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Rutgers to construct parking lot on Skelly Field By Danielle Gonzalez Staff Writer
Skelly Field on Cook campus will soon become a parking lot to accommodate for the construction of the new Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health. KARL HOEMPLER
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Students participate in novel writing month
Fox found in U. goat pen tests rabies positive
By Katie Park Staff Writer
By Sabrina Szteinbaum Correspondent
A fox found in New Brunswick in the vicinity of College Farm Road and Route 1 tested positive for rabies Wednesday, according to a statement from the Middlesex County Office of Health Services. This is the 14th rabid animal reported within Middlesex County for 2013 and one of the first rabid animals to be reported in New Brunswick, according to the statement. The last reported rabid animal was tested positive for the virus in Metuchen last week, according to nj.com. The fox appeared to be lethargic and sick, and was found in a goat pen at Rutgers University, according to the statement. Rutgers farm staff captured the fox and a Rutgers veterinarian later euthanized it. The goats in the pen near the area where the fox was found were vaccinated and placed under a 45day observation period, according to the statement. The Middlesex County Office of Health Ser vices continues to monitor rabies cases within the county, according to the statement. Residents should report wild animals showing signs of unusual behavior to their local Animal Control Officer.
Rutgers plans to proceed with construction of a parking lot on Skelly Field despite an existing controversy over whether or not the development would be necessary. Students and faculty involved in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Governing Council have argued the construction would destroy wetlands and claim that the University community can park in existing designated spaces, according to a previous article published by The Daily Targum. According to a letter of interpretation from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection issued on June 26, freshwater wetlands and/or state open waters are not present within the limit of disturbance of the site plan for the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health and its parking lot expansion. The letter did note that freshwater wetlands exist on the property outside of the proposed area of construction. NJDEP has determined that the wetland located south of the existing parking lot onsite is a swale of ordinary resource value.
Priya Sundaram, a representative from NJDEP, explained that swales, low tracts of marshy land, are an ordinary resource value, and the one by Skelly Field does not have a buffer. “Whatever they are doing, they are not going into that swale,” Sundaram said. A buf fer is usually located between the wetland and land close to the wetland, Sundaram said. It is used to protect the wetland by letting people approach it without getting too close to the actual wetland. “When it comes to swales, they really don’t need a buffer,” she said. “I guess because they’re usually man-made and used for drainage, or they may just be a natural depression. It may not have any significant value, so that is why there is no buffer against the swales.” Sundaram said any building in the designated area would not affect the swale or disturb any of the surrounding area in any way. E.J. Miranda, director of Rutgers’ Media Relations, said the expansion of the existing parking lot is
Aramis Gutierrez, director of Rutgers Future Scholars, spoke at “Mission: Possible,” a convention that started a discussion on college access for students. YESHA CHOKSHI / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
November signals the retreat inside to escape the cold, and hundreds of thousands of individuals use the move indoors to participate in “National Novel Writing Month.” “NaNoWriMo” was established in 1999 to encourage aspiring novelists to write a full novel of no less than 50,000 words in one month. The program began Nov. 1 and ends on Nov.
30 at 11:59 p.m., according to its website. The novels submitted to the website at the end of the month are never read by the administrators of NaNoWriMo, according to its website. In fact, they are deleted immediately after they are submitted. Despite this, some participants have continued writing after the program and had their novels published, such as Sara Gruen with her See MONTH on Page 4
Convention looks at ways to improve college access By Sabrina Szteinbaum Correspondent
During his childhood, Steven Perry did not realize his family was poor, nor did he understand some of his experiences were atypical. At the age of 10 or 11, Perry said he was searching for a wrench to build a bicycle when he walked in on someone cutting up cocaine. He thought, “oh that’s not good,” found the wrench and left. “That was it,” he said. Perry, the keynote speaker at the “Mission: Possible” conference, organized by the Rutgers Future Scholars program, said the way
to get disadvantaged students to college is to stop making excuses about poverty. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, a grant foundation, provided the money for RFS to share information about the program in a three-day conference, according to an article previously published in The Daily Targum. The RFS program aids disadvantaged, academically ambitious high school graduates in gaining admittance to colleges and universities, while providing tuition funding to those students who choose to attend Rutgers. See convention on Page 5
PRESENTING POSTIVELY Angelie Patel, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore presented at Rutgers Student Life’s “Wow! Talks & Storytelling Workshop” for “Leadership Week” at the Barnes and Noble at Rutgers. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
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Rutgers Gardens presents a Farmer’s Market at 11 a.m. at the Hort Farm on Cook campus. The market features locally grown and made fruits, vegetables, cheeses, breads and meats. The Rutgers Film Co-op, the New Jersey Media Arts Center and the Rutgers University Program in Cinema Studies presents New Jersey Film Festival selection “Crude” and at 7 p.m. in the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art 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, staff and alumni and $15 for students. The play will run until Sunday, Nov. 24, from Tuesday until Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and on Sunday at 2 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 16
The Mason Gross School of the Arts presents “Opera at Rutgers: Britten’s ‘The Rape of Lucretia’” at 2 p.m. at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for faculty, staff and alumni and $5 for students.
Tuesday, Nov. 19
Rutgers Department of Recreation and Community Development hosts a free “Trivia Bowl” at 8:30 p.m. in the Cook/Douglass Recreation Center. Teams that register before 11/18 receive 500 bonus points.
Wednesday, Nov. 20
Rutgers Sinfonia performs at 7:30 p.m. in the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for faculty, staff and alumni and $5 for students. The Rutgers University Programming Association presents a screening of an anthology of all of Pixar’s short films at 3 p.m. in the Busch campus center. The event is free and food will be provided.
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U. baking club creates delicacies for charity By Shawn Smith Correspondent
The Red Lion Café in the basement of the Rutgers Student Center every other Friday smells like a mixture of freshly baked cookies and waffles. Inside the Red Lion kitchen, the Rutgers Student Bakers are hard at work, whipping up treats for their next bake sale. Serena Mueller, president of RSB, said the club meets biweekly to discuss new recipes and baked goods. The club bakes their goods on Fridays, then sells them on the following Monday. “This past week, we had a savory baking day, so we did scones and bread,” said Mueller, a School of Engineering senior. “We’ve done breakfast-themed stuff … bagels, donuts and cinnamon rolls.” They sell the goods they bake for charity, she said. One of the more popular items is the cake shooter, cake in a shot glass with the club’s logo on it. “Mini cakes in shot glasses are one of our big, big items that we sell. People really love that,” she said. “Our next bake sale is Monday, November 25, and it will be pie-themed. We’re going to have apple pie shooters in the little glasses.” Jessica Gonzalez, a Rutgers graduate, started the club during her sophomore year at the University. She wanted a way to be able to bake while also serving the community. “There were no internship opportunities with Dining Services,” she said. “I was also hosting a food blog at the time, and some of my friends wanted to learn baking from me. So I came up with the idea to start a baking club with a friend.” After meeting the requirements set by Student Life to start a new club on campus, Gonzalez said she had to wait throughout winter break for a response to
The Rutgers Student Bakers organization bakes cake shots, above, to raise money for No Kid Hungry — Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale. The club bakes in the basement of the Rutgers Student Center every other Friday. COURTESY OF SERENA MUELLER be approved or rejected. She was finally contacted and asked to come in and pitch the idea again to Student Life. Initially, Gonzalez said her advisor told her she was going to reject the idea of the club, based on the difficulties of logistics and food safety when starting a cooking club on campus. But Gonzalez came in with answers for every issue and question Student Life had, and the organization was approved. From its humble beginnings in the food labs at Davidson Hall on Busch campus, the club was a success, Gonzalez said. After a food vendor left the basement of the RSC, the location was offered to the club, given a member would get ServSafe certified.
According to the Ser vSafe website, they deliver top-quality training to restaurant and foodser vice professionals and are the premiere provider of educational resources. “The Ser vSafe Food Safety Training Program leads the way in providing current and comprehensive educational materials to the restaurant industr y. More than 4 million foodser vice professionals have been certified through the Ser vSafe Food Protection Manager Certification Exam, which is accredited by the American National Standards Institute and Conference for Food Protection,” according to the website. After being given access to the Red Lion kitchen, Gonzalez
was told she would need to become Ser vSafe certified. She took an online course and an exam, and her certification is good for five years. The kitchen access has helped the club boost production, as they now sell their baked goods to raise money for No Kid Hungry — Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale, a children’s hunger charity. “We sell our baked goods to raise money for children’s hunger. People really become perceptive to the concept,” she said. “In our first Rutgers Day, we made more than any other organization. We brought in $800 for eight hours.” According to the No Kid Hungry website, one in five Ameri-
can children are food insecure, meaning they do not know where their next meal is coming from. No Kid Hungry is campaigning to end childhood hunger by connecting kids to the healthy food they need. For last year’s Rutgers Day, Gonzalez said RSB raised about $1,000. After Gonzalez graduated in May, she said Mueller took over as president of the organization and became ServSafe certified. The kitchen in the Red Lion is considered a commercial kitchen and is held to the same standards as a fully operational restaurant. “This is a great organization, it brings smart, nice people together for a great cause,” Gonzalez said.
RUSA passes bill on transgender preferred name use By Louis Cabrera Staff Writer
If the pronouns “he” and “she” were glossed over by Rutgers’ faculty and students before, Trans*Mission aims to make them, and other transgender issues, more visible to the University community. Trans*Mission is the first ever Rutgers transgender group. Founders Jamie DiNicola, president of Trans*Mission, and Natasha Payano, treasurer, presented a bill to the Rutgers University Student Assembly yesterday to implement a preferred name option for transgender students. It was passed unanimously. “I teach a first-year interest group, and let’s say I want to post an announcement on Sakai,” said DiNicola, School of Arts and Sciences senior. “It attaches my birth name to the entire email even though all my students know me as Jamie.”
According to the bill, transHis bir th name appears and you wear these clothes so gender individuals are discrimin chat rooms and discussion you’re female.” The bill pushes a policy to sim- inated against both inside and boards on Sakai, which he finds so problematic he refuses plify and protect the often-mis- outside Rutgers by policies that understood preferred name and hinder individuals from presentto par ticipate. According to the “Preferred pronoun process in the Univer- ing their identified genders. “TransName Acgender stucommodadents should tions for “All you have to do is not mess up not have to Trans* Idenjeopardize tifying Stua pronoun.” their safety dents” bill, and comfort Rutgers stuJAmie Dinicola by exposing dents cannot President of Trans*Mission their transreplace their gender idenbir th names tity to faculty with a preferred alias on Sakai, Black- sity. Trans*mission wants the or to other students during roll board and University learning student body to become more call, and other business within inter face systems unless it has active and aware of the concerns the class,” the bill said. Pavel Solokov, president of transgender communities face, been legally changed. “It’s not necessarily dis- said Payano, a School of Arts and RUSA, said if it makes students’ lives easier, he is all for it. crimination as it is ignorance, Sciences junior. Solokov, a Rutgers Business “People have to realize that it and they of fend without meaning to,” DiNicola said. takes decades to get up to this School senior, said this policy is “We’re conditioned from bir th point of self-acceptance, and all one of the best he had ever seen. to say that you have this high- you have to do is not mess up a If a group on campus believes the University has marginalized pitched voice, you’re female, pronoun,” DiNicola said.
them, he said he would fully support their cause, help them further their bill and assist new problems that may emerge. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities can be the targets of violence. A total of 2,016 LGBTQ and HIV-related homicides were committed in 2012. Fifty-three percent of them were against transgender individuals, according to a 2012 report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs. Transgender people within higher education continue to be an invisible, often forgotten community, according to “The Top 10 Trans-Friendly Colleges and Universities” article on advocate. com, an LGBTQ website. Only about 10 percent of colleges and universities have trans-inclusive nondiscrimination statements. “Being LGB and Q have to do with sexual orientation, but being Trans or the T is gender identity,” Payano said.
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The novel is about a young man who finds himself on novel, “Water for Elephants,” ac- his own for the first time and experiences new things, cording to the website. Philip Wythe, a School of she said. “It’s an exploration of reAr ts and Sciences sophomore, said he star ted a novel for lationships, sexuality, growing up and adolescence,” the program. His stor y is set in World Sidykh said. She said writing, whethWar II-era Russia and based on magical realism, he said. The er under the constraints of plot revolves around a young NaNoWriMo or not, is a chalgirl’s mission to find her broth- lenge, especially with the adder’s spirit. In the novel, she ed responsibilities of school and her brother’s girlfriend and work. “It’s really dif ficult, I would encounter dif ferent creatures say. You have to commit the of folklore. “There are different kinds of time to ever ything at once,” character arcs that form, and as she said. “It’s a process a writer, I have to build those of compromise throughout the project.” over time, baSharae Alsically over len-Mar tin, a the period of “The novel isn’t just a Rutgers alumone month,” hobby, it’s a responsibility. na, said this is he said. Wythe said And for me ... I’m not just her fifth year his idea for writing something for fun, p a r t i c i p a t i n g NaNoWthe novel I’m writing something for in riMo. was inspired my future.” Martin’s by a number first year comof factors. PHILIP WYTHE peting was “I’m 50 perSchool of Arts and Sciences Sophomore the year she cent Eastern graduated European myfrom Rutgers. self,” he said. His idea was also spurred by She was 5,000 words short of his interest in his current classes the expected 50,000 that year. in magical realism and the Rus- Last year was the first time she achieved the goal, and she was sian language. Wythe said it is difficult to find not even close to finishing her the motivation to churn out ap- novel, she said. “There’s a certain freedom proximately 2,000 words a day in addition to his multiple exams that exists in NaNoWriMo. Like today, I’m going to have a masand essays. “The biggest thing I tell my- querade, and [tomorrow], someself is that the novel isn’t just one’s going to get poisoned. I a hobby, it’s a responsibility,” can’t wait to get home and write. he said. “And for me, what It’s that excitement that I absoI’m telling myself is that I’m lutely love having for Novemnot just writing something for ber,” Martin said. She said she learned to fun, I’m writing something for write for NaNoWriMo by almy future.” Maryna Sidykh, a Rutgers lowing herself to fail. Over alumna, agreed that NaNoWriMo the years, she has seen is a challenge because the sense marked improvements. “I love being able to surprise of urgency is self-enforced. Sidykh, a tutor at the Plan- myself with certain lines of diagere Writing Center, said a logue, or the way characters are 50,000-word novel calculates developed,” she said. “I love how to roughly 1,800 words a day, enthusiastic I feel about getting or three single-spaced pag- up and writing.” One important feature of es of text, over the course of NaNoWriMo is that the month a month. “It takes more discipline and of November is solely for writself-control to commit yourself to ing, and December is when writers focus on peer-edits that,” she said. Sidykh has participated in and revisions, according to NaNoWriMo for the past six its website. “There are rough patches in years, but is not writing a novel this year because she start- there, but there is also someed her own novel this August, thing that gleams in it that kind of feels like at the end of the she said. She said one of her novels for day there’s going to be someNaNoWriMo was about a girl who thing really interesting to write moved into a haunted house and about,” Wythe said. Wythe said his biggest motivabecame friends with the creatures tion is watching people gain interinhabiting it. “It’s a little contrived, but it’s est in his novel. “Telling people about that the effort [that counts], I think,” and seeing them really light up she said. Sidykh is not entirely detached about those ideas. It really infrom the program, she said, since spires you to put your best foot the novel she started in August for ward and to say, ‘This is what builds upon former characters I really want my work to be at the end of the day,’” he said. and themes.
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convention Ragusa says 99 percent of Future Scholar graduates enrolled in post-secondary institutions continued from front
Perry said he credits the Upward Bound program, a program that provides support to participants in preparation for college entrance, for encouraging him, and at times forcing him, to pursue a rigorous education he was not always interested in. “From there, what became clear to me was as I went through the Upward Bound program, I saw that if you gave students … From disadvantaged populations access to a quality education, then the disadvantages could be erased,” Perry said. His mentors at Upward Bound did not allow Perr y to take a cooking class with his friends, he said. Instead of leaving school at the half-day point with other students, the program’s assistant director enrolled him in Spanish IV. “They put me in a statistics class. They signed me up for the SAT,” Perr y said. “When I wanted pre-Algebra, they put me in Algebra. They didn’t let me do a lot of things that my friends were doing. It wasn’t even an option.” Perry said he transformed himself from a child of poverty into an innovative educator and the founder and principal of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Conn.
The school provides disadvantaged children access to a worldclass education that sets them up to succeed in four-year universities upon graduation, according to the school’s website. “I’ve been so fortunate to have both friends and mentors who never made me aware that we were poor,” Perry said. “And that’s one of the reasons I get so angry when I hear people talking about poverty as being a barrier.” It is not about how poor someone is, it has to do with the overall experience, he said. His mother had him when she was 16 years old. Despite her youth, she helped him finish high school. Perry said he hopes his audience walked away from his speech recognizing that children are the sum of the opportunities presented to them. Courtney McAnuff, vice president for Enrollment Management, designed the program after the question of what could be done to address the issue of student recruitment and retention at Rutgers arose, said Traymanesha Moore, program coordinator for RFS at Rutgers-Newark, in an email statement. The program began in 2008, and the first cohort of RFS students had a 97 percent graduation rate, up from 57 percent before the program began, according to Elena Ragusa,
research project manager at Rutgers-New Brunswick. “99 percent of these RFS graduates are now enrolled in post-secondar y institutions,” Ragusa said. “Moreover, RFS students have developed metacognitive skills … plus they demonstrate increased confidence in academic abilities as well as critical-thinking and communication, social and professional life skills.” The most rewarding part of the program, Ragusa said, has been watching students graduate and go on to college, going from a RFS to a Rutgers Scholar. “Mission: Possible,” which began Wednesday and ends today, is meant to engage educators in a national dialogue to create new strategies for providing students access to higher education, Ragusa said in an email. “Together, we will explore the economic, social and cultural benefits of innovative and effective outreach strategies to make college access and completion a reality,” she said. The conference had over 200 registrants and 40 organizations contributing to this national dialogue, Ragusa said. She said Perry emphasized the point that the answer to the “how” question exists, but raised questions regarding why others are not replicating what has already worked. “The problem is all of our alums are in college,” he said. “So that’s a pretty cool feeling — to not be able to fill the place with alums because they’re away at school.”
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proceeding to accommodate the construction of the new Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health. “The expansion will address the impact of losing existing parking and will do so without having any effect on any wetlands, buffers or other sensitive land,” he said. Antonio Calcado, vice president of University Facilities and Capital Planning, said a part of the project includes an expansion of the existing parking lot. The parking lot will be expanded because the Food Science Building displaced 131 parking spaces. By expanding the parking lot, Cook campus will not regain all 131 of those lost parking spaces, but will create approximately 60 to 90 spots depending on the design and layout. “We’ve displaced people now. There’s no doubt about that, and we’ve pushed parking from all those 130 spaces, and they’ve [gone] to other places,” Calcado said. He said Lot 97, the parking lot next to the current Food Science Building, is fully occupied most of the time, and finding a parking space is next to impossible. “I can’t speak for what is further away, but we have to remember that we’re adding people to this building as well,” he said.
When Rutgers opens the institute, he said it would create a significant need for parking again. Willets Health Center will also move from its Suydam Street location to be embedded into the new Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health. Calcado said this would generate an even greater demand for parking. He said the Department of Transportation Services has conducted several studies and deemed that more parking spaces are necessary. “Right now, it is programmed as part of the project, and the project was approved by the board,” Calcado said. “The parking lot will only be built as the building is going up.” He also said Rutgers would consider building an environmentally responsible parking lot. “We take pride in ourselves, not just at Cook campus, but across the University of being sustainable and environmentally friendly,” he said. He said all of the University’s landscaping practices are environmentally friendly. Rutgers also has one of the highest recycling percentages in the country for any university or college. “We recycle over 67 percent of our waste,” he said. “I think very few can say that. … So we take great pride in that.”
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Rutgers Recreation provides scuba diving course for community By Jessica Herring Contributing Writer
Rutgers students have many options when it comes to recreation classes, but only one program allows them to become professional scuba diving instructors. Rutgers Recreation’s scuba classes allow participants to receive their first scuba diving experience. Students meet at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on Busch campus to learn from a dive master or instructor about open-water scuba diving, said Deborah Miller, scuba coordinator at Rutgers Recreation. “One of the most rewarding experiences in scuba diving is seeing people go from taking that first breath underwater in the pool to seeing them diving in a reef that is filled with fish, coral, sponges and all the underwater environment,” she said. For a little less than $400, the scuba program offers Professional Association of Diving Instructors five-star training, Miller said, open to students, faculty, staff, family members and the general public. Miller said the scuba program typically has classes each semester. During the fall, they offer six classes a week. The scuba classes train in the Olympic pool at 17 feet, and then do open-water diving 25 to 30 feet deep at Dutch Springs, a freshwater lake in Bethlehem, Pa., Miller said. Students can register for this program through the University’s recreation website, Miller said. They do not have to be strong swimmers, only comfortable in the water. Miller said the weekend classes are more accelerated because
Rutgers Recreation provides scuba diving courses for a little less than $400. The divers travel to places such as Dutch Springs in Bethlehem, Pa., to practice. COURTESY OF FACEBOOK they train Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. After five sessions, they go to Dutch Springs and complete four open-water dives over the course of two days, after which they become a certified scuba diver. In class time, students learn information about the aquatic environment, how to breathe underwater and how to use the equipment, she said. They complete some of the more academic sections online. After learning the basic skills, students then apply the skills and become familiar with setting up equipment and operating it in and above water, she said. This year, the diving program is offering more opportunities with professional-level training and diving trips, Miller said. The program has gone to North Carolina, and this past spring, a group of students went to an aquarium in Baltimore to dive, she said.
Another group went to Belmar Beach, N.J., in October to do underwater beach clean up and pick up marine debris, Miller said. This coming January, some trainees are going diving in the Bahamas on a sailboat for a week, she said. “[They] have already finished their pool work and academic work,” she said. “They are going to finish up their four open-water dives in the Bahamas. It is going to be a really great trip. We are looking forward to it.” Some of the programs offered for scuba students include advanced training, continuing education programs, recreation diving, fish identification, marine conservation, inlet diving, a review class and New Jersey boat diving, Miller said. The most popular classes are the open-water diving class and the dive master training classes, she said.
Students in the dive master class are training to become professionals and can start working as part-time dive masters or do internships abroad at places such as Little Cayman in the Cayman Islands. Miller has been diving for more than 20 years, she said. She became interested in diving during a snorkeling trip to the Florida Keys. “I went on a boat the second day of the trip and there were divers with me on the boat,” Miller said. “The divers went under water and did not return to the sur face for about 45 minutes … For scuba diving, you are able to spend a lot of time under water.” She became very passionate about scuba diving, working as an instructor for 12 years before becoming a coordinator. Frequent scuba diving locations include the Bahamas, Florida Keys, St. Martin, the Virgin
Islands, Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, she said. Bonnie Wong, a School of Social Work senior, became a certified scuba diver in October. “I became interested in the scuba program when I read an article about how, in addition to scuba diving, the program did service activities, such as cleaning up the shore,” she said. She did indoor water training at the Werblin Recreation Center for two Saturdays and two Sundays, then went with the class to Dutch Springs in Bethlehem, Pa. to practice. The staff helped her adjust to the air pressure while she was diving, she said. Wong hopes to take more advanced scuba diving courses so she can dive to deeper depths and participate in service activities, she said. “I enjoy the program because I really like outdoor activities and the price is ver y affordable,” she said. “It is also convenient for me since it is offered at the University. I would go on the weekends for training, and I ended up making friends with people who go to the University.” Abdul Basit, a graduate student in computer science, became a certified scuba diver in October. His most memorable experience from scuba diving so far was going to Dutch Springs, where he was able to see fish and a sunken fire engine, he said. He is going to the Bahamas soon and plans to scuba dive while on vacation. “Scuba diving is relaxing,” Basit said. “You get to see the world in a whole dif ferent view. You are able to see some things people never have the chance to see.”
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Mayor of Toronto draws fire for alleged sex, drugs scandal
ERUPTION CAUSES EVACUATION Mount Sinabung spews pyroclastic smoke as seen from
Berastagi village in Karo district on Nov. 14, in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia. Up to 4,300 residents have been evacuated from five villages in North Sumatra due to the volcanic eruptions of Mount Sinabung. The volcano has been erupting for several days, spewing ash and lava 2.5 miles into the sky. GETTY IMAGES
Ford later apologized for his TORONTO — Toronto’s mayor denied yesterday that he pres- remarks at a news conference. sured a female staffer for oral sex, He explained he was pushed in an obscenity-laced statement “over the line” by newly released on live television in which he also court documents that included threatened to take legal action allegations against him involving against former staffers who spoke cocaine, escorts and prostitution. to police about his drinking and He called the allegations “100 per cent lies.” drug use. He said his integrity as a father The mayor, who admitted last week to smoking crack, later an- and husband had been attacked, nounced he was getting profes- prompting him to “see red.” “I acted on complete impulse sional help. But he once again refused to step down and used a in my remarks,” Ford said. Ford also said he didn’t want to typical mix of contrition and defiance several public appearances comment on the particulars of the health care supyesterday. He port he’s receivwore a footing and asked ball jersey to “I acted on for privacy for a City Council complete impulse his family. session, where in my remarks.” The mayor outraged counsaid he would cilors turned Rob ford take legal actheir backs Toronto Mayor tion against his each time he former chief spoke and again of staff, Mark called on him to Towhey and two other aides over step aside. Earlier, Ford drew gasps their interviews with police that from reporters when he used were detailed in court documents an obscenity as he denied tell- released Wednesday. Ford did not specify what ing a staffer he wanted to have the aides might have said that oral sex. “I’ve never said that in my life was untrue. He also said he to her, I would never do that,” would take action against a waiter who said he believed Ford said on live television. The father of two school-age Ford and a woman were snortchildren said he is “happily mar- ing cocaine in a private room at ried” and used crude language a restaurant. to say he enjoys enough oral sex — The Associated Press at home.
IN BRIEF CAMDEN, N.J. — State officials say they’ve taken down a narcotics distribution network in Camden that had ties to Mexican drug cartels. Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced yesterday that 47 people have been charged with racketeering. Among those charged are three brothers, two from Pennsylvania and one from New Jersey, who allegedly controlled a ring that made millions selling heroin and cocaine in Camden’s northern neighborhoods. Authorities say the brothers allegedly ran a highly organized network that operated open-air drugs markets for years by “renting” blocks or street corners under their control in exchange for “protection.” The three brothers allegedly relied on multiple suppliers who obtained heroin and cocaine from Mexican drug cartels. Police say a number of the defendants have violent criminal records and some have ties to criminal street gangs. ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — Protesters were on hand as LG Electronics broke ground on a planned corporate headquarters above tree-lined cliffs on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. The South Korean company planted the first of 700 trees on the 26-acre site yesterday.
Opponents on the New Jersey and New York sides of the river say the 143-foot-high building in Englewood Cliffs exceeds a 35foot height limit on buildings and would ruin the natural beauty of Palisades Interstate Park. LG officials say the $300 million project will blend into its surroundings and boost the economy. JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Federal authorities in New Jersey have accused a pharmacist from New York City of assembling equipment for an illegal drug lab. Authorities say 33-year-old Jordan Gonzalez made a series of purchases through an online auction website of materials associated with the hallucinogen known as MDA. Prosecutors say the purchases included chemicals, flasks and empty gel caps. Authorities were conducting searches in Jersey City yesterday, where Gonzalez used to live, and in New York City. He’s charged with attempting to manufacture MDA and possessing chemicals and materials to manufacture a controlled substance. A message left for his court-appointed attorney was not returned. No court appearance has been scheduled. — The Associated Press
IRANIAN CHARITY An Iranian serves food for needy people during the Ashura mourning feast Nov. 14 in the village of Bagh Malek, 480 Km south of Tehran, Iran. The Ashura day commemorates the death of the third Shiite Imam Hussein, who was grandson of Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Ashura is by the armies of the caliph Yazid near Karbala in 680 AD. GETTY IMAGES
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Although Rutgers philanthropist and alumnus Robert W. Vorhees passed away this week, his accomplishments and dedication to the University will remain. We laurel his generous donations to the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum and Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Most of all, Vorhees’ generosity and continued involvement are what we will cherish and forever commend.
In a YouTube interview that mustered viral attention amongst Rutgers students Stan McNeil revealed that he was forced to resign for praying over a student. But ABC’s interview with the bus driver reports otherwise — he was apparently forced to resign for improperly securing a wheelchair one time. So, was the root of the problem the preaching or the security violation? Was he fired or did he resign? It’s been a week since, “Stan the LX Man” was “fired” for … well, we don’t really know. And for that reason, we dart the lack of transparency around this issue.
DISAPPOINTING DINING
VENERATING VETERANS
Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus is infamous for its less-than-appetizing meal options. Although a lot of students turn to the Knight Room, more commonly known as Brower takeout, pasta night has taken a huge hit. While the pasta used to be at least somewhat appealing, it has now been replaced with the loaded potato, salad or dry-meatball-and-overcooked-noodle option that doesn’t make the grade. Once again, we dart Brower Commons.
Veteran’s Day served as a reminder to us all to honor those who have risked their lives for our country. Veterans here at Rutgers University spoke out this week about the support provided to them for an easier transition into student life and the very different challenges it presents. We think Veteran’s Services at Rutgers deserves a laurel for making the extra effort to accommodate veterans and give back to those who gave up so much for us.
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Being a part of the Rutgers student body, we experience diversity on a daily basis. Even though Native Americans make up less than one percent of our student body, we laurel the Rutgers Native American Center’s efforts. They are expanding their horizons by hosting events and attempting to make the center more recognizable campus-wide. The center is representative of what the Rutgers community should strive to be more like.
These are hard times, and it doesn’t help that on Nov. 1, federal funding was cut for the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program. There is already a stigma attached to food stamps, and these cuts to the program will only make it less appealing to those who could otherwise really benefit from it. We think this reduction deserves a dart for complicating the issue and making federal aid for the impoverished even less accessible.
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Student debt crisis deserves attention and action COMMENTARY NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR POLITICAL AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
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or millions of high school seniors across the countr y, navigating the college admissions maze proves challenging enough. An acceptance into their dream university, however, can unravel a larger obstacle: funding a fouryear education. Catherine Benavidez has encountered these challenges first-hand at the University of Texas at Austin. She is president of an on-campus organization and a student government representative, works two jobs, serves as an undergraduate research assistant and is currently pursuing an independent project. In some regards, Benavidez is lucky. Although her parents are unable to fund her education, she has been awarded $25,000 in scholarships and financial aid from the state of Texas and her university. Like many students, however, this assistance does not go far enough: A variety of expenses, from books to housing to school materials, have pushed her to take out student loans. She joins the majority of American college students who graduate with debt. According to American Student Assistance, a nonprofit organization seeking
Our northern neighbors also enjoy lowstudent-loan solutions, roughly 60 percent of students borrow to help cover the cost er tuition costs. Independent educational of school. The average individual that has systems exist within each Canadian provtaken out student loans owes more than ince, functioning similarly to public insti$24,000, with 1 in 10 borrowers owing tutions in the United States. Annual tuition more than $54,000. Combined with dismal at the country’s colleges and universities employment prospects post-graduation, ranges from CA$5,500 to CA$26,000. Genthis debt can burden young professionals erous tax incentives and grants, however, reduce the need for student loans. Interlong into their careers. The United States is virtually alone in est free financing, interest relief, debt reits staggering tuition costs. The College duction in repayment, and revision of loan terms are Board reavailable ports that to assist average tustudents ition, room “To encourage federal action on student with debt. and board debt, college students must vocalize their Making for the college as 2013-2014 concerns at the voting booth. Young adults af fordable academic as it is in year has can do better in this regard.” some othreached er coun$40,917 tries is no at private institutions and $18,391 for public insti- easy task and would likely require signifitutions. Meanwhile, our international cant government expenditures. The Unitpeers provide far more affordable options. ed States faces serious debt itself. The exMany European governments, for exam- pansion of federal tuition assistance could ple, heavily subsidize educational costs, add yet another burden to our budget. Likewise, greater college accessibility enabling their students to graduate debtfree. At Trinity College Dublin, annual tu- might be responsibly achieved by reorderition for European Union residents rests ing our spending priorities. The Center under €10,000 for the university’s most on Budget and Policy Priorities reports expensive degree programs. Low-income that the federal government allocated students can receive aid to further reduce approximately 19 percent of spending, or $689 billion, to domestic and international this amount.
defense efforts in fiscal year 2012. Another 22 percent, or $773 billion, was spent on funding Social Security. Meanwhile, primary-, secondary-, and post-secondary-education received a meager 2 percent of total federal spending. If the federal government were to direct an additional 0.1 percent of its spending to help college students, it would unlock $3.5 billion in financial aid. To encourage federal action on student debt, college students must vocalize their concerns at the voting booth. Young adults can do better in this regard. According to U.S. Census Bureau data of the November 2012 elections, voter turnout for citizens 18 to 24 year olds lagged nearly 30 percent behind turnout among citizens 55 to 64 years old. Until we rectify this disparity, America’s student debt crisis will likely not receive the attention it deserves, even as it quietly intensifies day by day. This commentary was written by the following members of the National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement, a consortium of more than 20 colleges: Hanna Hebert, a student at Allegheny College, Sietse Goffard, a student at Harvard University, Gavin Sullivan, a student at Harvard University, Kira Kaur, a graduate student at Rutgers University, Catherine Benavidez, a student at University of Texas at Austin and Laura Silliman, a student at Vanderbilt University.
Special interest groups should not control agenda COMMENTARY NICK JERMER AND ANNA BARCY
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ov. Chris Christie wasn’t the only big winner in last Tuesday’s election. The unprecedented rise of special interest spending in our democracy is the real “elephant in the room.” Empowered by recent Supreme Court rulings, special interests on both ends of the political spectrum are spending record-breaking amounts to sway elections at ever y level of government. This flood of Big Money is drowning out the voices of ordinar y voters like us and blocking progress on the issues we care about, whether it’s the rising cost of college, lack of access to affordable health care or global warming. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission lifted limits on what outside spending groups — super PACs and other non-profit groups that, technically, can’t co-
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ordinate with political candidates or their Research by New Jersey Public Interest campaigns — can spend in our elections. Research Group has shown that more than Not surprisingly, the 2012 elections be- 93 percent of super PAC fundraising came from contributions of $10,000 or more, came the most expensive in history. Special interests spent more than $1 bil- while nearly 60 percent of super PAC fundlion last year – more than triple the amount raising came from just 159 donors giving at they spent in 2008. And in New Jersey, least $1 million. And what’s even worse: this Big Money outside spending is reaching astronomical system has levels as well: given trespecial intermendous ests spent “...This Big Money system has given power to over $35 milout-of-state lion dollars tremendous power to out-of-state groups g r o u p s to influence looking to influence New Jersey politics.” looking to the outcome influence of the guberNew Jersey natorial and politics. In state legislative races, compared to the previous high the Garden State, more than 99 percent of non-candidate, non-party money spent in of $14 million in 2009. The Supreme Court has super-sized the the 2012 House and Senate races came from influence of billionaire mega-donors while out-of-state groups, most of which were marginalizing the interests of everyday super PACs. How can the issues we care Americans, no matter what their political about get the attention they deserve when affiliation. After all, it’s not students like out-of-state groups dominate elections that us who are payrolling the super PACs — should be decided by New Jersey voters?
Enough is enough. The vast majority of Americans, including students, think that the super PAC campaign system created by Citizens United has to go. The 2012 presidential race and New Jersey’s state contests this fall serve as a reminder for just how urgently we need legislative reforms to stop our elections from going to the highest bidder. NJPIRG students’ activism already got the State Senate and Assembly, the City of Newark and Essex County, among others, to pass resolutions calling on Congress to overturn Citizens United. With grassroots pressure growing, New Jerseyans are sending a clear message to Washington: Big Money has no place in government of, by and for the People. Nick Jermer is a Rutgers Business School sophomore majoring in accounting and NJPIRG student chapter chair. Anna Barcy is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in in Latin American studies and comparative literature and a Busch Campus Representative for the Rutgers University Student Assembly.
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DIVERSIONS Nancy Black
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Today’s Birthday (11/15/13). What if you could save the world just by doing what you really love? This is that kind of year. Productive documentation fulfills a long-term personal goal. Passion especially sparks in autumn and again in spring. Harness it for a launch or show next summer. Build partnership, and it flowers. Blast off together. 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 an 8 — An accident or misunderstanding could ruin a romantic moment. Move past it by crafting harmony. Shopping for household items becomes top priority. Make sure you know how much you have in savings. Then get what you need. Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — You have extra confidence. Get as much done as physically possible. Notice ways to cut expenses without sacrifice, for yourself and others. Express your thoughts clearly to avoid confusion. Savor the sunset. Gemini (May 21-June 20) — Today is a 7 — A change at the top could throw you off balance momentarily. Focus on finishing up old business for the next couple of days. Technical breakdowns could tangle. If you don’t feel like going, maybe a friend can go get what you need. Rest up. Cancer (June 21-July 22) — Today is a 9 — Your plans today go better with friends. Don’t get intimidated to invite people. They can choose for themselves. Compliment your circles on their contributions. Your network and partners move the game forward with maximum fun and style. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — You’re discovering wonderful things. Shop later. Consider new opportunities, even ones that you may have dismissed earlier. Add a mysterious touch. Your status rises. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — One pleasant surprise leads to more. Resistance could be encountered. You can run or confront it. Add a touch of glamour and a dash of creativity. Above all, include humor. Your studies move ahead.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — It takes more study to figure costs. You have what it takes to make it work. Seek better tactics or convince others to try again. Make water part of the scenery, but keep it close to home. Support family. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 9 — Frustration entangles. Sharing the load makes things easier and more fun, not just now but tomorrow too. Have faith in your partner, and make sure you know what you’re supposed to be doing. Minimize risks with planning. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Your reputation precedes you. Share your future vision, venture farther out, and work smarter to make money. Save for a rainy day. Some temporary confusion could disrupt the calm. Restore peace with gentle music. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — Love what you do; do what you love. Then focus on the game. Soon you can relax. Move quickly now and save money. Follow a hunch, and you’ll learn more that way. Discover hidden treasure in plain sight. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — There’s no need to spend what you don’t have. Use what’s at hand to improve your personal abode by cleverly repurposing something. Home and family take center stage now. Imagination lights up your writing. Fill it with love. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Schedule carefully. There’s no such thing as a stupid question, but your timing could be off. Don’t speculate ... calculate. Congestion or breakdown could delay your plan. Make a call. Get help building your dream.
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SHOTS Jack leads Knights with 18 points against Bulldogs, including 11 in second half continued from back outing for Rutgers, as the Queens native led the Knights with 18 points, including 11 in the second half. Junior guard Myles Mack chipped in 17 points. And junior forward Malick Kone’s 12 second-half points were a crucial boost off the bench for a team that struggled with Yale’s half-court offense for the majority of the game.
“They executed,” said head coach Eddie Jordan. “They moved, they used the clock. I was disappointed in the way we came out with very low energy.” Rutgers failed in that regard, especially in the first half, as the Knights shot just 39 percent from the field and looked sluggish throughout the first period. Yale, meanwhile, played effective half-court offense in the first half, shooting 53 percent from the field. Guard Jesse Pritchard pinched in three 3-pointers for the Bulldogs, who were 5-for-10 from the 3-point line in the first half. With Rutgers’ size advantage, Jordan knew the Bulldogs would need to score from outside.
Yale started the game with a 2-3 zone, but Rutgers was able to penetrate easily thanks to its size. Moore and Judge combined for 17 of Rutgers’ 34 first-half points. Yale outplayed Rutgers for the first 38 minutes, but clutch plays from veterans allowed the Knights to remain undefeated inside the RAC’s confines this year. Though as the season continues, Jack knows those opportunities for comeback victories will diminish. “It does a lot for our psyche, knowing we can actually come back like that,” Jack said. “But we have to realize with better teams, they’re going to pull that win out, so we have to get back in the gym and keep working.”
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Senior returns from hurt wrist By Tyler Karalewich Staff Writer
The Rutgers wrestling team began its season Nov. 3 at Hofstra, where the Scarlet Knights pulled off their 22-21 victory on pin criteria. Sophomore heavyweight Billy Smith, an NCAA qualifier last season, produced the pin fall vital to Rutgers’ victory following the fellow sophomore 197-pounder Hayden Hrymack’s pin. While the Knights learned they won by criteria, another former NCAA qualifier had to celebrate the team’s first victory as a spectator donning street clothes. Vincent Dellefave sat out the opening dual meet with a wrist injury and did not factor into the team’s decision. Redshirt freshman Sean McCabe filled in for the senior at 133 pounds, moving up a weight class from his usual 125 pounds. There will be no redshirt freshman wrestling overmatched at 133 pounds this weekend for the Knights. Dellefave, injured no more, makes his season debut as Rutgers hosts its first home dual meet Sunday against Boston University at the College Ave. Gym. “This match is going to be a good one,” Dellefave said. “I’ve been
waiting a while to get back. It’s going to be my first match since last year at nationals so I’m excited.” The Knights went 5-2 against BU wrestlers in the Binghamton Open last weekend. Although it enjoyed success against the Terriers, Rutgers knows not to take them too lightly. “I don’t get too caught up in that sort of thing. They are pretty good and have some guys who have beaten us already,” said head coach Scott Goodale. “Across the board they have guys who can pose a problem for us. They will be a pretty good test.” The Knights have a tough matchup at 157 pounds in 2013 NCAA qualifier Nestor Taffur. Taffur finished 36-9 last season and also claimed the 157-pound title at the Binghamton Open. Sophomore Anthony Perrotti faces Taffur. Perrotti enjoyed went to the semifinals of the consolation Sunday while collecting three pin falls and four victories. Goodale knows the importance of Perrotti’s match against Taffur. “It’s a great opportunity, huge opportunity for Anthony. Anytime you get a chance to knock off a guy ranked ahead of you, it’s big,” Goodale said. “[Taffur] is a great
FINALS Corboz says Rutgers cannot lose focus after knocking off top-seeded Louisville continued from back Luckily for the Knights, the Bulls botched many open opportunities inside the box in their first meeting. But now much more is at stake. Riding an emotional high, Rutgers knows it must stay on course. “I think that’s the biggest thing — making sure that no one’s really overconfident,” Corboz said. “Yeah, we knocked off the one seed, but we still have a huge task ahead if we want to win the tournament. … We’ve got to stay focused on Friday and beating USF before we think about anything else. We played them here and they were tough, so it’s not going to be easy.” But there is more reason for optimism this time around. Eze, who leads Rutgers with 20 points, played a full game for the
first time in more than a month against USF. He did not get a shot off until overtime. “When you come back, that doesn’t mean you’re 100 percent ready to go,” said head coach Dan Donigan. “It took him a couple games and some quality minutes to kind of get back into form. Nobody can miss as many games as he missed and come back in and not miss a beat.” Eze regained his beat at the most crucial point in last Friday’s play-in game against Cincinnati. The Sayreville, N.J., native exploded for four goals, opening the floodgates for the rest of the offense. After Eze’s first tally in the 49th minute, sophomore defender Drew Morgan found his first-career goal 14 minutes later. Then redshirt freshman defender Kiernan Kemmerer recorded his first-career assist in the 81st minute.
wrestler and will wrestle hard. It will be a wild match.” The pressure may be on Perrotti to get a win, but he is excited facing a former workout partner. “We used to work out a lot during the summer and he is a pretty good friend of mine,” Perrotti said. “It will be a good test for me since he is a national contender and ranked high. I’m going to let it all hang out and I really have nothing to lose since he is ranked top 10.” Rutgers also must contend with the fourth-place 165-pounder from this past weekend’s open, Mitchell Wightman, who narrowly defeated Nick Visicaro, 3-2, in the consolation round semifinals. Smith faces Kevin Innis, who defeated Smith at wrestle backs during the NCAA Tournament last season. The match holds more significance for Dellefave outside the realm of his personal return from a wrist injury. “BU is a real tough team and they have their studs going against our studs,” Dellefave said. “They are actually losing their program this year and it is their last season, so we want to pack ‘The Barn’ for them. We are going to have to come ready to wrestle.”
“Once I got the [first] goal, it boosted the confidence of the team,” Eze said. “We were just waiting for that one goal, and I think the game opens up when we’re scoring and it opens it up for other players on the team to get for ward and create more oppor tunities.” Rutgers must continue to ride Eze’s breakaway speed and finish the critical scoring chances it struggled with much of the season in his absence. Having already shown they could persevere and flip a switch just in time against Cincinnati, the Knights are confident they will finish what they started against the Bulls. “It shows a lot that we all came together in the end,” Eze said. “We were working hard in training. We knew we believed that if we played our game that we could play with anybody.” For updates on the Rutgers men’s soccer ream, follow Greg Johnson on Twitter @GregJohnsonRU. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
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Guard tries to continue hot scoring for Rutgers By Justin Lesko Staff Writer
Sophomore guard Kahleah Copper topped her career high in points in both games this season for the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Copper scored a career-high 26 points Wednesday against Northeastern and 16 Sunday against Princeton to top her previous best of 14 last January against Providence. Her 26 points against the Huskies were the most for a Knight since the 2010-11 season when Khadijah Rushdan had the same amount against North Carolina A&T. Copper earned a double-double as well, adding a career-high 11 rebounds. “I came out really hard because I’m excited for our new season and to have a better year this year, and my teammates and coaches have been very supportive,” Copper said. “Everyone’s been getting me the ball and we’ve been outrebounding teams.” She looks to continue her hot streak Sunday in Rutgers’ (2-0) game against LaSalle (0-1) at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. The Explorers dropped their season opener against Temple, 60-47. LaSalle played like a different team in each half against the Owls. The Explorers shot 35 percent from the field in the first half, while making four of 10 3-pointers. Coupled with a stellar defense that adding seven steals and three blocks, they led the Owls, 27-23, at halftime. But in the second half, they could not find their stroke again, shooting only 7-for-32 from the floor while Temple shot 55 percent. A third of the Owls’ points in the game came off turnovers. LaSalle scored 11 off turnovers, but they were all in the first half as Temple outscored the Explorers, 37-20, in the second half. The Knights, meanwhile, took the lead against Northeastern and never looked back.
TOURNEY Knights shift focus to NCAA opener after shootout loss in AAC tournament final continued from back the occasion, the entire team rose to the occasion,” Crooks said. “We never broke. There were moments when we did not have the run of it but we didn’t break. We did what we needed to do to prevent shots, to prevent entrance balls [and] to prevent service.” Rutgers comes off a loss to UCF that ended 8-7 in a shootout in its third overtime match of the postseason. The loss allowed the Knights to analyze their accomplishments. “We were all really upset at first, but then we took it into perspective,” said sophomore defender Brianne Reed. “We made it to the final, we made it that far, we gave ourselves that opportunity. We left it all on the field. There really wasn’t anything else we could do at that point.”
They led, 31-26, at halftime before going on a 16-point run with three straight lay ups by Copper. Junior forward Betnijah Laney stepped up in her role as one of three captains, along with Copper and junior forward Christa Evans. Laney recorded a double-double in both games, putting her career total at three. She followed her 14-and-10 performance against Princeton with 15 and 13 against Northeastern. Laney contends that she does not worry about the numbers “If we don’t get rebounds, we don’t get second chances,” she said. “The scoring is not the main focus going into the game, making sure I score ‘X’ amount of points.” With junior guard Briyona Canty adding 12 points, three Knights made it to double-digits. Against Princeton, six players did. “It’s just something that happened with our team chemistry and in practice and playing together,” Laney said. “It’s always good when you have any amount of players in double figures.” Highly touted freshman point guard Tyler Scaife scored 13 in her debut, but only had 2 points Wednesday of f 1-for-7 shooting. “There’s things that she doesn’t do, that she might not remember, that all freshman do,” said head coach C. Vivian Stringer following the Princeton game, “and then my coaches will remind me ‘Don’t worry. When the lights come on, she shows up.’” Graduate student Khristian Lee, an Alabama transfer, proved an allaround threat in her Explorers debut. She posted 11 points, eight rebounds, five assists and five steals. Guard Alicia Cropper led the team with 13 points. The Knights were almost untouchable last season at the RAC, finishing 13-2 at home and winning their first seven games there.
Filigno does not think the effects of that game will linger. “I think our confidence is so high right now,” she said. “We know we can compete with the best teams and we know we almost had it and we were so close on Sunday. Although it hurts for a few days, we’re just going to get right back into it and just perform with ever ything we have.” The AAC Tournament aside, the focus now shifts to the NCAA Tournament and Reed knows her team has a chance to move into the second round. “We scrimmaged them in preseason and we lost and we all said right after that game, ‘If you would have given us another month or two, I know we could have them.’” Reed said. “I know they just won their championship, but we’re a better team now and I think we’ve got a really good chance to beat them.” For updates on the Rutgers women’s soccer team, follow Lauren Green on Twitter @lgreenWPSoccer. For general Rutgers sports updates, follow @TargumSports.
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Will Brandon Coleman break the Rutgers football team’s career-receiving TD record of 20 this year? Fast Facts SOURCE: SCARLETKNIGHTS.COM
• Junior wide receiver Brandon Coleman tied Rutgers’ single-season record in touchdowns (10) last season.
• Coleman tied his career high in touchdowns for a game (2) in the
season opener Aug. 29 at Fresno State. He also had nine receptions.
• Coleman needs 167 more receiving yards to surpass his career-high mark of 718 established last season.
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“I think he’ll break it, especially with the upcoming games. ... It’s only three and the way that we’ve been handling our games, I think that’s an attainable number. It’s not too far out of reach, especially for him.”
“Not with the way he’s been playing lately. I think he’s going to be a first-round pick, but not from what he’s doing this year. As long as he stays injured and stuff, unless he gets better, it doesn’t look good for him.”
“Sure, if they put him in enough. ... Just the people that they’re going to be against later in the season, I think with some of the later conference games they just have a better shot at winning.”
“We have four games left and then the bowl. I think he can really. If they can get him the ball more in the offense, he can definitely do it. Three touchdowns? If Gary Nova can get him the ball, that’s how he’ll break it.”
“I’m sure the coaches are probably emphasizing that to him and he’s got that on his mind also. They’re probably going to make an effort so he can break the record. As a coach, I would try to emphasize that and see that he can break the record. There’s a good chance he’ll make it.”
“At the last game I thought maybe he was not feeling well or injured or something because he didn’t do well in the last game. But I do believe he will. I think if the quarterback can throw it better and he can catch it, he’ll do fine.”
season. He also led the Knights in receiving yards that year with 718. While Coleman’s opportunities have been limited thanks to a combination of double teams, lack of throws from junior quarterback Gary Nova or other reasons we may never understand, Coleman at least possesses the history that dictates he can find the end zone. Carroo will help Coleman get more opportunities as well. Carroo went from reserve wideout during summer camp to Nova’s go-to target this season. The Edison, N.J., native already has nine touchdowns this season, including eight in the fourth quarter or later. In the Knights’ last game Nov. 2 against Temple, Carroo caught a 33-yard game-winning touchdown, his second touchdown in the fourth quarter and second game-winning score. Carroo’s ability to significantly effect the fourth quarter of close games will undoubtedly attract double teams, opening up the field more for Coleman if Carroo cannot
get open. While Temple elected not to double-team Carroo in its 23-20 loss, other teams will take notice of his effectiveness. While the possibility still exists that Carroo can simply receive the bulk of receptions for the team, the Knights’ remaining schedule at least provides hope that Coleman will find openings downfield for scoring opportunities. Though Cincinnati’s pass defense ranks No. 17 in the country, the Knights’ last three games come against the Nos. 46, 62, and 77 pass defenses in the country — not exactly a murderer’s row of secondary units. Coleman torched Connecticut, which ranks near the bottom of the AAC in pass defense, during his freshman season for 223 yards receiving and two touchdowns. Assuming Rutgers gets one more victory in its next four outings, Coleman will also have another chance in the Knights’ bowl game to break the record.
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For Brandon Coleman, everything seemed to be going according to plan after the Rutgers football team’s first game. Though the Scarlet Knights lost, 52-51, in double overtime against Fresno State, Coleman hauled two touchdowns, giving him 18 career scores. The outing put him two behind former receiver Tim Brown’s program record for a career, and three from possessing the record all to himself. Coleman never found the back of the end zone since, and with the potential to leave for the NFL Draft a reality, he may never break the record. But his history, the emergence of sophomore wideout Leonte Carroo and Rutgers’ remaining schedule provides enough evidence that the Accokeek, Md., native will be atop of the record books in career touchdowns for the Knights. Last season, Coleman caught 10 touchdowns, which tied another program record for most in a single
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Moore, Jack carry RU with clutch shots By Bradly Derechailo Associate Sports Editor
Senior forward Jonelle Filigno is expected to play in Rutgers’ first round NCAA tournament game tomorrow. Filigno was injured in last week’s AAC semifinal. She was named to the AAC First Team last week. DENNIS ZURAW / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Tourney begins with rematch By Lauren Green Contributing Writer
Three months ago, the Rutgers women’s soccer team traveled to Morgantown, W. Va., to face West Virginia in its opening scrimmage. The Scarlet Knights (13-4-4, 5-3-3) fell to the Mountaineers, 3-0. Now the two former Big East members will battle it out again in tomorrow’s NCAA Tournament opening round. Head coach Glenn Crooks believes his team will not look back to the early-season loss. “The preseason game will have very little impact on this match. It was so long ago,” he
said. “I’m sure that both teams have undergone a metamorphosis. … We’re seeing some recent games to get an idea of what they’re doing now and who has an impact for them.” The Mountaineers (16-3-2, 7-1) are coming off a 1-0 win in last Sunday’s Big 12 Championship against Oklahoma State. It helps Rutgers that senior forward Jonelle Filigno, who missed the second half of last Friday’s semifinal and did not play Sunday because of a knee injury, is expected to be available for Saturday, Crooks said Tuesday. But West Virginia enters the tournament ranked No. 12 in the NSCAA poll and No. 15 in the RPI rankings.
The Mountaineers boast another top-scoring offense, leading their conference with 47 goals on the season. Forward Frances Silva leads West Virginia. The senior tops the Big 12 with 15 goals, 13 assists and 43 points. The Knights have plenty of experience in stopping high-powered offenses. Rutgers’ backline held the AAC’s top-two scoring teams, Memphis and Central Florida, scoreless last weekend for 110 minutes apiece. “I think those clean sheets are very meaningful and I think a lot of players really rose to
The Rutgers men’s basketball team shot a dismal 65 percent from the foul line last night against Yale at the Louis Brown Athletic Center. Thankfully for Kadeem Jack, he had no idea. The junior forward sank two foul shots with 14.6 seconds remaining to down the Bulldogs, 72-71, after the Scarlet Knights (21) trailed for most of the second half. “I had to put those behind me because if I thought about it, I would have been lagging and probably would have missed those two,” said Jack, who missed his previous four attempts from the charity strike before the game-clinching foul shots. But with Rutgers down as many as 9 points in the second half, it took a 3-pointer from junior forward J.J. Moore to finally give the Knights their first lead since 2:17 remaining in the first half. Junior guard Jerome Seagears stole the ball from Yale (1-2) and handed it to Moore while Seagears was still on the ground. Moore, who made his first 3-pointer of the game just before, gave the Knights a 70-69 lead with 30 seconds remaining. “I just felt win,” Moore said. “A lot of coaches go for the 2 to just try and get the momentum up, but I just felt like going for the win and I took my chances and it ended up going in.” Yale guard Armani Cotton made two free throws on the Bulldogs’ next possession to give Yale a 71-70 lead with 26 seconds remaining, but Jack’s two attempts were the ones to deliver a victory. Jack had another impressive offensive See SHOTS on Page 14
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Knights hope to ride momentum to AAC Finals By Greg Johnson Associate Sports Editor
As antsy as the Rutgers men’s soccer team is after knocking off top-seeded Louisville last Saturday in the AAC Tournament quarterfinals, it knows its business is unfinished. After all, the Scarlet Knights expected the upset. Despite going winless in its last six regular season games, Rutgers (7-10-2, 2-5-1) believed it just needed to shake off rust in the
(7-3-8, 2-2-4), which the Knights dueled to a double-overtime draw Oct. 19 at Yurcak Field. The winner advances to the AAC Championship on Sunday against either two-seeded Connecticut or three-seeded Central Florida. The fifth-seeded Bulls outshot Rutgers, 1913, in that game, and boast some of the fastest attackers in the conference. Midfielder Lindo Mfeka and forward Edwin Moalosi lead USF with 26 combined points. See FINALS on Page 14
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wake of senior forward Kene Eze returning from injury. “I think going into this tournament we knew that with Kene back and with everyone healthy, we definitely had a chance at doing something special,” said sophomore midfielder Mael Corboz. “Now we have a chance at the semifinals, going to Dallas, which is great, but it means nothing unless we win the tournament and we go to the NCAA Tournament.” A trip to the conference title game is on the line tonight in Frisco, Tex., against South Florida
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middle blocker, collected 12 kills in the Rutgers volleyball team’s last game Sunday against UConn. She added seven blocks to her team-high 86 this season.
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