playing for the Knights, Arlak is grateful to have the opportunity

to participate in the event.

“I’m a senior and I really wanted to go this year, whether it was for doubles or singles, and I’m glad that I was able to make it,” she said.

If this fall has shown anything about the doubles team of Arlak and Ivey, sophomore Leonora Slatnick said it’s the duo’s ability for teamwork.

“They’re a really good team,” Slatnick said. “They’ve done well so far in the fall and they have

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went with the typical dark suit with a button-down shirt and tie to match, a few players strayed from the norm at the Big East media day at Madison Square Garden. Some made it work, others failed completely.

Villanova head coach Jay Wright tops the list in a black suit, vest and all, with blue pinstripes of varying widths lining the sides. Notre Dame guard Tory Jackson was a close second in his cream-toned suit, also with a vest, with a black dress shirt underneath.

Three players fill out the lower tier with different colored argyle sweaters that did not fit the look.

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The Rutgers doubles team of senior Katherine Arlak and sophomore Morgan Ivey, above, qualified for the ITA Regionals along with senior Amy Zhang and sophomore Jennifer Holzberg.

practiced well together, so I think they’re going to do well.”

Slatnick also sees the fall success of Holzberg and Zhang continuing into this weekend and saw Tuesday’s scrimmage against Columbia as a match that would further their development even more.

“I think it’s good because last year we didn’t really have a match close to Regionals, so it just kind of got us practicing against different players since we always play against each other in practice,” she said.

As for the meaning of this weekend, Arlak sees it as an individual accomplishment that each of the Knights have worked on all fall to achieve.

“Every match you play in the fall, every victory that you have, increases your chances of going,” she said.

But for her and the other RU players going to Regionals, they will have to work with each other to guarantee success.

“For Jennifer and Amy, they’re playing both singles and doubles, so they need to continue working together on the doubles court and working hard for singles,” Arlak said.

Regardless of how the four Knights do in this weekend’s event, she said the team looks forward to the competition and wishes her other teammates could also participate.

“We’re hoping to make it towards the end of the weekend at least, and I know the tournament ends on Tuesday but we have a lot of matches till then, so I’m just hoping we have as many victories as we can,” Arlak said. “It’s unfortunate that more people weren’t able to qualify.”

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FOOTBALL PRACTICE NOTEBOOK

K IVLEHAN

BY SAM HELLMAN ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Since he went down in the Rutgers football team’s first game against Cincinnati, sophomore Pat Kivlehan saw a pair of players fill in for him successfully at the safety position.

Now that Kivlehan is within sight of his return to the field, safety is one of the deepest positions for the Scarlet Knights.

EXPECTS TO PLAY VS .

“That’s the biggest thing the team needs is depth, and we definitely have the depth at safety,” Kivlehan said. “And from all of us to feed off each other and the competitiveness between us just makes everyone better.”

Head coach Greg Schiano said that Kivlehan’s leg injur y is nearly healed up and that the West Nyack, N.Y., native has a chance to play tomorrow against Army.

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Linebacker Ryan D’Imperio suffered a stinger against Pitt, but the team’s third leading tackler will play vs. the Black Knights.

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“I’ve been working out but I haven’t really been out practicing. I’m also tr ying to play [tomorrow] so it’s a little bit of both,” Kivlehan said. “It feels good [being back]. I’ve been out for a while and it’s just good to finally be a part of the team again and practice.”

He returned to practice Monday, returning to his old role as a reserve safety behind junior Joe Lefeged and senior Zaire Kitchen.

While Kivlehan sat on the sidelines, redshirt freshman Khaseem Greene emerged as a weapon for the Knights.

Greene now has 20 tackles and a sack to go along with a 32-yard pick against Howard, and tr ue freshman Duron Harmon — last year’s Gatorade State Player of the Year in Delaware — has five tackles.

“Being hurt is definitely a humbling experience,” Kivlehan said. “You star t to miss the game a lot and you take it for granted, but you just want to get back in there as fast as humanly possible.

“I’m good now. I definitely took all the precautions and all the time I needed. I wouldn’t be out here if I wasn’t ready.”

Being from New York, he is a little extra excited for tomorrow’s game, where more family members than usual will enter Michie Stadium in West Point, N.Y., to cheer him on.

“I’m from New York so I’ve been up to a couple of games

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After a leg injury against Cincinnati, sophomore Pat Kivlehan (47) is expected to return to the field tomorrow against Army. and played a couple of Pop Warner games up there,” he said. “My family will be there so that’s always exciting.”

Schiano said yesterday at practice that Kivlehan “should be OK” to go.

TRUE FRESHMAN quarterback Tom Savage takes the next step in his career tomorrow when he makes his first road start against Army.

Savage got some of the road experience Sept. 26 at Maryland, but did not play because of his concussion symptoms.

“We’ve had the [crowd] noise out here and our offense is kind of built for that anyway,” Schiano said. “Tom is a cool customer.

They do some things different schematically. They do some things different schematically and that’s more my concern.”

S ENIOR MIDDLE linebacker Ryan D’Imperio and sophomore guard Desmond Wynn “should be OK,” Schiano said, but sophomore Caleb Ruch will not play despite returning in some capacity to practice this week.

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here’s no better conference in the country than the Big East. Villanova and Connecticut both advanced to the Final Four while Louisville and Pittsburgh made Elite Eight runs.

The Wildcats and Panthers produced one of the tournament’s best games that ended with Scottie Reynolds’ end-to-end buzzer-beating floater.

“This is a league where you have to respect everybody,” said Villanova head coach Jay Wright during yesterday’s Big East Media Day at Madison Square Garden. “You can’t go through this league on talent alone, and one thing this team has is great leadership and toughness, and you have to have that every year to survive in this league.”

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That’s the myster y.

1. Villanova (30-8, 13-5) — The Wildcats are the preseason pick for the league title, and for good reason. They come off an NCAA tournament run that ended with a Final Four loss to eventual champs UNC. Reynolds tested the NBA waters before electing to return to the Main Line for his senior season. The Herndon, Va., native averaged 15.2 points per game.

“There’s no pressure at all,” Reynolds said in regards to being the conference’s preseason favorite. “We know there is going to be added pressure from the

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Villanova senior guard Scottie Reynolds returned to the Wildcats this offseason after testing NBA waters. The Herndon, Va., native averaged 15.2 points per game in leading Villanova to the Final Four.

media, but all we can control is us when we’re out on that floor.”

Wright, the reigning Big East Coach of the Year, also welcomes a top-10 recruiting class.

2. Connecticut (31-5, 153) — Jim Calhoun’s bunch loses three players that averaged in double figures, but the Huskies do return guard Jerome Dyson and all-around athlete Stanley Robinson.

Calhoun also needs a big year out of sophomore Kemba Walker, who averaged 8.9 points per

game as a freshman after injuries forced him into the lineup.

3. Louisville (31-6, 16-2) — Oh, Rick Pitino — scandalous allegations of extortion were not what the Cardinals head coach wanted to deal with in the offseason.

Louisville’s Jan. 2 visit to Kentucky should be quite the circus when Pitino and John Calipari match.

And by the way, replacing the scoring of NBA draftees Earl Clark and Terrence Williams

won’t be easy, but love him or hate him, Pitino gets the job done.

4. West Virginia (23-12, 108) — Picked to finish second in the preseason poll, the Mountaineers are good, but not ready to make the jump into the top two quite yet.

Head coach Bob Huggins has a heck of a tandem in Devin Ebanks, a sophomore who averaged 11.1 points per game and guard Da’Sean Butler, a first team All-Big East selection.

5. Georgetown (16-15, 711) — The Hoyas were a disap-

pointment last season. There’s no doubt about that — just seven Big East wins and a flameout in the first round of the NIT. DaJuan Summers is the only player who averaged in double figures that isn’t returning, and with center Greg Monroe a year older the Hoyas will return to the top of the conference.

6. Syracuse (28-10, 11-7) — Syracuse is what it is, and as long as Jim Boeheim is the coach the Orange will win around 20 games and be in the NCAA tournament conversation.

7. Seton Hall (17-15, 711) — It’s year four under head coach Bobby Gonzalez and the Pirates are primed to be the sleeper team that makes a run at the NCAA tournament.

SHU welcomes three additional transfers this year, something that will take some of the scoring load off do-everything guard Jeremy Hazell.

“We’re trying to turn a corner,” the outspoken Gonzalez said.

“There’s a buzz around the program. We have the best team we’ve had here in years and … I think we’re going to be a dangerous team come March.”

8. Notre Dame (21-15, 810) — Big East Preseason Player of the Year Luke Harangody leads a Fighting Irish team that underachieved last season, missing out on the NCAA tournament.

They did, however, reach the NIT semifinal before a loss to Penn St. ended their season.

Expect the Irish to be on the bubble again.

Pittsburgh comes in at number nine, followed by Cincinnati, Marquette, St. John’s, Providence, Rutgers, South Florida and DePaul.

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Replacing departed key to continuing national dominance

BY MATTHEW STEIN SPORTS EDITOR

NEW YORK — John Thompson III summed it up best.

“Last year was the greatest basketball MEN’S BASKETBALL conference ever,” the Georgetown coach said yesterday at Big East Media Day. Nine teams were ranked in the top 25 nationally at one point and three Big East teams earned No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament.

Both Connecticut and Villanova made the Final Four.

After graduating a large number of players to the NBA, many are looking at the upcoming season as a down year for the Big East. Those that coach in arguably the toughest conference in the country vehemently disagree.

“It’s a bad league now — we only have two teams ranked in the top 10,” West Virginia head coach Bob Huggins joked. “I think it’s unfair to compare anything to last year; last year was the best year in the history of college basketball.”

The biggest issue for typical top contenders such as Syracuse, Marquette, Louisville and Pittsburgh is replacing graduated leaders. Each squad lost multiple central players that will be hard to replace.

“It’s just a different year than last year. I called it a perfect storm, where so many teams last year had returning guys that could’ve gone in the draft and did-

n’t go, so you had a unique situation,” said Pittsburgh head coach Jamie Dixon. “This year I think is more a reflection of what conferences normally do.”

The Panthers lost their top three scorers and playmakers in DeJuan Blair, Levance Fields and Sam Young, and Marquette lost its backcourt trio of Jerel McNeal, Dominic James and Wesley Matthews.

“We knew at this time last year that those four seniors were [out of eligibility],” said Marquette head coach Buzz Williams. “We have a lot of new kids that have done a great job adjusting to our culture, and the ones that are returning have done a great job of showing the young players how to function.”

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awarded Villanova the favorite to win the conference this season. The Wildcats earned 10 of a potential 16 first-place votes, barely edging West Virginia for top honors.

The Mountaineers finished with a total of 215 points, just three behind Villanova. Connecticut, Louisville and Georgetown round out the top five, followed by Syracuse, Cincinnati, Notre Dame and Pittsburgh.

Rutgers is ranked 15th.

“It’s a different year. Names don’t change but players change, that’s the most important thing,” said Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin. “You have 16 coaches that are going to tell

you the players are the difference. When players change, the landscape of the conference is going to change.”

The coaches selected Notre Dame center Luke Harangody the Big East Preseason Player of the Year for the second straight season, only the second player in conference histor y — after Patrick Ewing — to earn the honor more than once.

“It’s a huge honor even though it’s preseason,” Harangody said. “I can’t take it for granted, and I know that I have to put the team on my shoulders for us to be successful.”

Cincinnati guard Deonta Vaughn, Georgetown center Greg Monroe, Marquette for ward Lazar Hayward, Villanova guard Scottie Reynolds and West Virginia forward Da’Sean Butler compile the Preseason All-Big East First Team.

“It’s just something I have to keep proving myself day in and day out,” Vaughn said. “I don’t really care too much about the rankings and where coaches put me, I just feel like a lot of coaches give me the respect of being one of the better guards in this league.”

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Rick Pitino, surrounded by outside media for the first time since his noted offseason troubles, was relatively comfortable and answered the questions thrown his way with ease — though he did have a grayer undertone to

BRENDAN MCINERNEY/ SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The Big East coaches awarded Luke Harangody (44) as the Big East Preseason Player of the Year for the second consecutive season.

his hair and looked pale from the recent stresses.

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its agreement to play the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden through 2016.

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“The Big East Conference has become as much a part of the landscape of New York City as the Statue of Liberty and The Empire State Building,” said Commissioner John Marinatto.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Two goals in same minute drop NJIT

BY KYLE FRANKO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

It took Sam Archer long enough to finally contribute this season.

The sophomore struck gold with his first MEN’S SOCCER goal of the NJIT 1 season 11 minutes RUTGERS 2 from halftime to help the Rutgers men’s soccer team erase an early deficit and knock off NJIT 2-1 last night at Yurcak Field.

“It felt good, and it was my first goal of the season and that really feels great,” Archer said. “You know, we lost five in a row and we finally won one last week, and now this one brings us back to .500 so it was a great win tonight.”

Trailing 1-0, the sophomore picked up a loose ball after NJIT was unable to deal with a cross and fired a 30-yard rocket into the top corner of the goal.

“When I connected I knew something good was going to happen,” Archer said. “I was just thinking to myself when the ball was coming to me ‘technique, technique,’ and I just connected really well and the ball ended up in the back of the net.”

The Scarlet Knights took the lead 19 seconds later when Archer got involved again. This time he flicked his header on for Ibrahim Kamara and the sophomore forward made no mistake placing his shot past goalkeeper Ryan Sutherland.

“We made a couple substitutions and were able to get two goals real

quick,” said Rutgers head coach Bob Reasso. “We really should have had a third and that would have put the game away.

Unfortunately, we didn’t do that and we didn’t manage the one goal lead good enough.

“You’re always concerned when you have a game sandwiched between two huge Big East games … give them credit, but we made very difficult work of it.”

The Knights (7-7-0, 4-4-0) came out lethargic and fell behind after 20 minutes. Jack McVey lobbed a ball into the Rutgers box and Osvaldo Perez beat his marker and tapped the ball past sophomore goalkeeper Alex Morgans.

“It’s a Wednesday game and we came out flat,” Kamara said. “We looked at the schedule and thought it was going to be an easy game all over the pitch, but it was hard and we fell behind and had to come back. Luckily, we were able to come back and win the game.”

RU controlled most of the possession and could have extended its lead one minute after halftime, when Kamara broke free on goal but looped his shot over the crossbar.

The North Brunswick product led the Knights with eight shots.

“If you ask Ibe I’m sure he will tell you he should have had four goals tonight,” Reasso said. “You always judge your players to the best of their abilities, and if you look at the one he scored and ones he missed he should have had three or four

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JENNIFER MIGUEL-HELLMAN/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sophomore Ibrahim Kamara (9) netted one of two goals for the Rutgers men’s soccer team in the 34th minute last night as the Scarlet Knights dispatched NJIT by a one-goal margin.

Road trip Healthy Young getting back into ’06 groove stands in way of RU, second place

BY TYLER DONOHUE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

BY CHRIS MELCHIORRE CORRESPONDENT

There are number of scenarios that could WOMEN’S SOCCER play out this weekRUTGERS AT end for CINCINNATI, the ninthFRIDAY, 7 P.M. ranked Rutgers women’s soccer team.

But the Scarlet Knights know one thing for certain: If they win both of their games, they’ll play at home in the Big East tournament.

“That would be amazing if we got to play one more home game,” said senior goalkeeper Erin Guthrie. “For some of my family members to be able to see me one other time would be really special. But it’s not always a given.”

The Knights (12-2-3, 6-1-2) have 20 Big East points, putting them just five away from No. 6 Notre Dame, the first place team in the Big East National Division.

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DAN BRACAGLIA/ MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

Junior tailback Kordell Young provided a spark with his 24-yard reception in the Scarlet Knights’ scoring drive to open Friday’s 24-17 loss to Pittsburgh.

In 2006, Rutgers tailback Kordell Young provided the turning point in the most meanFOOTBALL ingful game in Scarlet Knights’ football histor y. In a battle of unbeaten teams, the Knights trailed Louisville 24-7 late in the second quar ter. They were on the verge of being routed in front of a recordbreaking home crowd and making a quick return trip to national obscurity.

It was at that moment when quarterback Mike Teel found Young streaking across the middle in open space. The infrequently-used backup caught Teel’s pass and raced 39 yards into the Louisville red zone. On the next play, first-team tailback Ray Rice scored from 18 yards out to cut the Cardinals’ lead to 11 at the half.

The rest is history.

Three years and two knee surgeries removed from his breakout game against Louisville, Young is par t of an RU backfield that is full of intrigue.

He entered the 2007 season as Rice’s primary backup and potential heir-apparent. But midway through the Knights’ third game of the year, a home

matchup with Norfolk State, Young suffered a season-ending left knee injury.

After rebounding to lead the team in rushing yards last season, Young fell victim to yet another left knee injury in the Knights’ PapaJohns.com Bowl win.

Faced with another surgery and further rehab, it was decision time for Young.

Would he attempt yet another comeback from a devastating injury or was it time to cut his football career short?

“Coach [Greg] Schiano told me to think everything through and do what was best for me,” Young said. “The surgeries were tough, but I decided I was willing to fight through the pain.”

He worked his way back once more, missing spring practice and this season’s first few games in the process.

Since his return to the field, Young has stepped into the role of third-down tailback.

The task predominately required him to pick up the defensive pass rush and protect quarterback Tom Savage, while occasionally getting touches on the ground and through the air.

“I will always prepare as though I’m the star ter, whether I’m the fifth-string or

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