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While giving birth, women prisoners are shackled to their beds in the majority of states, including New Jersey. This is an example of the federal justice system’s lack of empathy that Piper Kerman believes has counterproductive and harmful consequences. Kerman authored The New York Times Best Seller, “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” which Netflix adapted into a critically acclaimed original series. Valerie Anderson, executive director of the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College invited Kerman to speak yesterday in Trayes Hall on Douglass campus for the annual L’Hommedieu Lecture. Each year, the lecture series brings a distinguished individual to campus with the purpose of enriching the lives of women. When Kerman graduated from Smith College in 1992, she had many opportunities but little direction. She involved herself in a relationship with a woman who worked with narcotics trafficking, and in time, Kerman’s partner convinced her to smuggle drug money from Chicago to Brussels. Once she realized her partner did not value their relationship, Kerman broke ties with her and put the past behind. Yet five years later, federal agents knocked on the door of her new apartment in New York City to tell her that she had been indicted in federal court in Chicago and if she did not comply, they would take her into custody. Scared, Kerman quickly pleaded guilty. Because of a strange legal delay, she waited six years until the government placed her in the Danbury Minimum Security Prison in Danbury, Conn. for 11 months and later the Municipal Correctional Center in Chicago for two months. For Kerman, this experience was indelible, driving her to write the memoir. She aimed to give readers a more complete and complex picture of who is in prison in this country, what happens to them there and foremost, what put them there in the first place. “My greatest hope was that people would be able to come away from the book and be able to imagine what it would be like for them if they were incarcerated or perhaps to stand in my shoes or stand in the shoes of one of the other women,” she said. The title of her memoir is not just a tongue-in-cheek jab at the fashion joke — it refers to the 800 percent increase in the incarceration of women since the 1980s. Although men account for more than 90 percent of the prison population, men, by contrast, are being incarcerated at a 400 percent increase. Kerman blames these increases on policies enforced by the war on drugs ongoing since the 1980s, and because of this, hundreds of thousands of people are being incarcerated that would not have been a generation ago. See SYSTEMS on Page 5
Pollers, such as the Rutgers Eagleton Poll, typically use landlines and cell phones to reach people. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SHIRLEY YU / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Newspapers and websites around election time are typically inundated with political polls depicting public opinion about the candidates and debating the projected winner. David Redlawsk, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, said a complicated process happens before the statistics hit the printers and computer screens. The Rutgers Eagleton Poll, founded in 1971, is the oldest statewide academic survey in the country, said Redlawsk, a professor in the Department of Political Science. The first thing a poller must do is identify the target population of the poll, Redlawsk said. “Let’s say for example, we want to talk about the election coming up in New Jersey, it wouldn’t do us any good to talk to people in Pennsylvania,” Redlawsk said. “It also doesn’t do us any good to talk to people who live in New Jersey but aren’t registered voters.” Redlawsk said political polls require a random sample of regis-
tered voters, which is fairly simple to get because companies sell random samples of registered voters. In polls not centered around which candidate voters prefer, Redlawsk said accurate results require a random sample of adults, not only registered voters. He said a poll about how Hurricane Sandy affected different people would require speaking with a random sample of the population at large. “You don’t need to be a registered voter to be affected by Hurricane Sandy,” Redlawsk said. “So consequently there are no lists where we can get a random sample of adults, but what we can get is a random sample of telephone numbers.” A random sample of telephone numbers could be obtained through random digit dialing, he said. “Everybody that has a telephone can have a known chance to be included in a random-digit dial sample,” he said. “We call landlines and cell phones, so if you have either — and nearly everybody does See POLLS on Page 4
Rutgers paper program awaits renewal from RHA By Katie Park Contributing Writer
In residence halls across all the Rutgers-New Brunswick campuses, a wire rack close to the entrance holds copies of USA Today, The New York Times and The Star-Ledger. The Collegiate Readership Program distributes thousands of copies of these newspapers per day at Rutgers, said Joan Carbone, associate vice president of Student Af fairs in Residence Life.
USA Today initiated the program 10 years ago, although students living in on-campus housing approved the idea, she said. Carbone said the contracts for the Collegiate Readership Program run on a two- to three-year timespan. The program has been renewed four to five times since first arriving at Rutgers. Students provide funding to supply the newspapers on each campus everyday, she said. Each student is billed a maximum of $10 See program on Page 5
JERSEY ROOTS Top: Designer Marc Ecko, who attended The Collegiate Readership program is currently off-contract and is running on a month-to-month basis until the Residence Hall Association approves or rejects it. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Rutgers, dropped by Barnes & Noble at Rutgers yesterday to discuss his book, ‘Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out.’ Bottom: Jacob Winkler, a Rutgers alumnus, attended the book signing. For more about Ecko, read The Daily Targum’s story titled ‘Marc Ecko talks inspiration, art,’ online. DAPHNE ALVA
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CAMPUS CALENDAR Wednesday, Oct. 30 University Career Services hosts a graduate and professional school fair. The event takes place in the Rutgers Student Center on the College Avenue Campus from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. The Energy Cafe will be held in the Busch Campus Center in the Cove. Energy leaders from across the University will talk about the New Jersey Offshore Wind Project and the development of energy technologies at 8:45 to 9:45 a.m. Coffee and a light breakfast will be offered. The Graduate School of Education’s South Africa Initiative presents a lecture by Barry Gilder, “Voices and Secrets: Looking inside the AntiApartheid Movement in South Africa.” The lecture is in the Beck Hall auditorium on Livingston Campus.
Thursday, Oct. 31
The Department of Landscape Architecture hosts a lecture by Margie Ruddick, the 2013 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award Winner for Landscape Architecture. The lecture will take place in Multipurpose Room C in the Busch Campus Center from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research, at 116 College Ave., presents “Getting Started with RefWorks,” the citation tool available through Rutgers Libraries, from 9:45 to 11:15 a.m.
Friday, Nov. 1
The Department of Food Sciences hosts a talk about the effects of antioxidant interactions at the Food Sciences Building on Cook Campus at 3 p.m. The Rutgers Energy Institute and the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy present “Hurricanes, Power Systems and Climate Change” at the Marine Sciences Building on Cook Campus at 10:30 to 11:45 a.m.
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Google CIO sheds light on leadership, management By Vaishali Gauba Correspondent
Ben Fried, the Chief Information Officer of Google, wakes up every morning filled with excitement for what his team of more than 1,200 employees aims to do for the day and with a drive to apply his knowledge to his best potential. Fried, who was not representing Google during his speech, came as a guest speaker to the Rutgers Labor Education Center on Douglass campus yesterday to shed light on the essence of leadership and management, as a part of “Leadership and Work Organization,” a class taught by Rebecca Givan, assistant professor of labor studies. Fried, who started working at Google in May 2008 after 13 years with Morgan Stanley, commenced the lecture by defining to the audience the tasks of a CIO. As CIO, he oversees a team of personnel for Google products ranging from search engines to software to smart phones, Fried said. The team also takes charge of acquisitions the company undertakes and helps the company comply with regulations. Fried said he faced some challenges during his journey from Morgan Stanley to Google. While he had become a known and trusted face after working a long time at the former, he was a new figure at Google, which also had a unique organizational culture.
Fried then spoke about how to overcome challenges and become a true leader and manager. “Things that make you a high achiever in some roles may not necessarily make you a high achiever in a different, more challenging role,” he said. “But you have to be clinical about why something didn’t work out and then move on.” He has always believed that charisma and leadership may not necessarily occur in pairs. Not all leaders might be charismatic, Fried said, but they can still lead because they possess other qualities required to become a leader. “Charisma and leadership are two separate things,” he said. “There are great leaders with little charisma and charismatic leaders who shouldn’t be leading.” Givan asked if leadership was an inherent quality visible right from the beginning, such as during playtime as a child. Fried said while leadership and extroversion are easily confused, leaders must be able to express their opinions in a strong and coherent manner. “When I was a kid, I wanted someone else to lead, and I wanted to help,” Fried said. “But it was always important for me to speak my mind and my opinions clearly.” Observation of his managers’ leadership style helped him gain a lot of management experience, Fried said. Morgan Stanley and Google gave him interesting opportunities to see different styles.
ONE YEAR LATER The Museum of the City of New York is displaying a 200-photograph exhibit, chosen from about 10,000 submissions, depicting the damage done since Hurricane Sandy for its one-year anniversary. The exhibit will be on display from Oct. 29 to March 2, 2014. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Ben Fried, Google CIO, talked about leadership and management yesterday at the Rutgers Labor Education Center on Douglass campus. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER “From a manager I had for a very long time at Morgan Stanley, I learned how to lead — how to connect with experts,” he said. “My first boss at Google was a guy who led some of the most amazing innovations, [who was] also very down to earth and modest. That was really inspiring.” With rapidly expanding technology will come many challenges that require the employees to expand their skills, Fried said. Anyone looking for a job in the
technology field has to be prepared to renew their skills from time to time. Google has reached an amazing place, which is hard to reach even for large companies, he said. The remarkable thing about Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the founders of Google, was that they hired highly skilled people even when they were starting the company. Fried said his goal is to work in such a manner that he can create incredible replacements for him-
self and make sure his employees can coherently connect with the entire organization. Neha Khurana, a School of Management and Labor Relations graduate student, said Fried deeply inspired her, because he not only balanced every sphere of his life, but was also modest and down-to-earth. “I learned that no matter how far you get in life, you should always be clear about who you are and what you expect of others,” Khurana said.
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— you have a chance to be called by our service.” Rutgers is an established institution, so Redlawsk said it does not need to do polls to establish its reputation, but many institutions do polling to maintain public relations. “A big par t of it though, for a lot of places, has been the public relations aspect,” Redlawsk said. “You do a poll, you get it published, and the media talks about it and they name your institution.” Quinnipiac University is one such institution, he said. The small liberal arts college has a national profile because it opened a polling center. The next step in polling is writing survey questions, which Redlawsk said is an art and a science. He said an important thing to remember is surveys cannot ask questions in the same order on every copy of the survey. “For example, if we always asked [about] President [Barack] Obama first and Gov. [Chris] Christie second, people’s opinions about Obama may influence their opinions about Christie,” Redlawsk said. “Even if they don’t think about it, it may happen by association.” One example would be asking questions about recovery from Hurricane Sandy and following with, “do you think Christie is doing a good or bad job?” He said the way people responded to the questions about Sandy could influence their opinions on Christie’s effectiveness as governor. If done correctly, Redlawsk said polling is the best estimate of the attitudes of the surveyed population. He said academic institution polling has grown tremendously in the past few decades, but the past 10 to 20 years have experienced a real explosion in polling because institutions want to better serve the public. Eagleton provides a service to the people when it provides an understanding of public opinions, he said. Redlawsk said polling might affect elections, because if some-
one reads a poll and sees their candidate is in the lead, they might be excited and therefore more likely to vote. “Alternatively, if they learn their candidate is ahead they might say, ‘well we’re okay, I don’t need to bother going out voting,’” he said. “You could see it working either way.” Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said the Institute was founded in 2005 as a public policy-oriented polling institute to make sure the public voice was part of policy debates in New Jersey. Since then, the institute has expanded to do national polling and help government agencies and nonprofit organizations with program evaluations, Murray said. Not only can polling af fect the way voters make decisions, but it can also af fect candidates, he said. “Sometimes an incumbent thinks they’re so far ahead, but they don’t do any polling, and they only find out that the race is closer than they’re expecting when a public poll comes out and shows a tighter race,” he said. Tom Moran, editorial page editor at The Star-Ledger, said polling produces a psychological effect on voters. “It gives people confidence,” Moran said in an email. “If most people like Christie so much, they may feel, then it can’t be a crazy choice.” He said polling makes an undeniable impact in fundraising. “Special interest groups who want to exert influence on government are much more likely to donate to someone who they expect to win,” Moran said. Whether polls show that a candidate is going to win or lose directly influences whether special interest groups will donate their money to that candidate, he said. “In the governor’s race, several Democratic donors have told me they are not giving money to Barbara Buono, who is way behind in the polls, because the money would be wasted, and because they don’t want to make Christie mad,” Murray said.
ON THE STREETS Senator-elect Cory Booker went on a run
yesterday from the College Avenue Gymnasium to Thomas Sweet Ice Cream & Chocolate on Easton Avenue. He ran with supporters following him, alongside Democratic gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHHER
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per semester on their term bill, although students have not been required to pay close to the full amount for years. Each month, Rutgers pays for the papers that are taken, not how many papers are initially delivered, she said. In the last year, Rutgers paid $85,000 to supply papers to 16,000 students daily. Carbone said the contract cycle for the Collegiate Readership Program has currently ended, so Rutgers supplies the papers on a month-to-month basis. Students on campus will have to approve the operation of the program for it to continue. The Residence Hall Association is in the process of reapproving the program, she said. Despite the success of the program in prior years, she is not certain whether the program will receive the same amount of support this year. When the Collegiate Readership Program began at Rutgers, bus culture was a prominent part of the University, she said, and students used their time on the bus to read the paper they grabbed walking out of their residence halls. Bus culture, while still dominant, has merged with the use of
handheld technologies, such as smartphones and tablets. Because of the change in the way information is derived, Carbone said, students are not less likely to read the newspaper, but they are less likely to read the physical paper. “Maybe the newspaper has met its time,” she said. The program currently only caters to students living on campus, Carbone said. The Collegiate Readership Program is question-
“Maybe the newspaper has met its time.” JOAN CARBONE ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF STUDENT AFFAIRS
ing a possible extension to students living off-campus. Paul Kania, president of the Off-Campus Student Association at Rutgers, said although the idea is appealing, the implementation of the program poses challenges. Kania, a School of Engineering senior, said for off-campus students to access the newspapers, the reading racks would have to be placed in a location open to the public, such as student centers. Placing the racks in an open lo-
cation would undermine the thousands of students paying for the papers, since anybody could then take them for free, Carbone said. The OCSA will initiate negotiations with the Rutgers University Student Assembly and other student organizations to consider alternative ways to make papers available for off-campus students, Kania said. The proposal for the Collegiate Readership Program to apply to students living off-campus is not a recent issue. For a little less than a month in 2004, the program implemented a pilot trial of the program to off-campus students, according to a proposal submitted by the Rutgers College Governing Association. According to the proposal, during that time, students picked up approximately 1,650 copies of newspapers each day, with 95 percent of students stating that they would like access to the newspapers in multiple “on-campus locations,” excluding residence halls. If the program were to apply to off-campus students, they would pay $10 a semester to supply the cost of the papers, the same amount their on-campus counterparts would pay, according to the same proposal. Although the debate over whether the Collegiate Readership Program will expand to students living off-campus is still contentious, the option to keep the program in residence halls is a power vested in the students living there, Carbone said. “[Students] are the future of America, and they need to know what’s going on,” she said.
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Currently, two-thirds of the country’s 200,000 incarcerated women were charged with nonviolent crimes. Kerman believes that unquestionably, systematic racism and classism affect a woman’s treatment in the criminal justice system. Abuse is another common theme — more than 80 percent of incarcerated women Kerman has met had experienced some sort of physical or sexual abuse. Douglass College alumna Amy Rodriguez also attended the event, and said the oppressive environment of her hometown, Camden, N.J., led her to feeling hopeless and trapped. A former inmate, Rodriguez was about to graduate from Rutgers with honors because of support from the Mountainview Project. The project provides mentoring programs and alternative opportunities for at-risk youth and inmates. “It is only that I have access to these programs that I am standing here today,” she said. “Take with me the steps to make an education available and accessible to all formally incarcerated individuals with the desire and grit to do what me and many others have already done.” Although Rodriguez found the motivation to rise above selfdoubt, she is among a very select
and lucky few. Kerman believes that inmates can have success stories like Rodriguez’s if prisons refocus their attention to preserving their inmate’s dignity. “The other things that you master quickly ... [are] the rituals prisoners use to stay human in a situation and a setting that is designed to take away your humanity,” she said. Creative expression also helps give prisoners their humanity, and Kerman said prisons are increasingly introducing female and male inmates to the art of crocheting. “This sense that you have something to give, that you are productive, that you are creative, that you have something really positive to contribute — is something that prisoners struggle [with] and create themselves, because very rarely do correctional systems foster that kind of thing,” she said. With empathy, Kerman said the 700,000 people that return home from jail every year will be able to mesh more easily back into the community. “Those relationships with those women were the things that helped me confront my own responsibility, for my own sense of contribution to their negative situation and helped me take responsibility for my own actions,” she said.
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October 30, 2013
Competitive eating: More than a pre-game pastime
The Rutgers Homecoming game Saturday featured its annual Wing Bowl, where Eric Reitzel, not pictured, ate 25 wings in two minutes. Competitors were given a Rutgers bib, a bottle of water and an aluminum tray filled with chicken wings. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SHIRLEY YU / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
By Matt Mikolay Contributing Writer
Thousands of devoted fans gathered at High Point Solutions Stadium on Busch Campus Saturday to witness the Scarlet Knights face off against the University of Houston Cougars in the Rutgers Homecoming game. Unbeknownst to many, a more unusual competition took place just outside the stadium prior to the football game. The annual Rutgers Wing Bowl was held at the R Block Party in Athletes Glen outside High Point Solutions Stadium. The event gathered three participants — one from Highland Park, one from Manalapan and Rutgers alumnus Eric Reitzel from Ewing. Competitors were given a Rutgers bib, a bottle of water and an aluminum tray filled with chicken wings. Their mission was to consume the most wings possible in only two minutes. The clock started and the hungry contestants began digging into the trays of wings in front of them. It’s no surprise that Reitzel emerged the victor. While his two opponents ate their wings at a steady and conventional rate,
Reitzel distinguished himself with his speed and managed to inhale 25 wings. “I was just trying to go for the flat wings and just rip the meat right off of it as fast as possible,” Reitzel said. Reitzel, Class of ’94, has competed in past Rutgers Wing Bowl competitions. He discovered his ability to speedily consume chicken wings during his first year at Rutgers. Reitzel’s residence hall president in Clothier Hall held a wing-eating contest with dangerously hot “thermonuclear” wings from Cluck-U Chicken. Although Reitzel won the competition, it took three long hours before the burning sensations he felt in his mouth wore off. With only three competitors, the 2013 Rutgers Wing Bowl drew a very small crowd of spectators — likely a mixture of the participants’ family and friends along with a few curious passers-by. This scarcity of interest largely reflects the public’s attitude toward competitive eating. People generally do not perceive competitive eating as a sport. Many view eating contests as disgusting, offensive and ultimately repulsive. Nevertheless,
if competitive eating really is a sport, then the Rutgers Wing Bowl is the equivalent of a Little League baseball game. The World Series of competitive eating is the annual Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. This past Fourth of July, eater Joe Chestnut broke the world record at the Nathan’s competition, consuming 69 hot dogs in only 10 minutes. But Chestnut is not the only figure in competitive eating who has been making news recently. Matt Stonie, a 21-year-old competitive eater, downed 111 Twinkies in six minutes at the World Twinkie Eating Championship last Saturday in Tunica, Miss. Chestnut ate 121, winning the competition. On Oct. 12, female competitive eater Miki Sudo devoured 1.687 gallons of chili at Ben’s Chili Bowl World Chili Eating Championship in Washington, D.C., coming in third place after two men. Rutgers can even claim to have fostered its own big-time competitive eater — alumnus Jonathan “Super” Squibb. The three-time victor of Philadelphia’s annual Wing Bowl competition, Squibb, has repeatedly impressed his audience by consuming more than
200 wings in 30 minutes at each competition. His winning streak was broken in 2012 by Japanese competitive eating legend Takeru Kobayashi, who consumed a total of 337 wings. Squibb registered to participate in the 2013 Rutgers Wing Bowl, but was placed on the waiting list. Accomplishing such exceptional feasting feats is an enduring task. To better their performance in competition, professional competitive eaters push their bodies to the limit through rigorous training, just like any athlete would. Many dedicated competitive eaters stretch their stomachs to hold greater capacities of food by regularly drinking a gallon of milk or water in a single sitting. As stated in a Sept. 29, 2005 article by Brian Alexander of the Seattle Times, competitive eater Eric “Badlands” Booker claimed to have prepared for a wing eating competition by chewing up to five sticks of gum at a time to strengthen his jaw. Whether or not competitive eating is a sport, concerns regarding the effects of pushing gastric limits remains a controversial topic for the general public.
In an article by Richard Sine of WebMD, Milton Stokes, nutritionist and spokesman for the American Dietetic Association, denounced competitive eating. He believes eating contests could potentially spread attitudes of indifference toward the dangers of excessive food consumption. One would assume that overeating leads to weight gain, but surprisingly, many of the best competitive eaters remain slim and trim. The website of the competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi lists his weight as only 128 pounds — unexpected for a man with the ability to down 13 grilled cheese sandwiches in only 60 seconds. There’s much more to the world of competitive eating than just three men eating chicken wings out of metal trays before a Rutgers football game. Like traditional athletes, professional competitive eaters train to achieve higher goals and perform to the best of their ability. To many, the activity might seem unpleasant, but the truth remains — competitive eating has a serious side, beyond leisurely eating contests at county fairs and tailgating parties.
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IN BRIEF NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Prosecutors say a New Jersey street gang member has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of another man. Kevin Vauters also received a consecutive 16-year sentence yesterday for witness tampering. The 21-year-old New Brunswick resident was convicted last month of 11 counts, including felony murder and armed robber y. The charges stemmed from the Januar y 2012 slaying of 26-year-old Eugene Lockhar t in New Brunswick. Acting Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey said Vauters gave Lockhar t a gun to commit a robber y, but later shot him because he felt Lockhar t had not given him a fair share of the stolen money. Carey said Vauters lied to police while being questioned and eventually approached three witnesses, demanding they provide false information to police. One of the three was threatened.
TACKLING LANDFILLS Workers carry organic waste to make compost at the Temesi recycling plant Oct. 29, 2013 in Temesi Village, Gianyar, Bali, Indonesia. The Temesi Waste project uses an aerobic composting method to process up to 50 tons of waste per day. The project has become a model of how to tackle serious waste disposal issues across the country. GETTY IMAGES
IN REMEMBRANCE A six-minute silence is observed by miners and family members of the six coal miners killed by a gas leak in the Emilio del Valle well, part of the Santa Lucia coal mine, on the first of three days of mourning on Oct. 29, 2013 outside the town hall in Pola de Gordon, in Leon, Spain. A methane gas leak killed six coal miners yesterday, while five others were injured at a depth of around seven hundred meters. GETTY IMAGES
NEWARK, N.J. — Newark could soon be the next New Jersey city to require employers to of fer sick days. The City Council plans to hold an initial vote yesterday on an ordinance that would give all private employees the chance to earn paid sick time. If it passes, a final vote would be held in a few weeks. The measure would allow employees to earn one hour of sick time for ever y 30 hours worked. Businesses with 10 or more employees would have to grant 10 paid sick days, while those with less must give three paid days. Food ser vice, child care and medical workers are allowed five paid sick days, even if their company has fewer than nine employees. Jersey City is the only city in New Jersey to mandate sick days. HADDONFIELD, N.J. — Authorities say a Philadelphia man whose decomposed body was found in a wooded area in southern New Jersey had been stabbed 10 or 11 times, but that was not what killed him. The Camden County Prosecutor’s Of fice and Haddonfield police identified the man Tuesday as 26-year-old Reginald Glover. The death was suspicious, authorities said Monday afternoon when the body was found by joggers. But an autopsy conducted yesterday morning determined that the stab wounds had been treated and sutured five to 10 days before he died. Of ficials are waiting for toxicology repor ts to see if they explain his death. — The Associated Press
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Ban on religious songs is fair for all Undue attention on Christmas celebration exactly the point
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he Bordentown Regional School District Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and all other religious holiday has come under fire for it decision to ban songs that are available, then what “war” are they religious songs from winter concert perfor- actually waging? Christmas is arguably the most widely celebratmances in its elementary schools. And by “come under fire,” we mean by the conservative right. And ed religious — and even cultural — holiday in the by the conservative right, we mean those only con- world. The declaration that there is now a “war on Christmas” in our country is senseless. We think cerned with Christmas. Among the people that the school district appar- Christmas will be just fine. The ADF’s letter defends religious Christmas ently pissed off is Alliance Defending Freedom, which describes itself as a “legal ministry” — the songs by citing a federal appellate court’s decision only one of its kind in the country. The ADF wrote that religious songs are okay as long as they are a letter to the school district alleging that their ban “presented objectively as a part of a secular prois unconstitutional and a violation of First Amend- gram of education.” In this regard, the ADF comment rights. The letter continued to cite the right pletely discredits its point. Winter concerts are of students to have Christmas songs in schools. not an educational program for students, nor are religious Christmas songs The ADF’s press release presented objectively if is headlined “NJ school the concerts do not equaldistrict bans religious “Secularism should be all or ly include other religious Christmas carols.” This songs as well. nothing: either all religions are intentional omission of letter also states the ban on other religion’s represented, or none of them are.” thatThe under the First religious songs and the Amendment, schools must excessive attention on the “[refrain] from demoncelebration of Christmas rather than on all holidays reflects the problem that strating an unconstitutional hostility toward songs the Bordentown Regional School District is right in with religious origins.” The decision to ban all religious songs is in no way hostile to one religion or trying to resolve. The dominant narrative of holiday celebration another. It is rather upholding the equal treatment in our society is Christmas. While overlooking all of all Americans regardless of religion. The fact that the headlines surfacing against such other religious holidays, the notion that Christmas songs should be an unquestionable norm in pub- bans are only concerned with their effect on the lic schools is troubling — especially in the United celebration of Christmas directly proves the point. States where there is no official religion. The school All other religious holidays deserve to be acknowldistrict is actually exerting this ban on all religious edged as well. Banning religious Christmas songs is songs, not just Christmas ones, but that hasn’t a school district’s modest way of establishing some stopped media outlets from deeming its ban — and equilibrium in our otherwise-contradictory society. a similar one of many other school districts — as a Secularism should be all or nothing — either all re“war on Christmas.” But if we’re not also singing ligions are represented or none of them are.
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“Going green” should benefit community, not administrators COMMENTARY KAITLIN D’AGOSTINO
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t is completely and utterly obvious that the tuition that continues to increase is not being put to intentions of our interests as students. Instead of receiving increased ser vices, the libraries are open fewer hours on the weekends, the dining halls were closed earlier, and the once frequent and accessible LX buses are now clogged with students — whereas students hoping to go back to Cook and Douglass campuses on the REXLs are nearly fighting for their lives to get home. This is not an exaggeration. Our academic departments are forced to drop important courses, which are needed to provide us with an education, and which we students need to graduate. We cannot be fooled by all this new renovation and the idea that the purchasing of the medical school means the quality of our education has gone up — we must stand up and say something. The practices that the University has taken with our tuition dollars are unethical. We pay more and get nothing. While the University tells us that this is innovation and part of a strategic plan, the strat-
egy that the University is taking will only Students coming from communities like make this a state university for the wealthy Newark or Camden, or who, perhaps, fell and limit education so that the less socio- into an unfortunate circumstance, will be economically fortunate will suffer. Just a denied the right — not the privilege — of few weeks ago, there was a redevelopment education in the great state of New Jersey. Yet, the damage has not been entirely groundbreaking ceremony on the College Avenue campus, and the University and stated. When we deny access to students its adverting affiliates informed us that who come from less wealthy communities what we were doing would be a step to- by tearing down buildings that could have ward progress. Yet what they didn’t men- been more cheaply renovated, we are also tion was that this was the breaking of the breaking our pact to sustainability and the environground ment. We between “We are going green in the way of letting the are going classes. green in This was high up administrators pocket our dollars... the way the widrather than going green to save the of lete n i n g ting the of the environment and save ourselves.” high-up wealth a dmi ni sgap in New Jersey by taking steps to make higher trators pocket our dollars and making education unaffordable for the rest of us. this university highly inaccessible, rather The dormitories to be built will far exceed than going green to save the environment the prices for an average on-campus single and save ourselves. When we tear down or double room. This will either force stu- these buildings, we tear down the future dents to live in housing that is affordable of so many students who rely on public and older — which might have asbestos education to help them give back to the in the ceilings — putting these students community and have a place in the world. at risk for cancer. Or it will force students We tear down the historical and meanout of Rutgers University-New Brunswick, ingful buildings that are integral to prewho cannot afford off-campus housing out ser ving this institution’s prestige. Instead of pocket and cannot access financial aid. of saving the land, these buildings and
ourselves, we save those who take away from us and do us wrong. Now is the time to stand up and stop. Should we continue such practices, tuition will get so expensive that the lower and working classes will have no access to education, and the middle class will be fighting for managerial jobs in retail while the rich relish in the luxur y and the comfort of their greed. We can take this stand toward a better world by taking measures to support higher education for all by preser ving the land and the cause for education and innovation in the environment. One of the ways we can go green environmentally is by banning fracking from New Brunswick and standing up to the oil companies that we invest so heavily in by finally divesting. This is our future and our time to change what will get increasingly worse. The grace of our actions can save our university should we open up our minds to consciousness and see the future. I ask my fellow students, faculty and staff at Rutgers University to stand with me against the commercial green and go green in a way that will profit our community with pastures of rich education, knowledge and hope. Kaitlin D’Agostino is a class of 2012 University alumna.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Societal perception toward brain injuries must be challenged I had the pleasure of speaking recently at the Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research about my current research into brain injury. In particular, how common views of brain injuries — including the terms we use to describe them — often inhibit a deeper understanding of their complexity, which in turn, undermines our ability to more accurately diagnose and more effectively treat brain injury. Coincidentally, the article covering my lecture published in The Daily Targum, which included misquotes that were attributed to me, provides an informative example of precisely the problem I was addressing in my talk. Though the inaccuracies and misquotes have since been corrected in the online version of the paper and a partial retraction was published in the print version, I would like to use this example as an opportunity to continue this vitally important discussion. The first important error was in the title of the article, “Bioethics expert refutes beliefs about brain death.” In my lecture, I did not “refute beliefs about brain death” as the title contends. Rather, I discussed prevailing notions about prognosis and recovery in
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brain injury — arguing that our pervasive understandings, which tend to view brain injuries uniformly, need to be reexamined. I did not, however, refute the definition of “brain death,” which I believe remains valid. Second, the original article included the following misquote attributed to me: “‘All catechisms he (Fins) learned about brain injury are no longer true,’ he said. ‘He grew up with (sic) believing a brain dead person has no cognitive function.’” Again, my view of clinical brain death has not changed. In my lecture, I highlighted my evolving understanding of disorders of consciousness, where those who are diagnosed minimally conscious are conscious, even though they may appear indistinguishable from a vegetative patient to the untrained eye. Finally, the original article included an additional misquote attributed to me: “Brain dead is not synonymous with vegetable.” As a clinician, I would never use the term “vegetable.” In my talk, I used the term “vegetative,” in particular to emphasize important distinctions between persistent and permanent vegetative states. My point was to say that not all severe brain injuries result in impermanent vegetative states. My research finds that some patients will regain consciousness, albeit minimally so. While there is no prospect of recovery from the permanent vegetative state, recovery remains possible — for some — until the
vegetative state becomes permanent. In using the terms brain death and brain injury synonymously — in addition to the other telling errors in the piece — the original article in The Daily Targum illustrates precisely the prevailing social attitudes toward patients with severe brain injury that I believe we need to challenge. Patients are often presumed to have an unfavorable prognosis and treated as if they were dead, or nearly so. Some of these patients, however, harbor the prospect for additional recovery, over time and with emerging interventions, and it is essential that we develop a broader societal understanding of the distinctions within the degrees of brain injury. Dr. Joseph J. Fins is The E. William Davis, Jr. M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Chief of the Division of Medical Ethics at Weill Cornell Medical College where he also serves as a tenured Professor of Medicine, Professor of Public Health and Professor of Medicine in Psychiatry.
Old taxidermy business continues to provide unique experience for all Schwendeman’s Taxidermy is indeed
the oldest continuously run family business in Milltown. The family has been ver y community-minded throughout the years. Having lived here all my life, you kind of take the business for granted and don’t realize how unique it is until you talk to people from other parts of the state. During hunting season, it is not at all strange to see a car pull up with a deer, or even a bear, strapped to the roof of their car and carried inside for mounting. I don’t believe there are many people doing this work out of a storefront in a suburban New Jersey town where there are not many places nearby to hunt. It is not uncommon for the curious to just stop in and look around, and Bruce will always stop what he is working on to show people around his museum-like shop. In the 1960s and 1970s, I remember teachers from the nearby Parkview Elementar y School would walk their class to the shop for a tour. I don’t believe the school does that anymore, but that was sure an experience for a preteen that kids in other towns did not get to have. I don’t know how many times, when asked where I am from, and say Milltown, people say, “Oh, the town with the taxidermy place.” Brian Harto is the Milltown borough historian.
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Horoscopes
DIVERSIONS Nancy Black
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Today’s Birthday (10/30/13). Your next year sparkles with creative energy. Springtime is especially fun, as someone special enters your inner circle. Capture the muse in sound, image or words. Share your expression, and positive attention grows. Your career especially heats up next summer. Work partnerships thrive, especially when you add love. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 9 — Distractions abound, especially romantically. Chop wood and carry water. Provide great service. Call in the reserves and they’ll take care of you. It’s a good time for an intimate conversation. Wait for a quiet moment. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 9 — Read everything and soak it all up. You’re creatively on fire and quite attractive. Focus on your strengths and build up your equity. Get it in writing. Get paperwork done early so you can play. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 9 — Create more work for yourself. The busier you are, the less time you’ll have to spend money; earn it by saving. A softer voice works better. Continue your studies of a particular passion. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Follow a hunch to find riches. But don’t spend what you don’t have. It’s better to do the work yourself today and save. And don’t avoid your personal responsibilities and chores. Do the math. Just show up. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 9 — Your financial net worth increases, thanks to your determination. You don’t have to make things complicated or complex. Keep it simple, and stick to basics for ease and freedom. Relax your thinking. Settle into home comforts tonight. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Listen for magic in the most unusual places. You’re especially strong right now. Use your power wisely. Advise the others to stick to the schedule. Keep order. Find a way to spend more time at home.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — It’s contemplation time. Put your thoughts down in writing, even if you never plan to read them. It’s the process that counts. The details work for you. You’re especially cute now, even if you don’t think so. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — The possibility of error is high, as well as the possibility of reward. Weigh your risks and choose your battles. It’s a good time to make long-range plans and renew career goals. Make lists. What would expansion look like? Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Bring along as many friends as possible, but remember to get some private time for rest or meditation. Expand your playfulness, especially around your career endeavors. Get the team’s feedback. Record results. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — Remember epic dreams, and build a dynamic vision. A partner helps you achieve the next level. Let another represent you. Travel and adventure call. The road may get bumpy. Rest your mind in meditation. Reconnect with a friend. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Add a bit of passion, and it’ll be easier to handle business and financial issues. Take some time off to go for a walk, a ride or a drive, and clear some ideas. Sometimes is better to let your partner do the talking. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — Family matters and work may collide, but not for long. Make sure you understand what’s requested. Sometimes you just have to say what they want to hear, out of love. Winning may not be as much fun as you thought.
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week Knights use 10-day layoff to rest, move past recent offensive struggles continued from back believes a turnaround is possible with just one regular season game remaining. “I wouldn’t want to be a coach here if I didn’t have confidence in our team,” Donigan said. “I just hope now that we can get ourselves, again, healthy, ready to go like we were coming into preseason and into the first stretch of the season.” For how unfortunate the Knights have been, their 10-day layoff — the longest of the season — could not come at a more opportune time. Though senior forward Kene Eze and sophomore forward Mitchell Taintor returned since battling injuries, a lack of meaningful rest hindered their fitness levels. Donigan held both out of physical practice drills Monday to focus on cardio. Instead of trying to press through stressful times, the Knights now have the luxury of taking a step back. “Sometimes the best thing you can do to get better is to take a few days off mentally and physically away from the game and just kind of relax,” said freshman midfielder Erik Sa. “Then when you come back out, you’re working as hard as you did in the beginning of the year and your legs feel a lot more refreshed and your mind feels more refreshed.” A fresh start is all Rutgers can cling to now. With their final conference game looming Saturday at Central Florida, the eighth-place Knights’
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Page 13 ceiling is the fifth seed in next week’s AAC Tournament. Donigan has made it clear they will stay patient with Eze and Taintor to generate offense. He also wants to emphasize a learning experience for his youthheavy core. “They’re in a very fragile point in their development, and we’ve just got to keep working on it,” Donigan said. “The things that these guys have gone through and what they’re fighting right now, just the frustration of giving up late goals or making a bad mistake, those can play on your mind. But at the end of the day, I think it can make you stronger and make you better.” Some of the Knights, though, insist the problem has been more concrete. Taintor believes injuries and yellow card suspensions simply took their toll. “I don’t think it was a lot of immaturity,” he said. “I just think that it was a lot of hard knocks and unfortunate events that happened at an unfortunate time. I think everyone knows what they need to do and Coach [Donigan] tells us great things to do, helps us in practice … and it’s up to us to execute it.” Donigan’s biggest concern is making sure everyone is 100-percent healthy now. While Eze and Taintor move on from midseason injuries, sophomore forward J.P. Correa and senior defender Joe Setchell continue to rehab from offseason hip surgeries. All of those obstacles have made developing chemistry a tedious process for the Knights, but they refuse to give up. “We’re going through a drought right now,” Sa said. “We’re just working our hardest to get out of that, and hopefully when we’re out of it, the floodgates will open.”
just the nature of the of fenses we’re playing.” But another reason could lie Seventeen-of-21 turnovers in who made those same plays produced last season came last season. Of the 21 forced in the Knights’ from departed players first seven games in 2012, 17 came from players no longer with the program. Former linebacker Khacontinued from back seem Greene even forced three end zone to intercept quarterback fumbles himself against Syracuse. The instinct this season has John O’Korn on fade routes but been keeping the ball away from failed to produce an interception. “We’ve had some good cov- opposing offenses, and when it erage at times and their player has, Rutgers has failed to capitalmade the play,” said head coach ize. The Knights Kyle Flood generated on Monday. three turnovers “They won the oneonone. We “For whatever reason, the Oct. 10 against Louisville, but didn’t win that teams we’re playing, oneonone.” everything is so spread turned those three plays Rutgers’ out. A lot of tackles into just three front seven also are one-on-one.” points. created no turnS n y d e r overs against Kyle flood knows how the Cougars. hEAD COACH important turn“ Yo u ’ r e overs are to looking for that Rutgers and spark, and we missed it,” Snyder said. “We nev- understands the skill might have er quite got it, and attribute that left when the defense’s veterans graduated or were drafted. to them.” “That might be part of it,” Facing spread offenses could explain the lack of turnovers. Snyder said. “I think it just came Spreads provide less opportunity down to guys having the nose for to get multiple defenders on the the football. I think that could have been it and we’re not quite ball, Flood said. “That’s generally where there yet.” you see the ball get dislodged For updates on the Rutgers footand get knocked out,” he said. “For whatever reason, the ball team, follow Bradly Derechaiteams we’re playing, ever ything lo on Twitter @Bradly_D. For genis so spread out. A lot of the eral Rutgers sports updates, follow tackles are oneonone. That’s @TargumSports.
Trinity Forward Stefanie Scholz leads Rutgers with 10 goals, 21 points this season continued from back Glenn Crooks. “Sometimes teams can get 35 shots on the net, but they may have shots that sail over the goal and out of play. The quality shots are the ones that matter to us and result from our good opportunities.” Another vital par t of the Knights’ of fense is their diverse attacking trio. Rutgers boasts three players who possess impressive of fensive numbers this season. “We managed to develop three legitimate goal scorers, which we have not had here for quite some time,” Crooks said. “Stef, Jonelle and Madison have scored on a regular basis and come up with big goals.” Senior forward Jonelle Filigno leads the team in shots on goal this season with 26. She also leads the conference in game-winning goals with five. Filigno does not shy away from the offensive spotlight, as she led the Big East last season in points and goals. Her 15 goals last season tied for the most in Rutgers history. This season, the Canadian national team member has not needed to shoulder the entire load offensively. Filigno ranks second in goals and points. “We really have a great attacking mentality this season,” Filigno said. “A lot of girls have taken the responsibility and leadership of putting the ball in the back of the net when they enter the box or when they are around the box.”
The second of the Knights’ scoring threats falls on junior forward Stefanie Scholz, who currently leads the team in goals (10) — fifth in the AAC — and points (21). Although she may lead the team in points and goals, Scholz came a long way from the beginning of the season. “We have been pressing Stef all season to take advantage of her skillset and beat defenders with her athleticism, and she has made strides towards doing that,” Crooks said. “Going into our match against Princeton, she only had one goal for us and wasn’t in a star ting role. That game we gave her a chance, and she erupted for four goals.” Scholz knows her role in the offense’s scheme. “When we are on offense, we use the width of the field and try to swing the ball around to strike
when we can up close near the box,” Scholz said. The last member of Rutgers’ attacking trinity is freshman midfielder Madison Tiernan. She leads the Knights with five assists and 53 shots and ranks third on the team in goals and points. She developed in her own right this season and provides the vital third option on offense. “One of the things we need to get better at is a reliable midfield scoring threat,” Crooks said. “Our midfield has been performing well, but Madison brings in good finishing abilities, great strength for her age and is getting better tactically every single day in training and each match.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s soccer team, follow Tyler Karalewich on Twitter @ TylerKaralewich. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
Head coach Glenn Crooks said his top attacking trio this season is his best in quite some time for his 14-year Rutgers tenure. DAPHNE ALVA
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October 30, 2013 MEN’S GOLF KNIGHTS WIN FIRST INVITE SINCE 2009
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Experience gives much optimism By Sean Stewart Staff Writer
Junior Jacob Stockl won the Rutgers Invitational on Sept. 14. Rutgers won two tournaments this year after not winning one since 2009. The team titles came Sept. 24 at Hartford and Monday at the Lehigh Invitational. THE DAILY TARGUM / SEPTEMBER 2012
Two tournament wins highlight strong season By Sean Stewart Staff Writer
With the fall season over, the Rutgers men’s golf team enters the offseason feeling accomplished in its progress. The Scarlet Knights won their first tournament since 2009, winning Sept. 24 at the Hartford Hawks Invitational. They also capped the season Monday by capturing the Lehigh Invitational. The Knights competed in both tournaments last year but fell short of their goals. This year, the talent finally met its potential. “Last year I think we came in second twice so we kind of knew we had the potential. It was just a matter of getting all four and five guys to get on track the whole tournament,” said senior co-captain Jonathan Renza. “In previous tournaments we had four play well
one round and maybe only three in the next, instead of four or five all the time. So we didn’t really have to change much. It was just a different attitude going into the last day.” That demeanor shift resulted in one of the Knights’ most successful fall seasons in recent memory. Rutgers became a team that consistently performs better round to round. It also successfully integrated freshmen into its lineup for vital experience without jeopardizing the team’s performance. Head coach Rob Shutte cannot complain with the results. “I’m not going to say it’s the greatest fall season of all time, but at the same time as a coach I am happy with what I have seen,” Shutte said. “I think it’s a perfect scenario. We get two wins, get a lot of experience for a lot of guys and got a lot of freshmen in the rotation.”
Shutte also praised the more experienced golfers for their important play throughout the season. Junior Jacob Stockl began the season Sept. 14 by winning the Rutgers Invitational. Senior captain Doug Walters recorded several top-three performances, including his first-career tournament win at Lehigh. Sophomore Jonathan Chang finished among the top-20 competitors in four of the five fall events. Their strong performances allowed freshmen Michael Howe, Chase Wheatley and Ryan Rose to play in the rotation. “The growth is about the freshmen and sophomores. We were able to get some tournament experience for all of them,” Shutte said. “[We] gave them a couple opportunities, so it’s really going to be about them if you want to see how we’re going to
grow and get better. We want the positive energy from our upperclassmen to rub off on the freshmen and sophomores.” The Knights enter the offseason preparing to hit the golf course as much as possible before snow arrives. The team also looks to stay fit in the weight room, focusing on core strength and improving mental toughness. The Knights have an indoor simulator so they can maintain their muscle memory during the winter. For Renza, Walters and senior Dillon Corbo, the offseason will be their last with the program. While Walters has proven to be a mainstay in the lineup, he takes nothing for granted. “I don’t want to really get too caught up in it personally because nothing is guaranteed,” Walters said.
It is hard for the Rutgers volleyball team to find positives this season. The Scarlet Knights (4-19, 0-9) possess a nine-game losing streak and no AAC victories. They lost both home games this weekend, one of which was Sunday against formerly winless Cincinnati. It can be easy to look at the results and deem the weekend a failure, but despite the losses, the Knights feel there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic. It started with their performance Friday against Louisville, where they pushed the AAC-leading Cardinals to their limit before ultimately falling in four sets. Junior middle blocker Rachel Andreassian stood out against the Cardinals, providing eight kills and a team-high .412 hitting percentage. “When you play a team that’s on a really high level, it does bring your level of play up,” Andreassian said. “I think we did a really good job playing together as a team and we saw a lot of great things even if we didn’t finish how we wanted to. So I think that will help us going into the next round of conference play.” The Knights beat the Cardinals in the first set and also led the Cincinnati Bearcats, 2-1, before performing poorly to end the match. For head coach CJ Werneke, the results do not reflect the team’s talent, but rather its inexperience in pressure situations. “We haven’t been in a tight situation like that in a while and haven’t been in a five-game set in a while. So it’s all down to experience,” Werneke said. “You can’t make freshmen and sophomores into juniors and seniors. They become juniors and seniors through experiences like that.” To minimize crucial errors like those last weekend, the team focused on creating pressure situations in practice and preparing for different rotations it could face in matches. “You never know what rotation you’re going to be in at the end of the game. It’s something we don’t control,” Werneke said. “We could be in Rotation 5, we could be in Rotation 2, we could be in Rotation 6. … You can never prepare them for a match that game day, in that kind of pressure, so we try to do the best we can during practice.” Having played every conference team once, the Knights enter the second half of AAC play with familiarity. With experience gained last weekend, sophomore libero Ali Schroeter believes the team has plenty to look forward to. “I think we’re getting better every day. The younger girls are learning and getting the hang of it, and it shows as the progression of the year goes,” Schroeter said. “This weekend was a big confidence booster. We played really well against Louisville and took Cincinnati to five [sets] and maybe we should have won, but I definitely think going into the second round of conference play that we will be more ready for it.” For updates on the Rutgers volleyball team, follow @TargumSports on Twitter.
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Flood explains Nova’s positional battle comment By Josh Bakan Sports Editor
Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood clarified junior quarterback Gary Nova’s Monday comment, that he received all of Sunday’s first-team reps. “Yesterday I got all the reps with the ones, so I don’t know what’s going on there,” Nova said Monday of his positional battle. Senior quarterback Chas Dodd played some first team Sunday, a school official told The Star-Ledger on Monday. Flood said after yesterday’s practice he did not address Nova’s Monday comments, but he tried to assess Nova’s confusion. “My understanding was that somebody asked a question about a quarterback competition, which is an expression that I’ve never used,” Flood said. “Ever y player in the program should come to practice ever y day with the intention of winning their job.” The question for Nova was, “Going into Temple this week with practices, will it be tougher to prepare with only getting half as many reps with the ones?” Nova and Dodd were not available for comment yesterday. Nova received most of the firstteam reps yesterday, but Dodd saw some time too. Sophomore quarterback Mike Bimonte practiced with a combination of first and second teamers. Flood said postgame he did not consider bringing in Bimonte or any quarterback but Dodd when he substituted Nova out Saturday against Houston. Bimonte generally participates only in 7-on-7 practice drills. “The most impressive thing to me is when I see Mike go into the team period [yesterday] he knows where to go with the ball,” Flood said. “He knows where his eyes should be. He knows what the reads should be.”
Junior quarterback Gary Nova said Monday he took all the first-team reps Sunday. Head coach Kyle Flood explained the notion of a “quarterback controversy” might have confused Nova. Nova was not available for comment yesterday. LUOYE WONG Several wideouts who play significantly have had more chances to build on-field chemistry with Nova than Dodd. Nova has started every game in Flood’s twoyear tenure. But senior wide receiver Quron Pratt expressed confidence in the first team’s relationship with Dodd, including aspects that must improve this week. “That all begins in the meeting room — the preparation off the field, as well as on the field — and go from there,” Pratt said. “They both get reps in practice, so we
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receiver Ruhann Peele switched to cornerback yesterday for the week. The 6-foot-1, 185-pounder played some defense in high school — mostly safety but a little corner. There is no guarantee he will switch back after Saturday against Temple, Flood said. “I played corner sometimes in a game too when it was third down or something, but it’s just
football to me so it’s the same,” Peele said. Rutgers dug deep for potential cornerback this week once the team suspended freshman Nadir Barnwell for violating team rules. Flood began implementing sophomore free safety Tejay Johnson at cornerback — his former position — occasionally for this week. Barnwell’s suspension also opened opportunities for redshirt freshman Jevon Tyree, who did not play Saturday against Houston. The team’s injury report listed Tyree probable Monday with a virus.
“Tejay you will see a little more at safety, maybe some at corner,” Flood said. “Jevon has been playing corner and he is somebody who is competing for time. He is a little under the weather right now, but he was able to come out and practice. He will compete also to have a role.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @JoshBakan. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @ TargumSports.
FOOTBALL AGUDOSI, TSIMIS LEAD KNIGHTS IN CATCHES, YARDS AGAINST HOUSTON
Freshman receivers flash Rutgers’ depth at position By Greg Johnson Associate Sports Editor
Boos rained on junior quarterback Gary Nova after he tossed his third interception Saturday against Houston, but that drive had a silver lining for the Rutgers football team. Down 35-14 with 7:27 left in the third quarter, Nova tried to orchestrate a last-ditch comeback attempt through an unlikely source. Star ting from the Scarlet Knights’ 25-yard line, Nova lofted two consecutive deep balls into the hands of a 6-foot-6 wide receiver. It was not junior Brandon Coleman. Redshirt freshman Carlton Agudosi emerged with the football. His first two-career catches went for 59 yards — enough to lead Rutgers’ sluggish offense in receiving yardage. “I had a post [on the first catch],” Agudosi said. “There was one high safety, the corner
was playing like 5 to 6 yards off. So Gary trusted me and threw it up and I just went up and made the play. The second one I had a slant-and-go. Gary put it up, and I just had to go react to it.” Agudosi, who had an impressive camp but dealt with hamstring issues early this season, finally saw his first meaningful offensive snaps. He had mostly played on special teams. Nova’s interception just three plays later essentially sealed Rutgers’ fate, but his growing trust in Agudosi might be beneficial moving forward. The Somerset, N.J., native’s wiry frame creates mismatches in the slot, giving Nova another tall target alongside Coleman and sophomore tight end Tyler Kroft, who lead the Knights in catches. But Agudosi’s increased playing time largely came as a result of lower body injuries hampering wideouts Leonte Carroo and Quron Pratt.
He is unsure if he did enough with his reps to play more on of fense. “It’s up to the coaching staff. They’re going to break down the film and see if I’m deserving of another chance,” Agudosi said. “It’s easy to look at the two catches, but there are other plays that are involved in the game. … I need to improve on my blocking, just knowing the system like the back of my hand and definitely my routes all around.” He was not the only receiver who flashed Rutgers’ depth at the position. True freshman John Tsimis made his first appearance since his junior year at Bergen Catholic (N.J.) High School after a torn ACL in May 2012 sidelined Tsimis his entire senior year. He was worried he may ultimately have had to redshirt this season. “It’s been almost two years since the last time I’ve played, so I’ve just been waiting to get an-
other opportunity,” Tsimis said. “I started running with the ones in practice and as we got closer to game time, I saw maybe those receivers wouldn’t be ready and that I was going to be the guy.” Nova targeted Tsimis four times, completing an 11-yard pass to the 6-foot, 175-pound wideout in Rutgers’ first offensive series. Tsimis then reeled in a 21yard reception in the second quarter on a backside dig route, in which a receiver cuts back toward the quarterback, against Houston’s cover 2. “Once, I slipped the corner, I knew nobody was going to be there. I was wide open,” Tsimis said. “The first play I was in, right away we got a pass called and I see us one-on-one and the corner’s bailing off. So I had a 12-yard hook and I knew I was going to be open. Gary was able to throw me the ball on target.” Tsimis’ two catches went for 32 yards. Along with Agudosi and
redshirt freshman tight end Nick Arcidiacono, the trio combined for 112 yards on six catches. Andre Patton, another true freshman, started but could not find his first-career catch. With Coleman, who had offseason knee surgery, Carroo and Pratt needing to be spelled more as the season wears on, the rookies’ numbers could be called again. Head coach Kyle Flood knows he has a surplus of viable receiver talent. “I don’t know if anybody’s 100 percent if you’re playing at this point in the season.” Flood said. “But I have full confidence in Andre and John. I thought they did a nice job [last] week in practice. So I didn’t have an issue with us using them.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @GregJohnsonRU. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
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FOOTBALL KNIGHTS HOLD 10 TAKEAWAYS THIS SEASON
Defense struggles to produce turnovers By Bradly Derechailo Associate Sports Editor
Junior outside linebacker Kevin Snyder cannot quite figure out why the Rutgers football team’s production in forcing turnovers has dropped off from years past. Junior cornerback Gareef Glashen also had a hard time when asked about the secondary’s lack of interceptions. “I’m not sure, I have no explanation for that,” Glashen said. “I can’t speak on it.” In their first seven games last season, the Scarlet Knights forced 21 turnovers. This season, they recorded just 10. “You can’t create turnovers, you can’t get the ball on the ground and get fumbles if you’re not around the ball,” Snyder said. “Ever ything happens around the ball, so that’s when you’ll have a better chance to get turnovers.” The lack of turnovers is prevalent at all levels of the Knights defense. Rutgers posted 13 interceptions in its first seven games last season, starting the campaign, 7-0. In two of those games — South Florida and Connecticut — the Knights picked off opposing quarterbacks a combined seven times. But the secondary has just four this season, including one — an interception by former Knight Ian Thomas in the opener Aug. 29 against Fresno State — by a cornerback. In Saturday’s game against Houston, the Knights cornerbacks had opportunities in the Outside linebacker Keven Snyder, middle, said one of the reasons for Rutgers’ lack of forced turnovers this season is because not as many defenders are getting to the ball. Rutgers has just 10 this season, forcing none last game. SHAWN SMITH
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WOMEN’S SOCCER KNIGHTS OUTSHOOT OPPONENTS, 278-195
MEN’S SOCCER
Knights use Impressive trinity highlights Rutgers offense bye week to recuperate By Tyler Karalewich Staff Writer
By Greg Johnson Associate Sports Editor
Intently looking on as the Rutgers men’s soccer team practiced Monday morning inside the Bubble, head coach Dan Donigan insisted his confidence has not been shaken. A realist throughout the season, Donigan has been candid about the Scarlet Knights’ (59-2, 2-4-1) inconsistencies, immaturities and lack of accountability during their four-game losing skid. Week after week since late September, Rutgers has handled its struggles in an optimistic fashion. Yet scoring issues persist, and time has nearly expired. But despite injuries and youthful woes in the second half of the season, Donigan still See week on Page 13
Senior forward Jonelle Filigno leads the Knights with 26 shots on goal this season. Filigno has shouldered less of the team’s offensive load, as she is second in goals. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER EXTRA POINT
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N.Y. Rangers N.Y. Islanders
3 2
Tampa Bay New Jersey
1 2
Anaheim Philadelphia
3 2
Dallas Montreal
1 2
Ottawa Chicago
4 4
Winnipeg St. Louis
1 2
SARAH STUBY, senior goalkeeper, made eight saves in the Rutgers field hockey team’s loss Friday. Stuby has 55 saves with a .753 save percentage for the season. The Knights play their last home game Friday against Old Dominion.
The Rutgers women’s soccer team has much to celebrate this year. The Scarlet Knights compiled a historic 10-1 home record this year — a program first — while also clinching the AAC Tournament’s third seed. Much of the Knights’ success this season falls on their attacking methods. Rutgers’ offensive approach is complex and overpowering at times, as the team routinely outshoots its opponent. For the season, the Knights have outshot their opponents, 278-195, converting their chances for 33 goals entering postseason play. They rank fifth in shots in the AAC. While Rutgers is able to take so many shots on goal, that is not exactly their game plan. “We don’t pay too much attention to our total shots each game. We focus on our opportunities to score,” said head coach See trinity on Page 13
Knights schedule
FIELD HOCKEY
VOLLEYBALL
MEN’S BASKETBALL
CROSS COUNTRY
vs. Old Dominion
at Southern Methodist
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Friday, 1 p.m. Bauer Track & Field Complex
Friday, 7 p.m. Dallas
Friday, 7:30 p.m. RAC
Saturday Madison, Conn.