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Cannon crew Rutgers veteran shares Air Force experience carries history, tradition to U. By Matt Vitone Contributing Writer
For Juan Hernandez, this Veteran’s Day was a ver y special one, as it marked the first year the former airman was able to celebrate the day as a veteran. Hernandez, a U.S. Air Force Senior Airman who was honorably discharged in April, said he spent this Veteran’s Day enjoying the festivities at the Veterans House on College Avenue campus. “Ever y Veteran’s Day in the past I was active duty,” said Hernandez, a School of Management and Labor Relations first-year student. “So [being a veteran] is still surreal for me.” As an Air Force pilot, Hernandez, who joined the armed ser vices in 2009, said he was stationed across the globe in countries throughout Africa and Europe, including Spain, Germany and Cameroon. “I got to meet people from dif ferent cultures,” he said. “Although the United States has a
By Josh Bakan Sports Editor
Maria Ayash saw a candle move from window to window then back, but no one was there. It was one of many ghosts Ayash has seen at war reenactment camps, presumably of fallen soldiers, which she said used to raise the hair on the back of her and her boyfriend’s necks. “We knew there was nobody there because everybody was at the wedding,” Ayash said Nov. 2 before the Rutgers football team’s match against Temple. “If you don’t bother them, they don’t bother you.” Both are members of the nine-member cannon crew that sits in the corner of High Point Solutions Stadium during Rutgers football games. Ghosts were the only explanation for the candle floating throughout the rooms, but both had another See cREW on Page 6
Juan Hernandez, a School of Management and Labor Relations first-year student, served four years in the U.S. Air Force. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SHIRLEY YU / ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR
Cuts to food stamps hit low-income residents
Director helps develop cloud connect tool
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By Nikhilesh De Contributing Writer
CometCloud is a cloud-computing program that connects computers from around the world to solve problems in the fields of engineering, medicine, geology, business and physics. Manish Parashar, the director of the Rutgers Discover y Informatics Institute, is a critical member of a team working on a piece of cloud-computing software that unites the global scientific community. This program works by combining resources from various countries to increase the computing capability of the network, he said. According to the RDI 2 website, the research group’s goal is to star t an integrated ef for t that plans to of fer a variety of educational programs to Rutgers students, academic researchers and industr y researchers. “CometCloud is a software system that allows you to solve impor tant, challenging problems using a federated infrastructure which combines a whole bunch of resources,” Parashar said. “If I want to solve a ver y big problem, I may not have enough resources See cloud on Page 4
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Left to right: Robyn Ginese, associate director of Leadership and Training, Ryan Bissonnette, assistant director of Leadership and Training, Allison Zabady, a School of Arts and Sciences senior and Amanda Sedlmayer, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, participated in team-building activities for ‘Leadership Week.’ RONNIE MENDOZA
Week aims to highlight skills beyond classrooms By Zara Noori Contributing Writer
Initiated in April, Leadership Week intends to strengthen and highlight leadership skills going beyond the classroom environment. Hosted by Rutgers Student Life, the week will feature a variety of events that are open to the Rutgers University community. Realizing the importance of leadership skills, Matt Ferguson, director of Leadership and Training in the Department of Student Life, said he decided to hold the event in the fall semester of the academic year. It allows students to start the academic year off by sharpening their leadership skills that would carry
them throughout the rest of the year. “Leadership Week is designed to develop skills and competencies relating to leadership that aren’t necessarily in the classroom environment,” Ferguson said. The events include a Team-Building Fair & Challenge, the Great Meal Packing Challenge, WOW! Talks & Storytelling Workshop and The MacGyver Method. The Team-Building Fair & Challenge, held at the Busch Campus Center yesterday, was open to students for free. Faculty and staff could also attend for a small fee. The fair tailored to students’ and organizations’ needs to help them See WEEK on Page 5
The Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program had its federal funding reduced Nov. 1, and it directly affects the amount of food stamps each individual or family receives. According to the Food Research and Action Center’s website, the minimum dollar amount of food stamps changed from $16 to $15. On average, an individual receiving food stamps now loses $11 a month, a family of two loses $20 a month, a family of three loses $29 a month and a family of four loses $36 dollars a month. These numbers are based on the 5.5 percent reduction of the maximum allotment, according to frac.org. Olivia Shasho, a School of Environment and Biological Sciences senior, said she believes this will significantly affect the homeless and impoverished population. “There’s probably tons of people in New Brunswick that rely, at least partially, on the SNAP program to help put food on the table,” she said. Shasho hopes this will not make people think participation in the SNAP program is unattractive. “I think the stigma already hinders the program by making people less apt to use it, and with the reduction, it could further deter people from the program,” she said. Michelle Wilson, associate director at Elijah’s Promise, said the organization has not seen any noticeable effects yet because the SNAP reduction took
place so recently. “We fully expect that we will be serving an even greater number of guests at the soup kitchen,” she said. Elijah’s Promise has a soup kitchen located at 18 Neilson St., behind the Rutgers Public Safety Building. Wilson said the soup kitchen now serves the most meals in its history, and she can safely assume that the food stamp reduction will only increase the amount of guests at Elijah’s Promise. Erin Hussey, a staff member at Elijah’s Promise, said she hopes they will be able to meet any increased needs of the people reliant upon the soup kitchen. “The donation season is picking up, and we hope the community will be generous,” said Hussey, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. Wilson said Elijah’s Promise needs the support of the community to make sure that the guests at the soup kitchen will not go hungry. According to frac.org, due to the reduction, more people will qualify for other outlets for aid such as lower priced school meals, emergency food assistance and home delivered meals. These other options are for food stamp recipients, as well as for those in the household of a recipient. In addition, SNAP benefits can increase for people of age 60 or older if they report personal medical costs, according to the website. Those who pay for adult day care or childcare expenses can see SNAP benefits go up if they pay for transportation and other fees.
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Friday, Nov. 15
The Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Ar ts Center and the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies present New Jersey Film Festival selection “Crude” at 7 p.m. in the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Ar t museum on the College Avenue campus. Admission is $10 for the general public and $9 for students and senior citizens. Rutgers Theatre Company presents “Cyrano de Bergerac” at 7:30 p.m. at the Philip J. Levin theatre on Douglass campus. Tickets are $25 for the general public, $20 for faculty, staf f and alumni and $15 for students.
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Lecturer highlights issues in funding for transportation By Wilson Conde Staff Writer
Richard Ravitch, the former head of New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, discussed his experience managing the MTA during a guest lecture yesterday at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center. Ravitch’s lecture, titled “The Tragedy of Transportation: Underfunding our Future,” began with the story of how he took charge of the MTA. In 1979, Ravitch was on the board for New York City’s WNET public television station when New York state’s then-governor Hugh Carey offered to appoint him as head of the MTA. “I said to him: ‘Are you out of your mind?’” Ravitch said. “I’ve been riding the subways since I was 10.” When he became head of the MTA, Ravitch said the transportation system was in ver y poor shape and in desperate need of renovation. Ravitch also discovered that it was severely underfunded, only receiving about $100 million, even though the costs of modernizing the MTA would cost about $2 billion. “It was easy to explain why the system was deteriorated,” he said. Ravtich then discussed how he persuaded the state legislature to allow the MTA to borrow money and increase taxes to enable the MTA to pay back those loans. Ravitch said the additional taxes enabled the MTA to borrow about $14 billion to modernize its infrastructure. While heading the MTA, Ravitch faced criticism from the press and the public because the subways and buses were constantly having accidents and mechanical failures. Ironically, this actually helped him do his job because he used it to convince legislators of the importance of additional revenues. “That was the best thing that ever happened to me,” he said. “If it wasn’t for the media, there would have never been a backdrop to get the politicians to recognize the capital necessar y if we were to have a viable transportation system.” He also praised Carey for supporting him despite the potential political costs. “He was able to persuade the political system to provide the funds necessary and not hold the rising fares against the people who raised them and beat them over the head with it and make them politically vulnerable,” Ravitch said. Ravitch then said in recent years, transportation infrastructure improvements have been harder to accomplish — many states must deal with rising costs of pension and health care benefits for retiring government employees along with the shrinking tax revenues the recent recession has caused.
Also, Ravitch said politicians find it easy to divert funds reser ved for transportations for other uses to avoid politically unpopular tax hikes or cuts to other government programs, because the impact of transportation projects does not manifest right away. “There’s not a lot of short term political benefits to building a big [transportation-related] construction project if it will not be finished until seven years from now,” Ravitch said. “It’s easy to defer public infrastructure expenditures because you don’t see the benefit [right away].” Ravitch recounted when former President Ronald Reagan responded to a reporter’s question on how he could support a gasoline tax increase to support mass transit by saying it was not a tax, but a user charge. He compared this to how politicians are extremely reluctant to raise revenues in any way because it could cost them their political careers. “Nowadays from Congress, you can’t get bupkis,” he said. “There’s a dysfunctionality in the political system.” Ravitch said politicians’ reluctantly support raising revenues to make improvements to transportation infrastructure, as a result of politicians focusing on their short-term political concerns instead of the longterm consequences of their political decisions. “Kicking the can down the road is the easiest thing to do,” he said. Ariana Blake, the transportation representative at the Rutgers University Student Assembly, said she attended this event to learn how she could apply Ravitch’s expertise about improving transportation systems to the Rutgers system. “If anyone knows anything about transportation, he would know about it,” said Blake, a School of Arts and Sciences senior. “I hoped to learn about what has been done to transportation on large scales like the MTA and what lessons from that can be applied to Rutgers.” Nicholas Tulach, a project coordinator at the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center, said Ravitch’s guest lecture gave him a new perspective on the problems related to modernizing the transportation system. “The challenge is basically political,” Tulach said. “It’s not just an economic or physical infrastructure problem — it’s that politicians are not making the best decisions.” Robert Noland, director of the Voorhees Transpor tation Center, said he is glad Ravitch emphasized the idea that people have to take a stand for investing in a better future by investing in public transpor tation. “It’s a matter of making yourself heard,” he said. “By not investing in your future, you are undermining your future.”
Top: The Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy’s Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center hosted Richard Ravitch, former head of New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Bottom: Ravitch lectures about transportation issues. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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ed missiles,” he said. “We had to do a combat landing, which is when the pilot swer ves the Four people died in the attack on the Benghazi plane side to side.” Upon landing, Hernandez compound in Libya said a clear plan of action helped the success of the miscontinued from front Four people died in the attack sion. He was able to land withon the compound, including out incident. Now back at home, Hernanlot of diversity, it’s a dif ferent U.S. Ambassador John Christostor y when you’re actually in pher Stevens, according to CBS dez has star ted his first seNews. All American diplomat- mester as a human resource the countr y of that person.” Hernandez said he was inter- ic personnel were flown out of management and labor studies double major. ested in ser ving in the armed Benghazi following the attack. He said he chose Rutgers Hernandez said his role was forces since 2005, when he to safely deliver and protect the because of its proximity to graduated high school. home and its He initially wanted to be a team of Mastrong reputaMarine, but felt the Air Force rines as they tion of helping of fered him more of what he went to con“I met the directors here veterans’ tranwanted, including the oppor- duct the evactunity to travel the world and uation. at the vet house, and they sition to stulife. “When we gain valuable life experiences, pretty much guided me. dent “I met the landed we he said. I never knew how much directors here “I felt the militar y was a great were carr ying support they had at this at the [veterstepping stone in pursuit of my about 50 maan’s] house, goal of finishing school and get- rines,” he said. school.” and they pretty “And those 50 ting a good job,” he said. much guided During his time in the Air marines were JUAN HERNANDEZ me,” he said. Force, Hernandez was de- the team that School of Management and Labor “I never knew ployed with the United States was going to Relations first-year student how much supall Africa Command, where he evacuate por t they had flew with a security detail of the personnel at this school.” militar y police for aircrafts en- out of there.” Hernandez said several UniFlying into such a potentially tering Africa, he said. One of the most high-profile dangerous situation, Hernan- versity staf f members, includmissions of Hernandez’s ca- dez feared rebel forces would ing Stephen Abel, director for reer saw him flying into Libya, potentially target the plane as it Veteran’s Ser vices at Rutgers, helped him along his transition where he assisted U.S. Marines was tr ying to land. “One of the biggest threats to Rutgers. evacuating the U.S. diplomatic “Our of fice helps with compound in Benghazi follow- we had before landing was that the rebels had laser-guid- the enrollment of active-duing the deadly 2012 attack.
November 12, 2013 ty ser vice members who are looking to come to Rutgers,” said Abel, retired U.S. Army Colonel. “We work on smoothing the transition from the militar y on to campus.” Abel said veterans tend to be older, non-traditional students, which means they face a dif ferent set of challenges from their non-veteran peers. “They’ve been away from academics for a while,” he said. “They’re often a little bit apprehensive about the idea of being back in the classroom and competing academically.” Hernandez said he hopes to work for Johnson & Johnson after graduation because of their suppor t for veterans, and so he can in turn help other veterans find jobs. “I want to be par t of that human resource team that wants to hire more [veterans],” he said. Now that he is at home, Hernandez is enjoying spending time with his family again, watching football and indulging in things he wasn’t allowed to do while on active duty. “I’ve definitely been enjoying myself,” he said. “Just catching up with my family and having the freedom to do things I couldn’t do in the past, like letting my beard grow – the little things like that.”
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in one place.” The team’s latest experiment included machines from four dif ferent countries – the United Kingdom, Singapore, Spain and the United States, he said. CometCloud was previously involved in a variety of experiments, which included simulations of natural gasses and oil reser voirs, business risk analyses and cancer tissue analyses, he said. According to the Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center page, CometCloud allows users to look at results when they become available. The software also updates tasks on its own. CometCloud can choose which computers it uses depending on the resources it needs, Parashar said. The cost of using a computer, availability and a computer’s ability to help complete a task can all be parameters to find the appropriate resources to solve a problem, he said. Some computers are built to handle specific data computation, he said. CometCloud matches them with other computers built for other computations. The program works by creating a specific cloud for the task it is given, he said. The user only needs to enter their data – the program will and task then take over from there. According to the CAC website, the program uses subprograms that actually run the tasks. These subprograms also have the ability to create their own tasks. Parashar said the program uses computers as they become available. Computers that go of fline are dropped from the calculations while any newly available computers will be added to the cloud. The bulk of CometCloud was created at The Applied Software Systems Laborator y, a University research center that falls under the pur view of the Rutgers Discover y Informatics Institute, he said. “[University students can] use resources at this ver y large scale to address interesting problems in their work,” he said. “They can learn how to solve problems at a ver y computing intensive and data intensive [level].” Students can also learn how to create cloud-computing systems, he said. The program can help them understand how to do research on a large scale using varied resources.
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improve professional skills. The fair also offered other professional workshops, such as some that focused on meditation, yoga and stress-coping methods. Elizabeth O’Connell, executive director of Rutgers Student Life, said groups used hands-on manipulatives to work through problem-solving exercises. After, they facilitated a conversation about what worked and what did not work, detailing their processes and methods of communication. These problem-solving exercises helped give individuals a better understanding of how to improve their professional roles. “You don’t just have [leadership] skills,” O’Connell said. “You work at them no differently than you improve your math or writing.” Luke Modzier, intern for the office of Leadership and Training, said this week aims to help people refocus what they might know or how they think about leadership. Today’s event, “Great Packaging Challenge,” will be held in Trayes Hall on Douglass campus. Sponsored by Rutgers University Programming Association, the event encourages participants to package more than 20,000 meals for local and global communities that need support, said Modzier, a
School of Arts and Science senior. Modzier said this type of service event promotes leadership. “I think there’s a lot to learn about leadership from serving others,” he said. “There’s something about being in a situation where you’re helping those that are less privileged than yourself — you gain a better understanding of the world at large.” Wow! Talks, held tomorrow at Barnes & Noble College Bookstore on the College Avenue campus, plans to give the Rutgers community an experience similar to TED Talks, according to the Student Life website. Co-sponsored by the Mark Conference, the event will feature six speakers will share their experience on doing what they love. Dawn Fraser, host and producer of Barbershop Stories, will follow by talking about how storytellers, comedians and memoirists tell their stories live on her show while chopping off their hair. “The MacGyver Method: Turning What You Have Into What You Need,” cosponsored by the Rutgers University Programming Association, will host Lee David Zlotoff, writer, producer, and director of the MacGyver TV series, according to the website. He will discuss the MacGyver Method, a three-step process that can help people solve any creative, professional or personal problem.
Top: Rutgers Student Life is hosting “Leadership Week” to develop students’ leadership skills beyond the classroom. Bottom, left to right: Ryan Bissonnette, assistant director of Leadership and Training, Allison Zabady, a School of Arts and Sciences senior, Robyn Ginese, associate director of Leadership and Training and Amanda Sedlmayer, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, participated in team-building activities in yesterday’s event for “Leadership Week” in the Busch Campus Center. RONNIE MENDOZA
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crewmember’s wedding to attend. Other crewmembers and non-crewmembers surrounded the groom, Darrow Koutis, with six holding muskets. Their weapons fit their Revolutionary War characters for reenactment in Shoal Harbor in Monmouth, N.J. “So he couldn’t run,” said John Nelson, the cannon crew’s commanding general who stands out with his three-sided hat. “The Rev. War equivalent of a shotgun wedding.” The crew’s cannon digs into High Point Solutions Stadium’s turf. Although the personnel are different, the crew has operated at Rutgers games since the 1970s. They shoot a weapon that can kill. So two lines of security tape surround their left and right, and two yellow-shirted security guards stand 30 feet from them at the end of each tape. The cannon shoots a 40-foot flame that nobody can see unless shot in pitch darkness. “When it goes off [when it’s pitch black], it will light the stadium up like daytime,” Koutis said. The crew is a trademark of Rutgers football home games. The members all participate in war reenactments and hold strong interests in American and New Jersey histor y. They have to set up the cannon abruptly sometimes, especially between the touchdown shot and the extra-point shot. But during less hectic moments, they can tell stories of ghosts, commanders missing arms, strange fans and plenty of debauchery from football fields to war zones. Much occurs when the cannon is out or when they store it away after football season. Players move on. Sometimes coaches change. Rutgers shifts conferences. Athletic administrations rise and fall. When their former commanding general, Louis Force, died of a heart attack in 1994, Nelson took his position and continued the cannon crew. The surrounding world has changed since the cannon crew began, and much more so since the events they reenact. But the nine members are responsible
for maintaining prominent and little-known history, along with the crew’s steady tradition.
THE WALK-AROUND
When Koutis shares his email address, he tells everyone to put “asshole” in the subject line to ensure he knows who it is. Koutis adopted a philosophy on assholes from his mother. “She says it doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from. We’re all assholes,” Koutis said. “The only difference is some of us are bigger than others. And if you look at everybody in that manner, when somebody proves themselves to be an asshole, you’re not disappointed. And if they prove themselves to be anything but an asshole, they just look that much better.” Nelson gives the crew a respectable placement on the asshole meter. “Somewhere above the middle,” he joked. A fan would not conclude that upon meeting Nelson in his pregame walk-around. As the crew sets up in the Scarlet lot toward the dumpsters beside the stadium, the white-bearded 64-year-old retired contractor walks around the lot for about 10 minutes. Fans are guaranteed to approach him in his Revolutionary War garb, made of wool from 1978 — the newest part of Nelson might be his Sprint flip phone. A fan who appeared to be in his 20s or 30s greeted Nelson, who gave him his prototypical tip of the colonial hat. “Hey, why don’t you shoot whenever Gary Nova throws an interception? I bet you’ll run out of ammo,” the fan laughed. Nelson paused his walk, lowered his eyebrows, curled his lips and stared. Then two surrounding tailgaters started laughing at the fan. Nova ended the game against Temple without an interception. The junior quar terback threw three one week earlier against Houston. Maybe Nelson knew something. “It’s a lot of fun,” Nelson said of the walk-around. “You get to see little kids and big kids and oldaged kids.”
Nelson is used to controlling dangers like 40-foot flames, but he said he still must watch out for flying footballs, beanbags and beer pong balls on his stroll. “I don’t even know what that beanbag game is, but they fly,” Nelson said. “Some of those players aren’t exactly, shall we say, ‘Mr. Sober.’” Kids and adults ask Nelson for pictures with him. He takes out his dull sword for many picture and allows fans to hold it. “They’re nice, and the tailgaters, they like to get pictures,” Nelson said. “You give them a picture. It makes their day, doesn’t cost me a dime or anybody a dime. And the little kids ask, ‘Are you a pirate?’ ‘No. I’m not a pirate.’” When Nelson gets back to his pick-up truck, it is time for the crew to make artillery.
THE ARTILLERY
The one game Koutis missed in about 30 years on the crew was Rutgers’ 2006 victory against Louisville, when fans stormed the field in a match marked “Pandemonium in Piscataway.” Koutis could not miss work for it. He works for Seagrave Fire Apparatus, which makes vehicles and other products — the New York City Fire Department uses it. Once when Koutis died in a reenactment, they let him lay under the cannon’s barrel. The cannon lighting over his “dead” body in the reenactment was more thrilling to him than any sports moment. “I’m an artillerist,” Koutis said. “I’m not a sports fan. Rutgers, forgive me. I do blacksmithing, I do woodworking, my wife and I do candle-dipping demonstrations. It’s more the history of what we do. This is just icing on the cake for me.” Crewmembers arrive about three hours before kickoff and assemble artillery around one-anda-half hours later. They need at least five black-powder cartridges for each game: for when the band comes out, when the band plays “Colonel Rutgers,” when the Scarlet Knights depart from the tunnel, halftime and game’s end. Cartridge assembly takes place in the bed of Nelson’s truck. They like to keep it secretive so no one develops a homemade cannon. “Don’t put the amount down anywhere [for cartridge assembly parts] because nowadays with idiots, you never know what somebody will try,” Koutis said.
Quite simply, they put some black powder in foil and pound it with a form, a wooden tool that Koutis compares to a mold. The members make plenty of extra cartridges because they use them whenever Rutgers scores. The crew only has about a minute between the touchdown shot and extra-point shot. Ayash, the crew’s powder monkey, holds the job of carrying the cartridges to the cannon. She does not want to be responsible for the positions by the cannon, but her job carries dangers when the black powder comes out of the foil. “She probably has one of the most dangerous positions on the gun because she actually has about three pounds of powder on her,” Koutis said. Then the cannon’s four positions — ram, work, vent and linstock — set up firing so it is ready after the point-after attempt sails through. They would set another one up before kickoffs if possible. “We always beat the point after,” Nelson said. “Kickoff, we don’t fire for because the opposing team might flinch and then that’s something illegal.” The ram uses a rammer to push the powder down the breech — the cannon’s tunnel. He also cleans the cannon with a sponge after each shot. The worm uses a tool of the same name to search the cannon for debris after each shot. The vent primes the cannon, and the linstock burns the slowmatch to set it off.
A GOOD ARTILLERIST
There is a universal way to judge a quality artillerist. “Four fingers on each hand and a thumb and it’s all there,” Nelson said. Nelson once had a cannon instructor who lacked an arm. He was teaching artillery in Jockey Hollow in Morristown, N.J. “He lost it when he was loading the cannon,” Nelson said. “He hadn’t cleaned the cannon correctly.” The nine-member cannon crew possesses 72 fingers and 18 thumbs, and they have never seen anyone lose an appendage. It does not stop Nelson’s occasional bad dream. “That is my worst nightmare: the night before a game, I dream that some jackass photographer as we fire will run out to the front of the gun,” he said. Photographers who do not
know better sometimes push through the security guards. The crew will not fire with them in front, but they will light it close enough to graze them with some heat. A young photographer a couple years ago with a tripod pushed one of their security guards. Rutgers scored, and he was so close to the cannon’s firing that he felt the heat on the back of his neck. He turned around to photograph them, and he saw the blast on the extra point. “I was literally watching him and as he was looking at the pictures, he was going [mouth drops],” Koutis said. “At that point, he never pushed the yellow shirt again. He stayed back.” They use a sponge — a cannon-specific sponge on a short wooden stick blackened with powder — to clean the barrel. The sponge is sensitive enough that they can feel anything remaining in the barrel. That is why they occasionally misfire. Sometimes fans boo them when they do, but they would rather that than leave a limb on the field. “There was one time Darrow said, ‘There’s something in the barrel,’” Nelson said. “We did it three times and finally got that piece out.” Darrow found something and possibly prevented injuries and deaths. “We actually had to flush the barrel out to get it, and there was about a quarter-sized piece of aluminum foil flattened that was against the back of the breech,” Darrow said. “I just felt something in the barrel, OK? It’s not like I was imagining.”
ON THE FIELD
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in the game is vivid. The crew’s position has moved throughout the years. When a tall hill was technically inside the stadium, they stood there. “I liked it because no one could bother you,” Ayash said. After the hill was flattened, they moved onto the field, but diagonal from where they are now. They had to angle the cannon outside the stadium since there were so many people walking in that area. Fans disapproved. “We were actually shooting through the fence into a wooden section over there,” Koutis said. “So the sound wasn’t in the stadium, it was outside the stadium. The people in Brown Lot heard it beautifully. The people in the stadium couldn’t hear it at all.” It takes time to move their weapon to a more audible area. “They went and did all the approvals because first it starts with Rutgers,” Koutis said. “Rutgers has to sign off and say, ‘OK, that’s approved.’ Then is has to go to Piscataway. Then it has to go to Middlesex County. Then from Middlesex County, it goes to the state — 50-year process.” An air horn blew as Ayash spoke. “I hate that thing,” she said. “Whoever started that should be shot.” She is OK with the cannon’s blast, though. According to Koutis, the blast is more of a percussive “wham” than the traditional “boom” the closer a person is to the cannon. They carry earplugs and ear protection but never use them. When Nelson communicated with crewmembers 10 feet away from him in the parking lot, he had to repeatedly shout. Nelson said their hearing is fine, though. It might have been the blaring pregame music. They do not use the ear protectors because that interferes with their communication when handling the cannon.
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The crew carries ear protection for anyone who needs it. “We had a little kid who was scared, so we gave his father ear protectors for him,” Nelson said. “And as the game went on, I noticed the ear protectors weren’t on anymore.”
THE GHOSTS
Several crewmembers reenacted par t of the Revolutionar y War last weekend at For t Mif flin in Philadelphia on the Delaware River. Ayash, a 67-year-old retired secretary, saw a figure long ago sitting where they kept the guns as they took a tour of the encasements.
“It was dressed in period clothes. He had his rifle. At first we didn’t realize what we saw, but after ... we realized it was a ghost.” MARIA AYASH Cannon Crewmember
“We walked through, and as we’re walking through we saw a gentleman sitting on a cot and it wasn’t a gentleman,” Ayash said. “It was an actual ghost just sitting there because he looked at us and then he looked away and he was gone.” Ayash said Gettysburg, Pa., and Williamsburg, Va., are two extremely haunted places reenactment locations. She never spoke to a ghost, but said seeing other people wearing war attire fools them into thinking their fellow troops have returned. “It was dressed in period clothes. He had his rifle,” Ayash said of the Fort Mifflin ghost. “At first we didn’t realize what we saw, but after we went through it we realized it was a ghost that was just waiting for his troops to come back and get him, but they never did.” Nelson’s introduction to ghosts came at Shoal Harbor, where an
Indian Seminole from Florida told him about them. “He was walking through the house, he wouldn’t go in one room. Which one? He says, ‘the ghost room,’” Nelson said. “OK. Of course, you get to the door and you go around, ‘Is it really?’ ‘Yeah.’ ‘OK. Can we be nice or are they going to haunt us or what?’ He says, ‘No, they’ll be nice. I asked.’” When Nelson and other members entered the room, there was a candle in the window. Then the candle jumped to another room’s window, he said. This was the room they went to before Koutis’ wedding, and some watched the candle move from ledge to ledge through the door between the rooms throughout the night. “You have to know what to look for or know what to feel because what might affect me might not affect you,” Ayash said. “It depends if you really think about that there could be ghosts.”
UNDERGRADUATE INVOLVEMENT
Before games and during reenactments, the crew always has plenty to eat and drink. Force instilled that, and they carried Force’s traditions after he died. “It used to depend on what Lou liked, but sometimes we’d bring ham, turkey, whatever,” Nelson said. “We’d just cook it right there.” Force was not picky either. “Lou liked anything that he could eat. You never left our camp hungr y,” Nelson said, feet away from a small table with hot chocolate. Someday the crew will need new members, especially younger members who can carry Force’s original traditions. Undergraduates are allowed and encouraged to join the cannon crew, even though they don’t publicize it. “It started out as an undergraduate [program],” said Bob Frish, a 56-year-old who began with the crew as a Rutgers student. “It wasn’t just ROTC, it was open to anybody. ROTC oversaw it because they thought, ‘Oh, a cannon. They can take care of a cannon’ back in the 70s, but it was open to any student who wanted to do it. We’ve had students on the crew before. I don’t think stu-
Top: The Rutgers football cannon crew’s flame extends 40 feet each time it goes off. Bottom: Crewmembers assemble artillery from black powder in the Scarlet lot before every home game, arriving three hours before kickoff. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER dents know they can do it. They just have to volunteer.” Undergraduate participation completely diminished a couple years ago. “The students that we’ve had in the past had an interest in reenacting,” Frish said. “They wanted to get the uniforms anyway and then they would get trained on the different positions on the cannon.” The uniforms are part of the crew’s tradition. Koutis’ wool attire came from Force. “It was my first piece of reenactment clothing, and I wear it religiously,” Koutis said. Nelson and Ayash prefer Revolutionary War reenactments and dress as such for cannon crew be-
cause people are less strict about what they wear. Unlike the Civil War, no one really knows the attire. But their passion for history is what drew them to every Rutgers home game since the 1970s, and the crew longs for younger members who share that interest. That will ensure Force’s traditions carry on and the cannon crew remains a staple. Lack of younger par ticipation worries Ayash about that generation. “It’s a shame because it’s very hard to recruit people to come because they don’t know about it,” Ayash said. “Maybe when this generation is gone, that’s going to be it.”
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Student attempts to fix buffering for streaming By Nis Frome and Tyler Gold Staff Writers
For college students who cannot afford recurring Netflix fees, the joy of finally finding that specific episode of “Game of Thrones” on an illegal website is immediately met with the disappointment of a lagging loading bar. The delay between the time it takes for an online video to stream — essentially download to your computer — and actually start playing is infamously known as buffering. It is the bane of YouTube addicts around the world. But while most sit idly by staring at their computer screens in agony, Vivek Seth decided he was going to do something about it. Seth, a Rutgers Business School sophomore, was inspired to eliminate buffering while watching TV shows over the summer on NovaMov, a video hosting and sharing service similar to the now disbanded megaupload.com. “While waiting for my show to load, I tried opening the same show in a separate tab,” Seth said. “I realized that the rate each video downloaded [at] was pretty much identical.” Seth said he then opened up multiple tabs and the result was the same. The reason for buffering was to limit the speed at which any one person could use the ser vice to ensure band-
width was readily available for other users. “I realized that I could theoretically reach unlimited download speeds by opening multiple tabs of the same video,” Seth said. The initial problem, Seth said, was each video began loading by default from the beginning, so he didn’t have an easy way of usefully compiling his stolen bandwidth. “But I knew that if you were to drag the progress bar halfway through, it would skip downloading the first half of the video, making it much quicker and easier to download the second half,” he said. “So I knew there had to be some protocol that the video player would send to the host to request a file from a specific point only.” It is well-known that YouTube passes the requested time through the URL so the user can manually change the video URL to start downloading from a specific time in the video. Unfortunately for Seth, Novamov was a bit sneakier. “I had to monitor requests to and from the video player to capture and understand the mechanism used to identify a specific time in the video to begin downloading,” Seth said. After he discovered the algorithm used, Seth was able to spoof the requests — essentially mimic the internal processes of Novamov — by manually sending his own code to their ser vers.
This gave him the power to give the video specific and multiple starting points, which would enable him to download multiple parts of a video at the same time, significantly cutting the time it takes to buffer a video. “I knew it made no sense to break the video into equal segments,” he said. “Instead of starting each download at equal inter vals, I put a higher concentration at the beginning of the video, which is where you presumably want to begin watching. This gives more time for the backend to download.” Seth spent weeks devising an algorithm to optimally place different starting points throughout a video to optimize buffering speeds. His workaround functions in a manner similar to BitTorrent, the ubiquitous peerto-peer protocol that powers torrent downloads. “By my calculations, let’s say there’s a video you need to wait five minutes to buffer before playing straight through. You can reduce that time now down to 30 seconds, so the net result is 10 times faster,” he said. One caveat to Seth’s algorithm is that it will not help those who want to continue a show or movie at the halfway point. He shrugged off the problem. “Someone else can take care of that,” he said. For Seth’s “hack” to work, he needed a video player that could play files before they finished downloading. VLC media player,
Vivek Seth, a Rutgers Business School sophomore, was inspired to eliminate buffering while watching TV shows over the summer. COURTESY OF VIVEK SETH a popular and free open-source program, proved just the trick. Seth said he would release his unnamed project as a downloadable extension for Google’s Chrome web browser. The plugin would function when the user visits a supported video-hosting site, and run the necessary logic to download the requested video file, which the user can watch in real time using VLC. He has successfully used his hack to watch videos without annoying lags or buffering, but he said he has no plans to commercialize the project. “It’s more of a proof of concept,” Seth said. “If I were to publicly release it, it would be free and open-source on Github.”
Github is a social network for sharing open-source programming projects and code. “I would imagine that it’s easy to block, but if it’s only used by a small group of people, this could theoretically work for years,” he said. “But even if the powers that be stop it, it would be pretty sweet to have that sort of impact.” Tyler Gold is an intern at The Verge. You can follow him on Twitter @tylergold. Nis Frome is the co-founder of Hublished.com. You can follow him on Twitter @nisfrome. If you have a tech-related story, tip us! Email Tyler at tylergold@me.com and Nis at nisfrome@gmail.com.
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US Filipinos seek information on relatives after devastation LOS ANGELES — The last time Armi Go called her 81-yearold mother in the Philippine city of Tacloban, the rain from the approaching typhoon was so loud they could barely hear each other. Go, a 59-year-old sales clerk in Los Angeles, urged her mother to evacuate, but the elderly woman brushed off Go’s concerns and stayed. Now she’s missing, along with Go’s brother and sister, and thousands of others caught in Friday’s devastating typhoon. Since then, Go has been desperately calling any friend or relative she can think of for news of her family — with no luck. “I was up to 2 o’clock calling,” she said. “We don’t know, we don’t have any news. We are so worried, we don’t know if she is alive or dead. We don’t even know where she is.” Around the United States, Filipino expatriates like Go scrambled to find relatives trapped thousands of miles away and to send money and supplies into an area where nearly all communication and transportation were at a standstill. In Southern California, home to the largest community of Filipinos outside the Philippines, with about 1 million, fundraising efforts from 5K walks to church rummage sales attracted hundreds as word spread about missing loved ones and harrowing tales of survival.
Many worried that their homeland would be permanently crippled by the typhoon, which came just weeks after last month’s 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Bohol that killed 198 people. “The county just suffered a one-two punch. The United States can probably weather that kind of devastation, but not the Philippines. It’s just a poor country,” said Bing de la Vega, who is organizing relief efforts through the nonprofit Philippine Emergency Disaster Relief Organization. “You can’t help but get emotional when you see the magnitude of the devastation.” In New Jersey, expats gathered at Fiesta Grill, a Filipino restaurant in Jersey City, to watch a Philippine news channel via satellite. One woman dabbed her eyes as she took in the devastation. Others boxed up donations of clothes, shoes and canned food at a direct shipping business to send to typhoon victims. Adelia Ramos, 64, said she spent several days trying to reach family. “They are now safe, they are back in our province,” she said, breathing in sharply and waving away tears. “But, the worries that they had, they couldn’t get to our town, they had to walk for seven hours, and sometimes over dead bodies.” — The Associated Press
IN BRIEF TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey wildlife officials are issuing new permits for the state’s next black bear hunt. The six-day hunt is scheduled to take place between Dec. 9 and Dec. 14 in four designated areas. Hunters are limited to only one bear for the season. The deadline to apply for permits was Oct. 15, but the permit claim season began yesterday. Any that go unclaimed will be up for sale on Thursday at license agents and online. This year’s hunt is the fourth consecutive state-sanctioned one. It is part of a plan to control the state’s black bear population, which grew to about 3,000 in the hunting area last year. Hunts were also held in 2003 and 2005. The hunts annually attract protesters. Last year, 6,400 hunters participated. LOWER TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Police in southern New Jersey say a couple injured in a house explosion last week is out of critical condition. Lower Township Police Chief William Mastriana tells Philly. com (http://bit.ly/19XVZSf) that one of his detectives re-
ceived the news from family members about James and Evelyn McCarty. The couple was injured last Thursday when their home exploded. Neighbors helped to pull them out of the rubble, and they were taken to a regional burn center. IRVINGTON, N.J. — Police responding to a domestic violence call shot and killed a man in Irvington yesterday. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office says a woman called police to say her estranged husband had broken into her apartment. Officials say that when they arrived, 30-year-old Abdul Kamal threatened officers and refused to keep one of his hands out of his pocket. Police say they used pepper spray, but when the man continued to make threats, three of them shot at him, firing a total of 15 rounds. He was pronounced dead on the scene. The prosecutor’s office says Kamal had a history of domestic violence and that the shooting by police was found to be justified. The case is still to be presented to a grand jur y after further investigation. — The Associated Press
TYPHOON’S AFTERMATH A woman looks at what is left of her house in the aftermath of
typhoon Haiyan on Nov. 10 in Tacloban City, Leyte, Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan, packing maximum sustained winds of 195 mph, slammed into the southern Philippines and left a trail of destruction in multiple provinces, forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate and making travel by air and land to hard-hit provinces difficult. Around 10,000 people are feared dead in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year. GETTY IMAGES
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ongratulations, students, professors and health well-funded. We believe that there is a direct correlacenters! We did it! And by it, I mean it. But then tion between the size of an institution and the amount of money allocated to specific programs within the again, should this really be that surprising? Condom-maker Trojan released its annual Sexual school. But this still does not prove that the sexual Health Report Card rankings on Wednesday, Nov. health of the individuals that attend the school is up to 6. With its eighth annual account, the company has par with their sexual knowledge. Rutgers University finished in seventh on Trojan’s proved that many schools that have a reputation for exceptional academics also boast plenty of sexual Sexual Health Report Card, and has been in the top smarts. But the real question here is, do these sexual 10 twice before, in 2010 and 2007. Ironically, so-called smarts actually correlate to the sexual health of the “Slutgers” also snagged the No. 1 title on “The Top 10 Sluttiest Colleges” list on barstool.com. It’s also no surstudents on campus? Since 2006, Trojan has conducted the Sexual Health prise that University of Texas, which checked in at No. Report Card, an annual ranking of the sexual health re- 8 on the sexual health report card, also checked in at sources available to students at college and university No. 9 on the sluttiest colleges list. It seems that the better a school’s sexual health, campuses throughout the the more active its students’ United States. Sperling’s BestPlaces firm collates “It seems that the better a school’s sex lives are as well. Of course, all the way at and analyzes data about sexual health, the more active its the bottom of the “sluttiest the student health centers schools” list are schools at 141 universities from the students’ sex lives are as well.” that promote sexual health various Bowl Championthe old-fashioned way, by ship Series conferences. abstinence. This could be Although the accessibility of sexual health resources and information available why Mormon-managed Brigham Young University to students on campus were primary concerns in the is ranked the “worst” with sexual health. Students at ranking process, other factors were highly considered: BYU are forced to sign an abstinence pledge. It’s hard hours of operation, contraceptive availability and fea- to be sexually healthy when you’re not properly edusibility, HIV/STI testing availability, lecture/outreach cated about other forms of contraception. Trojan has certainly been using the past eight years programs for sexual education and sexual assault programs and resources. And colleges that give out con- to promote awareness and spark conversation about the importance of sexual health. Awareness does doms for free get bonus points. Now, one might think that a “Sexual Health Report serve as an agent for change, but society must change Card” would and should include some grades about its way of thinking first. But studies have shown in the the actual health of the students on campus. One past that Rutgers students have the same prevalence might think that these grades would be based on sta- of STIs as other colleges and universities nationwide. tistics, such as the percentage of students at the school If we want to bring real attention to the matter, statiswho have sexually transmitted diseases. In this case, tics must be recorded and presented about the sexual you would be wrong. The schools to snag the top 10 healthiness of the students that attend these “sexually spots on the report card are larger schools that are smart schools.”
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Passage of ENDA necessary for a changing nation STRAIGHT UP AND DOWN MIKE DENIS
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n Thursday, in a landmark decision for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, the Senate passed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would prohibit employers from terminating employees based upon their sexual orientation or gender identification. The mere prospect of such a law is long overdue. While the act will most likely stall in the House of Representatives, it is an important step forward in the enforcement of equality and liberty. It is surprising that many people did not realize before Thursday that in most of the country it was still legal to fire someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identification. Some people would assume that this applied under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibited discrimination based upon race, religion, ethnicity or gender. But the law conveniently leaves out the LGBT community. It is disappointing to understand that it took almost 50 years just to pass an act expanding the civil liberties of the LGBT community through one house of Congress, let alone both. For decades,
the federal government explicitly restricted the rights of the LGBT community — from the implementation of the Social Security Act to the Defense of Marriage Act and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Slowly our nation is “evolving” on the issue. However, the continuation of the policy of employment discrimination is essentially the continuation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the labor system, and essentially establishes a de-facto “Defense of Employment
is it so threatening to hire an LGBT individual? Opponents, such as House Speaker John Boehner, failed to answer these questions, instead opting for the notion that the law will lead to frivolous lawsuits and somehow cost American jobs, of which there is no empirical evidence to indicate. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., wrote on Friday, “Americans should cheer the Senate passage of ENDA this week, and the incredible progress we have made in recent years
“The nation certainly favors this legislation, and the House should act within the interests of our founding values and nation.” Act” for businesses that choose to discriminate against who they hire. It does not matter whether a person is qualified for the job or if a person is exemplary in performance — as long as he or she is gay, there is just cause to terminate at will. It is appropriate that the first three letters of the acronym ENDA spells out “end” because that is what must happen to discrimination against sexual orientation and gender identification. Why is it necessary to discriminate in employment? Shouldn’t someone’s job performance and work ethic be judged rather than who they are or whom they love? Why
on LGBT rights across the country. So Mr. Speaker, what are you waiting for?” It is not that John Boehner is waiting to bring the legislation to the House for a vote — it’s that he just doesn’t care. I cannot imagine Boehner has worked with someone who is gay, but I’ll give him a clue — they’re just like us, hardworking and focused on doing the task at hand. It doesn’t matter who someone is as long as they get the job done. ENDA opponents criticize the act for providing special rights to a certain community, when in actuality ENDA opponents seek to retain special rights for themselves.
It was refreshing to see 10 Republican senators vote in favor of passage, including Sen. Rob Portman of my home state of Ohio. Portman and Sen. Kelly Ayotte also applied a crucial but fair amendment to the act, allowing religious institutions to determine whether or not to hire LGBT individuals. The federal government should not intrude on religious freedoms in private employment hiring. After all, our First Amendment protects religious institutions. We need to protect our founding values of liberty and equality. It is also fair for LGBT individuals to at least have the opportunity to work. The ball is in the court of the House. The nation certainly favors this legislation, and the House should act within the interests of our founding values and nation. ENDA is only a step in moving the country forward on the concepts of liberty and equality. It is 2013, not 1913, and it’s time to move away from stale ideals of restriction. People shouldn’t have to live in fear of being fired for who they are, but rather support differences among their working community. Our country is changing, and it’s time for the House to enforce that change. Mike Denis is a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore majoring in political science with a minor in history. His column, “Straight Up and Down,” runs on alternate Tuesdays.
Hillel apology missing much needed accountability COMMENTARY HADIYA ABDELRAHMAN
On Friday, Andrew Getraer and Ariel Lubow came out with a response to Sara Zayed’s column. As a person mentioned in the article, I feel obligated to respond. I want to start off by rejecting the halfhearted apology I received in the article. Not only did it dismiss incidents of verbal and physical harassment the volunteers and I suffered, but reported them as an isolated incident committed by one person not part of the Rutgers University community. I would like to confirm that as a recipient of such abuse, this is false. “The offending bigot was not a member of the Rutgers Hillel community” as the article puts it, is incorrect. They are students and members of Rutgers Hillel I recognize on campus and in my classrooms. It was also more than one person that harassed the Arab and Muslim volunteers. I was repeatedly called names as I passed through the crowd and was given little to no room as I attempted to retrieve people who were genuinely interested in attending the event. I had to stand silently as a man came inches away from my face and whispered to me that as a woman of my heritage, I cannot possibly un-
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derstand freedom and love because I was never given it. I had to hold back tears as I was forced to reaffirm my Americaness and my humanity while the Douglass Campus Center television screens showed images of people risking their lives for freedom. I was forced to stay quiet when I was pushed and had random hands grab at my scarf. I was outnumbered. I was a minority. I was not safe. No
was only said as a means to distance Hillel from the bigotr y that took place that night, I will not accept this apology. The article also discusses former Hillel president, Sarah Morrison, thanking Pamela Geller and how she had no idea who Geller was when she thanked her. There is more than one video recording in which Sarah thanks Geller for mobilizing people to come protest the event and invites her
“I understand the importance of why Hillel...would want to distance themselves from hateful actions, but they cannot dismiss or dance around the truth of my experiences because I experienced them.” matter how many one-sentence apologies and justifications written three years after the event, I cannot forget the trauma I experienced that night. Getraer was present at the “Never Again for Anyone “ event, and he continuously raised his voice at my fellow student volunteers and me. To shelve this as an external incident not part of Hillel dismisses our experiences of harassment from our Rutgers colleagues. Since I do not find this apology genuine because it
to come speak at Rutgers. Contrar y to the article, the exact words of Sarah in the recording was, “We had a couple of people here who have been [in] touch with you about coming to Rutgers lately and, absolutely, I invite you to come. I heard you at CPAC last year, and I’ll hear you this year [hopefully if you’re there]… We cannot express our gratitude for your help.” It is clear that Sarah was ver y much aware who she was thanking and inviting to speak at Rutgers University.
I will not respond to the rest of the inaccurate statements in the article. I only want to clear up the notion that one person harassed the Muslim and Arab volunteers when it was, in fact, multiple Rutgers students and Hillel members. I understand the importance of why Hillel, an organization that organizes “Days without Hate,” would want to distance themselves from hateful actions, but they cannot dismiss or dance around the truth of my experiences because I experienced them. As a member of Students for Justice in Palestine, I cannot think of a better conclusion than the one Lubow and Getraer ended with. The hope that truth — the truth of experience, of histor y, of occupation, of resistance — prevails, and love — love for those who are continuously dehumanized, killed or kicked out of their homes and nations and forced to become refugees in the various corners of this earth — wins in the end. I think “Days Without Hate” is a universal idea that ever yone can get behind. I just hope these “Days” can include Palestinians and fellow Rutgers students like me. Hadiya Abdelrahman is a School of Ar ts and Sciences senior majoring in Middle Eastern studies and women’s and gender studies.
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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black
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Today’s Birthday (11/12/13). Explore your passions, talents and dreams for the world this year. Learn and study. Assess what you love most, and then increase exposure. Your creativity takes new strides in fertile bursts this autumn and again next spring. Indulging fun like this gets romantic. A partnership levels up next July. Go with love, and the money follows. To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Don’t let technological breakdowns keep you from pursuit of a dream. You can figure out a way around them. Slow down and you notice the details. Let others worry about the big picture. Lay low. Celebrate the small successes. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Take advantage of the developing situation. Friends are there for you, and they help you soar. Return the favor. Your education and experience pay off. Don’t get so excited that you miss important steps. Haste makes waste. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is an 8 — You can handle more than usual as you gain new responsibilities. Don’t throw your money around just because you have it or because there’s more work coming in. Have a private dinner with a friend. Share valuable information. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Recognize the value of the past and lessons taught. Don’t fear the future and lessons ahead. Bring some pebbles into the forest to find your way back ... if you’re so inclined as to return. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — You find satisfaction in staying busy now. The money is there. Figure an honest approach to provide well for family. Infuse it with your arts. Share something you’ve been withholding. A beneficial development knocks. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Your efforts and dedication are appreciated. Sure, there may be some bumps along the way and you may think you can do better, but it’s best to focus on accomplishments. They took something. Reinforce partnership.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Discuss money now; you have a better chance of making more. It requires dedication and motivation. Moving furniture around or renovating the house could be tempting, but it’s best to chop wood and carry water now. Get your chores done first. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Your artistic side itches to get out and express. You have a lot to say, so sit with it and articulate. You’ll get farther when you play for the fun of it. Learn from another’s financial mistakes. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Your wit and intellect are honed and sharp. Use them to your advantage. Pay attention to what’s really being said, and avoid an argument. Learn from a wise friend. Choose the item that will last the longest. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Your talent impresses others, but watch out for jealousies. Passions can get intense. Friends offer good advice and help you find a truth. You can afford to save. You already have what you need. Share delicious food and appreciation. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Curtail impulsive spending. Focus on making new income and preparing invoices instead. New information points out the weakness of the competition. Learn from their mistakes. Provide solid value at a good price. Promote the value. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 9 — You’re on fire and you know it. The hurdles in the way are small for you. Keep your temper anyway. Use it to get into action. Accept coaching from your partner. Inhale deeply as you exercise.
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Freshman 125-pounder Scott DelVecchio posted a 7-1 record Sunday at the Binghamton Open en route to a third-place finish. ENRICO CABREDO / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
OPEN Hrymack, DelVecchio finish 7-1, third for Rutgers at Binghamton Open he rallied six straight victories, including a 9-5 decision against CorGoodale also remembers that nell’s Steve Congenie, to capture bout, as he and Lawson traded third in his weight class. Hr ymack finished the open words after Lawson saluted the RAC crowd, following the raising 7-1, continuing his impressive start to the young season. Hr yof his hand. He made it clear that was not mack secured a crucial pin Nov. on his mind Saturday when Smith 3 against Hofstra to lead Rutgers had another chance to defeat Law- to a 22-21 dual victor y against son, who Goodale recruited to the Pride. “It’s huge,” Goodale said. compete at Rutgers. “I didn’t even think about it “We need production out of that [Sunday],” Goodale said. “I think weight to be successful and he’s our guys and our staff try to win been more than that. It’s only every time out, so it would have two weeks in, but he’s pinning been nice to get that win because people and scoring bonus points and that’s he is highly awesome. ranked, so I was He’s not just thinking more in that regard than “I think our guys and staff winning, he’s last year.” try to win every time out, winning big.” Smith was so it would have been nice K n i g h t the Scarlet Knights’ high- to ... win because [Jimmy Note: Goodale senior est finisher, Lawson] is highly ranked.” said 133-pounder but was not Vincent Delthe only playSCOTT GOODALE lefave will er to impress Head Coach be ready for Goodale in RutRutgers’ dual gers’ first open match Sunday of the season. Freshmen Scott DelVecchio against Boston University. Dellefave missed the past and Corey Stasenko respectively placed third and fourth in their two weeks with a wrist injur y, and Goodale said the Toms weight classes. DelVecchio, a 125-pounder, River, N.J., native will start capped a 7-1 weekend with a against the Terriers barring 5-2 decision against Bingham- a setback. “He’s good to go,” ton’s David White, who defeated DelVecchio, 4-3, in the first round. Goodale said. Stasenko, a 141-pounder, finished For updates on the Rutgers fourth after a 4-2 showing. Sophomore 197-pounder wrestling team, follow Bradly DereHayden Hrymack suffered a fall chailo on Twitter @Bradly_D. For in the second round against Penn general Rutgers sports updates, folState’s Morgan Mcinstosh. But low @TargumSports.
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BID Rutgers one of three AAC programs to receive spot in 64-team tournament field continued from back Rutgers will travel to West Virginia on Saturday for the opening round of the tournament. “I was fine with the selection and I’m excited for the game, but you can think about it a couple of dif ferent ways,” Crooks said. “For us, we were obviously planning on winning the conference championships because there is never a 100 percent cer tainty to get the atlarge bid. The initial thought is we were ver y excited to get back into the NCAAs.” The Knights have some experience against the Mountaineers. The teams played an exhibition Aug. 13, when Rutgers lost, 3-0, on the road. “I was very happy with how we performed [against the Mountaineers],” Crook said. “Going back to their place having already played there gives us an edge. There is three months of season since then, so we will still have to base how we prepare off of recent film.” In that contest, West Virginia made the most of its shots on goal, converting all three attempts. It also outshot the Knights, 9-6. Since it was just a scrimmage, Rutgers should not take much from a loss where every player who traveled received time. “West Virginia and Rutgers go back a long way and we know the staff very well, as they do us,” Crooks said. “It’s a good rivalry.”
The Knights were one of three AAC teams to make the tournament. Central Florida — the AAC Tournament champions — claimed the third seed in its portion of the bracket and will face St. John’s. UCF finished the regular season 12th in RPI after winning the AAC championship. Louisville gained an at-large bid too and will host its first-round game against Illinois State. For the season, the Cardinals finished 20th in RPI despite finishing third in the AAC Tournament. Rutgers entered the NCAA Tournament with impressive play jumping it to 33rd in RPI. The Knights have not allowed a goal in their last two matches and are currently on a four-game winning streak. Rutgers’ postseason run has the Knights feeling prepared for the NCAA Tournament. “I think what happened this past weekend has prepared us very well for the next step,” Crooks said. “We got clean sheets against two of the highest-scoring teams in the country. We really grew as a team, even in these latter stages of the season. It is unfortunate that we lost [Sunday], but when we work as hard as we did, good things can happen.” 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 led the Knights to an at-large bid for their third NCAA Tournament appearance in five seasons. DAPHNE ALVA
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utgers men’s basketball junior power forward Kadeem Jack became the AAC’s first Player of the Week. Jack doubled his previous career high in points, recording 30 along with 12 rebounds Friday night in the Scarlet Knights’ 9284 victory. Jack shot 12-of-18 from the field, including three dunks. He also connected on six of seven free throw attempts. It was Jack’s second-career double-double. The Knights’ next home game is Thursday night against Yale.
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freshman goalkeeper David Greczek made the College Soccer News’ National Team of the Week after impressive play recently for the Scarlet Knights. Greczek recorded six saves in the AAC Tournament play-in game Friday night against Cincinnati. Greczek followed that with nine stops, including a penalty kick save, in a 1-0 upset victor y against top-seeded Louisville. The shutout against the Cardinals marked Greczek’s fifth this season. He has 96 total saves this season and averages 5.1 saves per game.
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basketball coach Rick Pitino reinstated suspended forward Chane Behanan yesterday, according to ESPN. Pitino announced Oct. 17 that Behanan would be suspended indefinitely for a violation of school policy, but did not specify what rule he had broken. The coach said Monday that Behanan met the conditions for his return and will dress for tonight’s contest against Hofstra. Behanan missed the Cardinals’ season opener Saturday against College of Charleston. Behanan played a key role in the Cardinals’ title run last season, recording 15 points and 12 rebounds in Louisville’s 82-76 win against Michigan State in the National Championship game. Pitino also announced senior for ward Luke Hancock will dress in tonight’s matchup against Hofstra after missing the preseason with an Achilles’ injur y. The 6-foot-6 for ward averaged 8.1 points per game last season for the Cardinals, including 2.6 rebounds and one steal per contest.
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Granderson turned down the New York Yankees’ qualifying offer yesterday and will become a free agent, according to ESPN. Second baseman Robinson Cano and pitcher Hiroki Kuroda also turned down Yankees offers. If any of the three sign contracts with other franchises, the Yankees will receive a sandwich pick between the first and second rounds of the 2014 MLB draft. Granderson played in just 61 games last season after breaking his forearm. He batted .229 with seven home runs and 15 RBIs.
Blazers stay close behind Rutgers, even in early going, with 37-31 halftime deficit continued from back poorly. Four Blazers scored at least 14 against the Knights, as forward C.J. Washington led with 18. Rutgers’ full-court offense makes consistent defense difficult. But head coach Eddie Jordan knows ways the Knights can execute that offense without compromising defense. “We’ve got to learn how to pinch in, shrink the floor and keep people out of the paint, keep people from cutting in the paint, from posting in the paint,” Jordan said after winning against FAMU. “We’ve got to protect our paint better.” Six Knights scored at least 8, but none made the difference against UAB. Junior guard Myles Mack and senior wing J.J. Moore led with 12 points each. Jack recorded 11 points, three rebounds and three blocks. His numbers were respectable — his newfound mid-range shot was also effective — but the biggest difference was personal fouls.
The Queens native fouled only once against FAMU, but he fouled out with 35 seconds remaining against the Blazers. UAB remained pesky early in the second half. A 3-pointer from wing Jordan Swing made it only a 53-52 Rutgers lead before Jordan called a timeout. The Blazers took a 54-53 lead with a tip-in from guard Robert Williams. Rutgers, for the second straight game, failed to enter halftime with a significant lead. The Knights only led the Blazers, 35-31. Junior wing Craig Brown gave the Knights slightly more leverage with a 3-pointer with 54 seconds left in the half — the final scoring of the period. Jack showed his previous 30-point, 12-rebound performance might not have been a fluke with 9 points in the first half to lead Rutgers’ scoring. But Rutgers faded after its 3731 halftime lead, and the biggest
Junior forward Kadeem Jack’s 11 points and three rebounds were respectable, but not quite like his season debut. LUOYE WANG / FILE PHOTO / NOVEMBER 2013
factor overall was UAB’s 54-26 advantage in rebounds. The Knights have work to do before they return to the Louis Brown Athletic Center on Thursday against Yale. Jordan’s message from after the season debut did not quite translate, as UAB scored 79. “I try to give a visual to our guys,” Jordan said after the victory against FAMU. “We can’t have holes in the
defense, and when the offense looks at the paint, he’s got to see five jerseys. If he sees two jerseys in the hole because two guys are way out on the perimeter defending their guy, that’s a hole in the defense.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s basketball team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @JoshBakan. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
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November 12, 2013 FOOTBALL JAMES PRACTICES FULLY FOR FIRST TIME SINCE SEPT. 21 INJURY
James hopes to improve Rutgers’ running game By Greg Johnson Associate Sports Editor
After lighter workouts all last week, Paul James practiced fully for the first time Sunday night since his Sept. 21 lower leg injury. The sophomore running back’s participation in two hours of drills instilled more confidence in Rutgers head football coach Kyle Flood that James will be available this week’s game against Cincinnati. Last week Flood said the Scarlet Knights would thud James — contact without tackling to the ground — before playing him, but that has yet to happen. “When you get to this part of the year, you don’t really bang too much, but we weren’t in pads [Sunday] night,” Flood said. “But he did all the things we would ask him to do, and I don’t think it’ll be the contact that’ll be an issue.” With freshman running back Justin Goodwin listed as doubtful for Cincinnati with a hamstring injury, James may need to shoulder a significant workload right away. If that means 30 carries, James feels up to the task. “I definitely have no problem with it,” James said. “I’m just going to go out there and play no matter what. It’s not really on my mind — what I’m going to do or how much I’m going to do. It’s just going out there and playing.” James insists there is nothing he cannot physically do since the
injury in terms of cutting, agility and power moves. In some ways, James feels he will be fresher after missing four games. “Because my body’s been resting with coming off the injury, I had to work to get back, but also my other parts of my body have been rested not taking any hits,” James said. “So I definitely feel like I’m rested.” James said one obstacle was refreshing his memory of offensive concepts, despite minimal changes to schemes since his departure. The Glassboro, N.J., native is used to overcoming injuries by now. As a senior in high school, James dealt with a nagging high ankle sprain. Then he got injured during this year’s spring practices. Still the Knights’ leading rusher with 573 yards, James pressures himself to continue averaging 143.2 yards per game upon his return. “You’ve definitely got to pick up where you left off because you’ve got to be consistent,” James said. “I’m trying to be as consistent as possible. Throughout the first couple games, I was consistent there. I’m trying to come back and be the same way.” The Knights are anxious to have him back in any capacity. For junior quarterback Gary Nova, it takes pressure off the passing game and makes the entire offense more dynamic. “It’s just another weapon,” said Nova. “Obviously, you
Sophomore running back P.J. James is listed probable for Saturday against Cincinnati. He missed four games this year with a lower leg injury. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER / SEPTEMBER 2013 saw what he can do when he’s healthy, but he adds that big play out of the backfield like Justin [Goodwin] and Savon [Huggins]. He brings another dimension that we are more than happy to have back.” More than a luxury, James may be necessary against Cincinnati.
The Bearcats boast the nation’s sixth-best run defense at 96.2 yards per contest. From what he sees on film, James attests Cincinnati’s success up front to size, experience and spatial awareness. The sophomore would not have his return any other way.
“I’m ready for it,” James said. “I want them.” For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @GregJohnsonRU. For general Rutgers spor ts updates, follow @TargumSpor ts.
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SWIMMING & DIVING KNIGHTS BEGIN SEASON 4-0
Rutgers Football Injury Report for Cincinnati Player OL Brandon Arcidiacono FB Sam Bergen WR Jeff Gignac OL Bryant Gross-Armiento DL Sebastian Joseph DT Kenneth Kirksey TE Taylor Marini DL Julian Pinnix-Odrick CB Lew Toler C Betim Bujari RB Justin Goodwin DT Darius Hamilton SS Lorenzo Waters WR Leonte Carroo DT Issac Holmes RB P.J. James OL Brian Leoni DE Jamil Merrell WR Quron Pratt
Injury Shoulder Ankle Hamstring Hamstring Ankle Tricep Shoulder Knee Arm Ankle Hamstring Shoulder Ankle Lower body Elbow Lower leg Ankle Foot Lower body
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One of conference’s top o-lines to visit Knights By Josh Bakan Sports Editor
The stats for Cincinnati’s offensive line, which holds an AAC-low nine sacks allowed this season, mean little to Steve Longa. “We can’t look at those stats and be like, ‘They’ve only given up nine sacks. We can’t blitz. We’ve got to play more base defense,’” the redshirt freshman linebacker said yesterday. “This defense blitzes a lot. That’s basically what we’ve got to do in this game: a lot of blitzing and a lot of pressure on the quarterback.” The Rutgers football team faces an o-line Saturday that also opened the path for the Bearcats’ conference-leading 179.3 rushing yards per game. Head coach Kyle Flood said its success begins with experience, as they return four starters from last year. Redshirt freshman center Deyshawn Bond is the only new face. “They’re physical and then I think their scheme creates space,” Flood said. “Ultimately offensive football is about creating space and defensive football is about dictating daylight and taking that space away.” Returning starters allows the line to implement more elaborate schemes, Longa said. The Scarlet Knights offensive line remains in an earlier stage of that development. Flood switched around last year’s starters, and it took them time to adjust. The Knights surrendered 22 sacks this season after allowing none in their last two games. “You worr y about yourself,” Longa said of one’s first year in a unit. “But now as a veteran, you know what the guys next to you are going to do. You’ve already got the chemistr y and you guys can execute the plays a lot easier.”
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Non-season-ticket holders can purchase 2014 season tickets next Friday at 9 a.m. Rutgers will host Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin and Indiana next year, but season tickets will only increase from $3 to $5 dollars per game. Athletic Director Julie Hermann is prepared for high opponent attendance, including fans who will purchase season tickets and just go to that one game their team plays. “The single-game pricing for most of our Big Ten [games] will be high, and the reason we do that is we’re not going to let [opposing fans] buy up a bunch of single-game tickets,” Hermann said. “And if they do that, we’re going to make some revenue off that, which is my charge to do.” Hermann must balance selling the Big Ten transition and clarifying that Rutgers’ lone AAC season is not a waste. She said this season paves Rutgers’ path to the new conference, including for smaller sports. The Rutgers women’s soccer team made the AAC Tournament finals before losing in a shootout Sunday. The Rutgers men’s soccer team made the AAC semifinals after upsetting top-seeded Louisville. “You’re not going to be able to convince any coach or any student-athlete that playing for any conference title, no matter what conference you’re in, isn’t a huge deal,” she said.
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yesterday about the starting kicker competition, but sophomore Kyle Federico seems to hold a slight edge over sophomore Nick Borgese. “As of [Sunday], Kyle had the better practice,” Flood said. “But the decision, we’ll make it a little bit later in the week.” Flood said last Monday their chances to start are 50/50. For updates on the Rutgers football team, follow Josh Bakan on Twitter @JoshBakan. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
Early wins provide momentum By Sean Stewart Staff Writer
Following a dominant performance this weekend, the Rutgers swimming and diving team finds itself right where it expected to be. The Scarlet Knights (4-0) recorded several season-best times Friday and Saturday at the home quad meet, where they defeated longtime rival Villanova. But head coach Phil Spiniello remains levelheaded despite the strong start. “I think our expectations for this point in the season have been met, but we still have a long way to go,” Spiniello said. “We’re laying the foundation the first three months of the season … but we have a lot of season left and a lot of expectations and goals to be met.” The Knights started the season with aspirations of getting into swimming shape. They produced a strong showing Oct. 19 at the Sonny Werblin Invite to finish with several top-five finishes. Rutgers continued full-force training with intense practices every day. The Knights competed in their first dual meet Oct. 25, winning 12 of 16 events to defeat Wagner handily. Now Rutgers is slowly entering the tapering phase of the season. The fierce training will become progressively less intense, allowing the swimmers time for their bodies to recover. The results are significant time drops as the stage is where the swimmers expect to reach their maximum times. While the Knights do not expect to be at their ver y best until the AAC Championships in Februar y, senior captain Allyson Perrotti believes the Frank
Senior Allyson Perrotti is one of the many swimmers head coach Phil Spinello said has had success early in the season for RU. EDWIN GANO
Elm Invite on Nov. 22 will see strong results. “We’re coming down a lot, not as much as we will be for AAC, but more than we would for other meets,” Perrotti said. “So I think it won’t be our best times, but it will definitely be season-best, so it should set us up in good position for the AAC.” One Knight who already reached top form this season is senior diver Nicole Scott. Scott broke a six-year-old school record in the 3-meter dive and remains undefeated this season. The Toronto native spends her practices normally working on progression in harder dives. Before meets, the Knights usually go through each of their dives three times on each board to prepare. Scott credits head diving coach Fred Woodruff for part of her success. “Fred’s a really great coach,” Scott said. “Because there’s only
three of us this year, it’s really easy and we have been able to work a lot on the specific details of our dives. And after each dive, he gives us feedback on how to improve it.” Despite strong results for the Knights so far, the ultimate goal is to succeed in the AAC Championships. Rutgers finished fifth last season at the Big East Championships and wants to improve on a season with several school records broken. But the conferences shift does not mean a drop in talent. Defending Big East champion Louisville followed the Knights into the AAC, while Southern Methodist ranks among the nation’s top 25, according to CollegeSwimming.com. The Knights’ goal is to reach that level of success. “One of our program’s goals is to rank nationally,” Spiniello said. “So to be able to swim and dive against that level of competition, we’re absolutely motivated.”
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Quote of the Day “We can’t look at those stats and be like, ‘They’ve only given up nine sacks. We can’t blitz. We’ve got to play more base defense.’” — Rutgers football redshirt freshman linebacker Steve Longa on Cincinnati’s offensive line
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WRESTLING
Smith places second during weekend open By Bradly Derechailo Associate Sports Editor
Rutgers received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament yesterday for the second time in as many seasons. The Knights travel to West Virginia on Saturday to play the Mountaineers in the first round. TIAN LI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Billy Smith and Jimmy Lawson met on the mat before Saturday’s heavyweight final at the 2013 Jonathan Kaloust Bearcat Open, formerly known as the Binghamton Open. Lawson registered a reversal on Smith within the last three seconds in overtime last season, capturing a 3-2 decision to cap the Nittany Lions’ 34-0 victory against Rutgers at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. Smith forced Lawson into another overtime period, but failed to capture a victory against last year’s NCAA qualifier. “I’m glad he went after it,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “That’s what Jimmy was waiting for, he was waiting for Billy to take a shot. That’s what Jimmy does a good job with: he waits for someone to go after his legs, but Billy went after it anyway.” With the match tied, 1-1, Smith attempted an attack at Lawson’s legs, but Lawson produced a takedown of Smith to secure a 3-1 victor y in the heavyweight championship bout. Although Smith’s grapping impressed Goodale, he wanted Smith to win for obvious reasons. Smith lost in a similar fashion the last time they met, with Smith producing an escape against Lawson in overtime to go up, 2-1, on the Toms River, N.J., native. But Lawson registered a reversal with seconds remaining to stun the nearly 4,000 fans in attendance. See open on Page 15
RU collects at-large NCAA bid By Tyler Karalewich Staff Writer
A penalty kick loss to Central Florida in the AAC finals forced the Rutgers women’s soccer team to gain an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament to continue its season.
But with prospects of continuing their season left to a selection committee, the Scarlet Knights were unsure about their fate after their loss. “I feel bad for the players for how hard they work,” said head coach Glenn Crooks after the loss Sunday. “This is a team that is
very much together and we are going to have to await 4:30 [Monday] to see if we get a bid.” The NCAA selection committee chose to include Rutgers in the 64-team field — the Knights’ third appearance in five years. See bid on Page 16
MEN’S BASKETBALL ALABAMA-BIRMINGHAM 79, RUTGERS 74
Rutgers’ defense fails to gain traction By Josh Bakan Sports Editor
Sophomore power for ward Kadeem Jack accumulated 30 points and 12 rebounds in his season debut, but he did not face anyone as tall as him.
Alabama-Birmingham center Fahro Alihodzik is only an inch taller than the 6-foot-9 Jack. But slight differences meant ever ything in UAB’s 79-74 victor y last night against the Rutgers men’s basketball team. Alihodzik sunk a jump shot with 2:50 left to create a 71-69 UAB lead, and the Blazers
scored four more unanswered to sustain their lead in Birmingham, Ala. Junior wing Malick Kone set up UAB’s opportunity by missing two free throws beforehand. Line in Rutgers’ 92-84 victory Friday against Florida A&M, the Knights defended See Traction on Page 17
EXTRA POINT
nba SCORES
Atlanta Charlotte
103 94
Orlando Boston
105 120
Memphis Indiana
79 95
Cleveland Chicago
81 96
San Antonio Philladelphia
109 85
Toronto Houston
104 110
DAVID GRECZEK,
freshman goalkeeper, was named yesterday to College Soccer News’ National Team of the Week. His 15 saves last weekend helped the Rutgers men’s soccer team advance to the semifinals of the AAC Tournament.
Sophomore heavyweight Billy Smith lost in the finals to a familiar Penn State foe. THE DAILY TARGUM / DECEMBER 2012
Knights schedule
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL MEN’S BASKETBALL
VOLLEYBALL
MEN’SOCCER
at Northeastern
vs. Yale
vs. Connecticut
vs. USF
Tomorrow, 12 p.m. Boston, Mass.
Thursday, 7:30 p.m. RAC
Friday, 7 p.m. College Ave. Gym
Friday, TBA Frisco, Tex. (AAC Semifinals)