The Daily Targum 2009-12-10

THE DAILY TARGUM

Volume 141, Number 68

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‘Robin Hood’ leads U. to ‘take out’ extra swipe

BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Spurred by the solicitation of a new take-out meal donation program dubbed “Operation Robin Hood,” the University has limited take-out swipes to only one per student at a time.

Since its creation Monday by University alumnus Charlie Kratovil, the initiative has collected more than 100 meals by asking students to get two take-out meals — permitted under the old policy — and donating one to the group, who would then drive the meals directly to soup kitchens such as New Brunswick’s Elijah’s Promise.

But the group encountered problems Tuesday, when University Dining Services stopped them from asking for donations inside the lobby of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus during the lunchtime take-out period.

“We were just doing the usual … asking people to get a take-out and donate it,” Kratovil said.

Dining Ser vices administrators identified the activity on Tuesday as unauthorized solicitation and took the donated food back. They eventually contacted the Rutgers University Police Department.

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DAN BRACAGLIA/ MULTIMEDIA EDITOR

University Dining Services contact the Rutgers University Police Department, left, to settle Tuesday’s dispute over the donated meals at Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus. University alumnus and city activist Charlie Kratovil, right, carries student-donated take-out meals to local soup kitchen Elijah’s Promise.

Volunteers sing, extend hands to help soup kitchen

INDEX ONLINE Check out our Web site for a more detailed look at the take-out donation controversy and loss of extra meal swipes in a new audio slideshow.

BY JOHN WILDMAN STAFF WRITER

As with most volunteer-based organizations, Elijah’s Promise is struggling to stay afloat through the economic downturn, so the New Brunswick-based soup kitchen has enlisted some help.

Elijah’s Promise Director Lisanne Finston said the organization has been facing significant challenges because of the nation’s economic situation.

“The recession continues to take its toll by way of both increased patrons walking through our doors seeking assistance with food, clothing and other emergency aid, and decreased donations from corporations and foundations, all hit hard by the economy,” Finston said. “Volunteer hours and contributions of funds and supplies help us keep the meals coming.”

To help maintain the services and programs, Tumulty’s Pub on George Street is partnering up with Iguana Music to host a fundraising concert to benefit the soup kitchen, and Elijah’s Promise is continuing to seek the help of other volunteers.

SEE VOLUNTEERS ON PAGE 7

OPINIONS

RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

New Jersey Comedy Festival finalist Bartholomew Battista climbs on top of a table during his standup act last night at the Stress Factory, located downtown. Finalists will compete on Jan. 30 at the

City laughs night away at comedy show

BY HEATHER BROOKHART METRO EDITOR

With a brick wall, a microphone and a spotlight, 14 comedians from colleges all across New Jersey took the stage of the Stress Factor y last night for the New Jersey Comedy Festival.

Comedians performed at the semifinal competition for five min-

utes each, joking about everything from cow tipping to the “Jersey Shore” to dating and sex.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Ben Brosh, Mercer County Community College student Bartholomew Battista and Monmouth University student Kyle Seivced were the three finalists chosen to go on to the final competition, which will be held on January 30 at the University.

The winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize, the Good Humor Award, a scholarship from the Manhattan Comedy School and a chance to perform at the Stress Factory, according to the festival’s official Web site.

Vegas Lancaster, who won the final competition last year, opened up the show.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

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Students fear loss of housing with new policy

BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

After Residence Life Executive Director Joan Carbone stressed the importance of focusing on equality of the housing lottery process while also juggling 8,000 beds, the Busch Campus Council failed to pass a resolution Tuesday night recommending postponement of the new no signback policy.

Council Parliamentarian Jonathan Nycz said he authored and introduced the resolution because he believes the University did not give students ample notice of the shifts in policy.

At the council meeting in the Busch Campus Center, Carbone said postponing the interim policy would be ineffective, as new residence halls will soon be opened.

“In two years we don’t think we’re going to have this problem,” Carbone said. “We intend to put the shovel in the ground in March. In 2011 we’ll be opening 500 more spaces on this campus and in 2012, 1,500 additional spaces on Livingston [campus].”

Nycz, a School of Engineering junior, said the no sign-back poli-

cy is unfair to students who signed their housing contracts thinking they would be able to sign back into the apartment.

Carbone said she did not fully accept Nycz’s premise.

“I would have difficulty believing that many students would not have signed into their apartments if they thought they could only have it for one year,” Carbone said.

Formed in September, a committee of five administrators and six student representatives presented recommendations to Carbone and Vice President of Student Affairs Gregor y S. Blimling. The recommendations were accepted.

Busch campus Dean of Students Michael Stillwagon, who served on the committee, said students who live in apartments now have the same chance of getting bumped off campus as students living in residence halls.

“The University apartments at Silvers had not changed hands in four or five years,” Stillwagon said. “Nobody had gotten into those apartments through the lottery — it was only handed down from one person to one person to one person.”

BUSCH CAMPUS COUNCIL Disproportionately, students who were not in apartments were much more likely to be one of the 2,000 students who did not receive housing, Carbone said.

“There are 2,000 people who have to be pushed off campus, and the people who live here now need it the most.”

JOAN CARBONE Residence Life Executive Director

This year, students who get into the top 5 percent of the lottery pick can sign back into their apartments and into any space not designated for first-year stu-

dents or other special populations, she said.

Most students tend to gravitate to where their classes are, Carbone said.

“The truth is, right now 59 percent of engineering students who live on campus live on Busch, and they’ve done that without a priority,” Carbone said. “We’d like to try and make sure [School of] Engineering and [Ernest Mario School of] Pharmacy [students] are not pushed off this campus and School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Mason Gross [School of the Arts] are not pushed off their campus.”

Carbone said through a manipulation of the process, they are trying to guarantee that at least 20 percent of students will live on the campus where their school is located.

Engineering Governing Council representative Daniel Nurse brought up the challenge of students who have been forced off-campus due to the lotter y process and are then kept out of the lottery the following year.

Carbone said off-campus students requesting housing are put on a wait list.

“The bottom line is there are 2,000 people who have to be pushed off campus and the people who live here now need it the most,” she said.

Stillwagon said the committee agonized over the off-campus lottery conundrum but could not figure out an acceptable strategy to incorporate stranded students.

Carbone said out-of-state students do not receive priority because most of them come from the Northeast region.

“We are also going to accept hardship applications for those students who will be living offcampus [this year],” Carbone said.

School of Arts and Sciences junior Joe Piarulli and Nycz discussed how readmitted students are being offered housing before being readmitted.

Carbone said she would look into that. She said readmitted students do not go through the enrollment pathway.

Much of the housing shortage is caused by increased retention of students who want to stay oncampus, Carbone said.

Admissions indicated that they would be enrolling roughly the same amount of student this year as they did last year, she said.

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SWIPE: Donated foods might be health hazard continued from front “Mr. Kratovil’s actions [Tuesday], although perhaps with good heart and intent, were neither condoned nor approved by proper authorities of Rutgers,” said Executive Director of Dining Services Charles Sams via e-mail correspondence.

Kratovil did not have authorization to solicit inside any dining hall, Sams said. He also did not have the proper credentials or approval to solicit outside Brower.

A sign in the lobby of Brower says no solicitation is allowed, and Kratovil said missing it was an honest mistake.

Tabling is authorized through Sams’ office, and free speech space through the office of the College Avenue Dean of Students Tim Grimm, Sams said.

Furthermore, the approval process has been around for a long time and is limited to recognized student organizations and occasionally University departments, he said.

“It is my understanding that Mr. Kratovil is no longer a Rutgers student. Once he refused to comply with policy, RUPD was involved,” Sams said.

After negotiation, RUPD officers informed Kratovil the food that was taken would be donated as long as the group agreed to keep solicitation to the steps of Brower.

Sams said the group could not take the confiscated meals back

for a variety of reasons, but in the end, some went with them.

Kratovil and his group returned outside Brower yesterday during lunch to solicit students to donate, but was unable to get many donations as Dining Services had created the new individual swipe policy for take-out.

“We’ve encountered abuse in the take-out swipe usage and are working on a solution; pending such, we are returning to the individual swipe per student,” Sams said.

RUPD was contacted again after administrators told Kratovil he did not have a permit to solicit outside, a free speech zone, and asked the group to move below the steps, Kratovil said.

Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen Director Yvette Molina said the food donated by Operation Robin Hood has been used to help the homeless, but the soup kitchen is still learning about the new program.

Sams said the sanitary nature of the removed foods is uncertain, and its handling, content and time until consumption are important in determining if the food is safe to eat.

Middlesex County Health Department Spokesman John Dowd said Health Director David Papi has said their department has been advised by the Rutgers’ Division of Dining Services and they are investigating the matter.

“It’s packaged food, it’s exactly what they’re looking for, we bring it while it’s still warm.

There’s no health hazard here,” Kratovil said.

U NIVERSITY The group keeps records of when the food is donated and when it is delivered to make sure they do it quickly to keep the food hot, he said.

Although solicitation is not permitted without a permit and the safety of the program was in question, Sams said it brings up other concerns.

The University’s “Meal Swipe for Charity” program already allows student organizations the

“People are hungry.

Why not feed hungry people?

It’s my money, why can’t I do what I want to do with it?”

JAMERA SIRMAS School of Arts and Sciences sophomore

opportunity to lobby the Rutgers University Student Assembly, Sams said. The charity chosen then receives the money from the donated swipes not food, whether it’s fresh or frozen.

“This practice removes any potential for loss of food safety or possible illness to the intended user,” he said.

Guest swiping for RUSAapproved charities is permitted, but other wise guest swipes are intended only if a student has another person with them, Sams said.

“The generic swiping of a meal for a guest is not allowed …

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M Energies outside the approval process are considered inappropriate and, as [of] today, not allowed,” he said.

There is also a financial component critical to the situation, Sams said He said many students do not realize they have not paid for the face value of their plan. For example, the purchase price of a 285 is about 35 percent to 40 percent less than the actual value of 285 meals.

“This [is] because the University pre-discounts the plan based upon the average usage,” Sams said.

Averages show students use about 170 of the 285 meals and are then charged only for that value, he said.

“This little known fact complicates actions such as those today since, in effect, the ‘donated’ meal may never have been paid for in the first place,” Sams said. “That’s why the charity swipe program uses ‘guest meals’ which are financially accounted for and available for donation or use.”

Kratovil said the purpose of creating the group was to help the hungry in New Brunswick while at the same time helping students use extra meal swipes in their plans.

“In New Brunswick, you have the most fortunate people — Rutgers students with meal plans,” Kratovil said. “[Students] are ver y lucky to have a meal plan where each meal is $10 to $15 that [their] parents or [they] pay, so to waste those is really a travesty.”

School of Arts and Sciences first-year student John Maltz had signed up to volunteer for Operation Robin Hood yesterday but was angry when he found out the initiative was stopped.

“I’m just trying to help people out, and apparently the University isn’t letting me do that,” he said.

Rutgers College senior Catherine Suarez said she was upset with the policy change.

“I’m ver y disturbed that I couldn’t get two swipes, because today was my busy day with classes and I couldn’t have that extra swipe.”

School of Arts and Sciences sophomore Jamera Sirmans was approached by Kratovil during the lunch take-out period and wanted to donate because she had extra meals in her plan and believed in the cause.

When Dining Ser vices stopped her, she did not let it bother her. But when she returned for take-out dinner and found out she still could not swipe twice, she became upset.

“I don’t see the point in it being just one meal swipe,” Sirmans said. “We pay for our swipes. Whether or not we want to use them for our own purposes or for anyone — we pay for it.”

She said at the end of every semester, she feels she is losing money because she has so many extra meals.

“It would have went for a good cause,” Sirmans said. “People are hungry. Why not feed hungry people? It’s my money, why can’t I do what I want to do with it?”

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Lottery changes spur uproar over Cook campus priority

BY BRETT WILSHE STAFF WRITER

Issues and thoughts about University Residence Life and Housing’s recent lottery reform cooked up a lengthy debate at the SEBS/Cook Council general body meeting on Monday, lasting almost twice the time it was designated to.

The Residence Life’s Lottery Review Committee partly stripped housing priority from School of Environmental and Biological Sciences and Mason Gross School of the Arts students.

Students on the College Avenue, Cook and Busch campuses wishing to sign their apartment back in subsequent semesters must be in the top 5 percent of the lottery to do so, according to an e-mail sent out by

Executive Director of Residence Life Joan Carbone.

“We had to make a decision for all students and not just for students on Cook campus,” Carbone said.

The majority of the council was unhappy with the decision.

Twelve representing members were present, and only dissenting points were made.

Council Parliamentarian Daniel Clark raised a matter of inequity.

“SEBS students pay an extra tuition fee. I’m well aware of the fact that this does not go to Housing,” said Clark, a Cook College senior. “However, it does mainly go to Facilities located on the Cook campus.”

Council Treasurer Daniel Fiumecaldo bolstered Clark’s complaint with concerns about the timeliness of research for

SEBS/ COOK Council School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students.

“Our students have to be at their facilities by 6 a.m. for research,” said Fiumecaldo, a Cook College senior. “How can they get here from Busch if the buses aren’t even running then?”

Carbone persisted with the committee’s decision.

“The University is overbooked by 2,000 students. SEBS has been the only school exempt from that hardship process,” she said. “You have to realize that we know it is not the best solution, but in terms of all students, it is the fairest one.”

Out of the 10 members in the lottery review committee, four of them were School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students, Carbone said.

Some worried that students may be discouraged from choosing a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences major if they could not find adequate housing on Cook campus, but Carbone assured them that firstyear student, on-campus housing would continue to be ample and guaranteed.

Public Relations Chair and a School of Environmental and Biological Sciences sophomore Zaid Abuhouran felt extending priority to School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students was justified.

“College [Avenue], Livingston and Busch [campuses] are very

well connected, but Cook is isolated, he said. “Students walking down Suydam Street pass Remsen Avenue, [they] hear about shootings a lot, and it’s a dangerous area.

Transportation and safety were not accounted for, and it’s going to be a huge issue next year.”

Carbone felt concerns were overblown.

Residence Life and Housing will guarantee that 20 percent of Cook campus will be reserved for School of Environmental and Biological Sciences majors, and she said a much higher percentage of School of Environmental and Biological Sciences students will be living on Cook campus either way.

Even without priority, 59 percent of Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy students were able to get housing on Busch campus, Carbone said.

Domestic Violence Services address abuse among LGBT

BY SPRUHA MAGODIA STAFF WRITER

Everyone raised their hands when Lisa Smith, coordinator of Domestic Violence Ser vices, asked if anyone knew someone who had been sexually assaulted at the University.

One of the events of the “16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence Campaign” was a discussion on “Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in the LGBT Community” held Tuesday at the Center for Latino Arts and Culture on the College Avenue campus.

“We are going to talk about some serious information.

Especially because it’s a present issue on the college campus,” said Shawnna James, co-president of LLEGO, the People of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex and Ally Color Union at the University.

Smith told the audience that most assaults are not reported.

Less than 10 percent of dating violence is brought to the attention of authorities.

The insecurities and fears people have when it comes to homophobia and heterosexism can manifest as domestic violence and sexual assault in the lesbian community.

“People thought the term ‘lesbian battery’ was an oxymoron … like jumbo shrimp,” said Smith.

“People thought it was the men that were the problem and relationships among women were called lesbian utopia. But women can be violent to each other and can also abuse men.”

There are three different types of sexual assaults concerning lesbians, she said.

One is sexual assault between two women in general, another between two women in a relation-

ship, and when someone is targeted because they are perceived as being a lesbian, Smith said.

Fear and shame are two main reasons so much sexual assault goes unreported, she said.

A victim experiencing “internalized homophobia” will not report the abuse if they feel the assault was deserved because of their particular sexual orientation.

Although sexual assault is difficult for anyone to go through, the way heterosexual women handle the effects can be different.

“Straight women don’t have to deal with homophobia,” Smith said.

“They don’t have to worry about orientation or gender identity.”

There is a dif ference between sexual assault and domestic violence.

“Sexual assault is a single act that can happen,” said Smith. “Domestic violence is a pattern of behavior that will escalate over time.”

Smith said students think domestic violence has to do only with older, married people.

“I don’t like the term ‘dating violence’ because then people think it is less serious,” she said.

In fact, the two types of violence have the same fear, same trauma and the same potential danger.

“It is not easy to leave an abusive relationship,” Smith said. “They may try to get out, but the abuser doesn’t always take no for an answer.”

There is a difference between a jerk and an abuser, she said. It all depends on the intent of the behavior. If an abuser says things out of anger it is one thing, but an entirely different thing if their intent is to destroy self esteem so they have control.

“What if your friend is in a violent relationship and cannot see the violence but others can?” asked Christine Looi, a Livingston College senior.

Smith said it is up to the people in a relationship to determine and report abuse.

“The short answer is that we can’t do anything,” she said. “We can share concern. But give them our [Domestic Violence Services] phone number and make up a reason if you have to.”

Smith warns that as a concerned friend, one should not approach the abuser because the victim is going to be the one to face the consequences.

“When you know something doesn’t feel right [bring] attention to it and call services,” Smith said. “What’s really important to me is for students to know they have a place to go to for help here at Rutgers.”

The Rutgers Sexual Assault Ser vices and Crime Victim Assistance office is located on 3 Bartlett St. on the College Avenue campus.

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LIBRARY EXTENDS HOURS FOR FINALS With finals just around the corner, Alexander Library on the College Avenue campus has announced extended hours to accommodate crunch time.

For the duration of the final exams period, from Sunday until next Wednesday, December 23, the entire library will be open 24 hours everyday except Friday and Saturday, said Harry Glazer, senior public relations specialist for University Libraries, in an e-mail correspondence.

In previous years, only the first floor Reference Room and the Undergraduate Reading Room were open for the whole day, he said.

In addition to extended hours, reser ve materials will be available all night.

“Now, we give you the whole building,” Glazer said. “Come in and enjoy the additional study spaces. We’ll keep the lights on for you.”

More final period librar y hours for all University Libraries can be found at http://www.libraries.rut gers.edu/rul/h_and_d/ 09_fall/fall_exam.shtml.

— Sara Gretina

CALENDAR DECEMBER Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of H o m e l a n d Security (DHS) selected Rutgers University as co-lead for a new DHS Center of Excellence to conduct research into the technological issues involved with maintaining homeland security. The University will hold a kickoff event in the first floor lecture hall of the CoRE Building on Busch Campus to honor the construction of a $30 million homeland security research center.

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The Unplugged Rutgers Board Game Club will be having its weekly meeting at 7 p.m. at the BCC Room 174. Come by to meet new people, chow down on food and try some board games that you have never seen. They play ever ything from Chess to Last Night on Earth, a zombie-survival horror game.

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COMEDY: Festival only open to NJ college students continued from front The College of New Jersey alumnus said the festival brings out a wide range of talent from college students.

“There’s a lot of fresh comedians in New Jersey colleges who are really good, and it’s great that the festival’s here to pull them out and there’s plenty of people who this is their first time per-

VOLUNTEERS: Food to be collected during concert continued from front The benefit concert, scheduled for Dec. 19 at 8 p.m., will collect canned goods and a $10 door fee, said Elijah’s Promise Americorps member Paul Helms.

“Fundraisers like this help to bring in much needed resources to keep us going,” Finston said.

“The Elijah’s Promise story is one of sharing. Ever y deed, every dollar makes a difference.”

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forming,” he said. “But it’s great for them to have the opportunity to come out and try it.”

New Jersey Comedy Festival Founder Dennis Hedlund, Festival Co-Producer David Stein and actor Frank Albanese judged the competition.

“The New Jersey Comedy Festival is in its third year, [it’s open to] only college students and it’s been a really wonderful, rewarding experience for us,” Hedlund said.

Monmouth University juniors Sarah Freeman and Jessica Pino

came out to support their friend Seivced who was performing.

“Apparently anyone can sign up for this, so I’m expecting some people are not going to do that well but some people are going to do well … I love comedy,” Freeman said.

She and Pino said the Stress Factory provided a much more comfortable, relaxed and unbiased setting as compared to a school auditorium, where previous competitions were held.

“Anything beats studying for finals,” Freeman said.

Brosh was one of seven University students who competed last night.

“Women complain that men are not romantic enough … it’s tough these days to be romantic, especially in New Jersey. Pretty much the most romantic thing you can do here, besides go to Six Flags … is go to New York,” he said in his act.

School of Arts and Sciences senior Pavan Katepalli joked about being a super-senior and TCNJ student Jason Cantor talked about being a senior in college and gaining the “freshman 35.”

Competitors also hailed from schools such as Rowan University and Mercer County Community College.

Adam Mamawala, winner of the festival in 2007, said the event was held at the Stress Factory so students whose schools did not have a large enough venue to host a competition could participate, and so those who did not get through the first round could get another chance.

Mamawala, a TCNJ alumnus, said this was the first time the festival was held at a venue like the comedy club.

Promise, University alumna Diana Malyshko said.

“Any time I’ve been there, the volunteers are responsible for a good portion of the work.

Volunteers prepare the food and ser ve the food,” Malyshko said. “Without the volunteers, I don’t think this establishment can be successful.”

Rutgers Bonner Leader Program Coordinator Enrique Noguera said the University lends support to Elijah’s Promise through regular volunteers as well as a committed set of volunteers through a new program.

“Sixteen Rutgers sophomores and juniors have been enrolled in

a service based program new to the University called the Rutgers Bonner Leader Program,” Noguera said. “Six of the Bonner students are placed at Elijah’s Promise Soup Kitchen. Five serve as general volunteers while one ser ves as a Food Stamp Outreach Interpreter.”

Helms said Elijah’s Promise always welcomes the help of volunteers, especially during holiday season, as there is typically a shortage of volunteers after New Year’s.

“If groups want to organize volunteering events with Elijah’s Promise, that would be greatly beneficial,” Helms said.

Elijah’s Promise also accepts donations of food or money.

Students, despite tuition costs and housing costs, can still find ways to donate.

“I think students can donate food especially because students have an abundance of canned foods and packaged foods,” Malyshko said. “If you can open your pantry and see foods that you’re not going to eat, you can donate these foods to the soup kitchen.”

Elijah’s Promise plays a variety of roles to support the New Brunswick community. This includes providing health screenings, culinary arts and entrepreneurial job training, as well as par-

ticipating in Adopt-a-Family projects and serving nutritious meals seven days per week to its clients, Helms said.

“It’s hard to imagine New Brunswick without Elijah’s Promise,” Helms said. “This organization’s presence is needed and would be greatly missed. Elijah’s Promise connects the community, serves and empowers the less fortunate and provides space for the average citizen to connect with those in different situations in life.”

Those interested in volunteering individually can sign up online at http://www.elijahspromise.net.

Groups can contact Mike Sayre at msayre@elijahspromise.net.

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ollege nicknames often represent the school’s history or traditions, and a greater part of the student population takes pride in that. In University of North Dakota’s case, however, brings up political issues that have been at hand for years. According to The New York Times, the Fighting Sioux could be another collegiate pseudonym dropped due to a number of students that have deemed it offensive and hostile. About 400 Native American students at the school find the image of the Fighting Sioux “hurtful” and “harmful,” and have been in negotiations to change the nickname. While this established mascot has been around for years, the number of students who oppose it could serve its firing orders.

A chief opponent to this change is the Spirit Lake Tribe, a local Sioux tribe who says that they consider the name an honor. The truth is that Sioux tribes have had a long history in North Dakota, and the nickname is simply representative of that history. Frank Black Cloud, a tribal member said, “When you hear them announce the name at the start of a hockey game, it gives you goose bumps … they are putting us up on a pinnacle.” In a way, it has become a way for preservation of a culture stretching back to times before Europeans set foot on this continent.

While UND has been the focal point of this issue, other institutions have had similar conflicts on their campuses. William and Mary, for example, changed its logo from a feather-decorated symbol to a simple “W&M.” Certain people could also consider the Washington Redskins and the New York Yankees racist or offensive, however, the likelihood of their change is low because of the money involved. The NCAA has addressed the University of North Dakota case and said that the school’s spot in championships could be uncertain. This entire debacle has separated young and old; Eunice Davidson, 57, said, “I am fullblood and I grew up on this reservation … I have to tell you, I am very, very honored that they would use the name.”

The fact is that a name does not immediately perpetuate a stereotype, and the same goes in this case. The majority of students who have complained have been of the Navajo tribe; therefore it should be none of their concern. The Fighting Sioux would remain the same school with the same students and professors, and a change on sports scoreboards should not ultimately affect a school of 13,000 people. In this legal standoff, top attorneys will fight for the side that pays them more and will hopefully come to a decision that protects the culture of the people and not their sensitive exteriors.

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harlie Kratovil stood outside of Brower Commons on the College Avenue campus Tuesday asking students to donate an extra take-out swipe to a local soup kitchen, Elijah’s Promise.

Kratovil said he had distributed more than 100 donated meals to needy people all over New Brunswick, but this time he was stopped by University Dining Services Director Charlie Sams and told that the food he had just collected from numerous students would be confiscated and destroyed.

Sams’ decision seems to run contradictory to major University initiatives. First, the University has made it well known that they are substantial supporters in stopping hunger — Rutgers Against Hunger has raised more than $100,000 and procured more than 53,000 pounds of food. So how is it possible that the University created an anti-hunger initiative but is against meal-swipes going toward ending hunger? If the University is fully committed to stopping hunger they should start in their own community. Sams and his employees destroyed 12 meals — 12 meals that could have allowed 12 hungry people to go to bed with food in their stomachs. It is a travesty that food, paid for by students, was discarded without their permission when they believed that it was going toward fighting hunger. Furthermore, Sams made a policy decision yesterday dictating that students will tentatively be allowed only one meal-swipe per takeout visit. This is a strike not only against those who are working tirelessly to help the needy but hungry students as well. Students should not be punished for trying to do a good thing and — for those who did not participate — for doing nothing.

Sams’ decision to limit student usage of personal meal-swipes further restricts personal freedoms students have when using their mealswipes. While the cost of meal plans is determined by the average number of meals used by students using the meal plan, students should have the right to use their meals how they please. If students have extra meal-swipes, they should be able to swipe their cards for as many people and as many times as they possess, especially during a time when so many people are going hungry.

Kratovil’s Robin Hood-like program is doing good for people during a time when they need it most. While the program cannot and should not continue over a long period of time, Dining Services should stop being grinches and throwing out donated food. Sams is correct that this scheme would ultimately cost students with higher fees, but nothing good comes from destroying food.

The Daily Targum hopes that in the future a greater collaboration can take place between grassroots organizations in the city and Dining Services to donate food that is evidently going to be discarded by Dining Services to

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fter three months and those judgments will of professedly be made by our commandexhaustive strateers in the field.” If we gizing with top advisors, ignore the first three on December 1, President words, this sound bite is Barack Obama announced vir tually indistinguishable that the United States from any other I have would send an additional heard from the U.S. JOSH BAKER 30,000 soldiers to fight Department of Defense for members of al-Qaida in the past decade. I am willAfghanistan. The additional forces will be ing to bet that 18 months from now, our comdeployed over the next six months, the presimanders in the field will again be calling for yet dent stated in his address, and the U.S. will more billions of tax dollars and yet more thoubegin to reduce levels of U.S. militar y personnel sands of young soldiers in order to augment in July 2011. Within a week, however, top White their virtually unbounded campaign and continHouse of ficials star ted to shy away from any ue their pursuit of al-Qaida in Pakistan and other suggestion of a troop withdrawal deadline. It nations. Indeed, Obama himself stated plainly, in has become increasingly apparent that, rather his speech last week, that the “struggle against than devising any sor t of new war strategy, the violent extremism will not be finished quickly, president has decided to stay the course set by and it extends well beyond Afghanistan and his notorious predecessor, former President Pakistan.” At this rate, I would not be surprised George W. Bush. This essentially grants, in full, if Obama starts calling for the invasion of Iran the requests of the U.S. commander in before the end of his first year in office.

Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. Beyond his decidedly “W”McChr ystal, and asks the esque strategy in the so-called American people to suppor t a “...the strategy Obama global war on terror, Obama plan remarkably similar to the also seems to have taken Iraq troop surge, something endorsed last week marks numerous other pages from Obama criticized so relentlessa striking departure from the 43rd president’s playbook. ly last year. While the openAs War ren Richey of the his campaign promise ended nature of Operation Christian Science Monitor has Enduring Freedom has been obser ved, the current administo end the conflicts of clear since the campaign began tration “has embraced Mr. indefinite duration...” in the fall of 2001, the strategy Bush’s law of war philosophy Obama endorsed last week justifying the potential indefimarks a striking depar ture nite detention of terror susfrom his campaign promise to end the conflicts pects deemed by Obama to be too dif ficult to of indefinite duration and expense initiated the put on trial, but also too dangerous to release. previous administration and championed by the Administration of ficials are hinting that Obama neoconser vative movement. may fail to fulfill his pledge to close the In order to discern the true nature of the war Guantánamo prison camp by Januar y. A new policies of the Obama administration, we need version of the controversial militar y commisonly obser ve Defense Secretar y Rober t M. sion process is expected to emerge soon from Gates’s comments of last week: “In July 2011, Congress. And construction continues for a our generals are confident that they will know new, expanded ter ror prison camp at the whether our strategy is working, and the plan is Bagram air base in Afghanistan.” Hope Metcalf, to begin transferring areas of responsibility for director of Director of the National Litigation security over to the Afghan security forces […]

Project of the Allard K. Lowenstein But the pace […] of bringing [U.S. troops] International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law home, and where we will bring them home from SEE BAKER ON PAGE 9 will depend on the circumstances on the ground,

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University sports year in review T

his year was supposed to be the next step for Rutgers football.

The veteran offensive line was returning completely, with legit NFL stud prospect Anthony Davis as the anchor. They had a senior quarterback returning — albeit without any career starts — but at least he could provide some leadership. The two-headed running back monster of Joe Martinek and Jourdan Brooks returned, as was Kordell Young. The defense had all its key cogs returning, aside from Pete Tverdov and Courtney Greene. In the words of Eric Foster, it was supposed to be “R Year.”

This season’s freshmen class was regarded as the best in school histor y, anchored by linebacker Antwan Lower y, running back DeAntwan Williams and quarterback Tom Savage. It was all looking up. This was supposed to be even better than 2006. The Scarlet Knights were the favorites in the watered-down Big East, even picked by ESPN.com’s Brian Bennett and Sports Illustrated’s Stewart Mandel. Then Cincinnati came to town.

Just as the revamped stadium opened, RU’s window to win the Big East closed — or more accurately — slammed shut.

Dom Natale put on a show, at least to Cincinnati fans, in the first half with three interceptions and the defense couldn’t figure out how to stop Cincy’s dreaded five-yard curl route that it seemed to run every single play. It was just embarrassing looking back. Some of my friends and I painted our chests for this game, spelling “Go Rutgers,” and by the third quarter, we were down to an “R” and a “G.” The rest had left or put their shirts back on. They didn’t want to risk getting put on ESPN when the school was being

BAKER continued from page 8 School has suggested that the Bagram prison camp “is becoming Obama’s Guantánamo,” adding that the “situation at Bagram is, if anything, far worse than Guantánamo … at Bagram, there are no lawyers, no cour ts, and essentially no hope.”

Perhaps most egregiously of all, Obama has also seen fit to renew three key provisions of the USA Patriot Act which were set to expire at the end of this year. “The president’s reversal on [the] Patriot Act reform is a major travesty,” said Michelle Richardson of the American Civil Liber ties Union. “Overall, the Obama administration has made marginal improvements but is largely a continuation of the Bush administration with respect to civil liber ties,” she continued. Four years ago, while at the time a member of

embarrassed on ated. Destroyed. national television.

Taken down.

To be honest, Overpowered.

Rutgers never really Outcoached. Outrecovered from that hustled. Take your game. Sure, for the pick. My favorite next month, the is: embarrassed. A Knights got to beat MATTHEW TORINO team with no talup on patsies from ent, without its the Football best receiver, with Championship Subdivision and other fairly a basketball player at quar terback for awful football teams. Even while beating much of the game took down the overMaryland by double digits, RU still just did confident team that had just shutout not look very strong; it seemed to be strug- South Florida. Rutgers wasn’t prepared gling against teams a casual fan would while this was the Super Bowl to assume it would win by 40 points. Even the Syracuse. This pretty much ruined any game against Florida International, a team chance of going to the Gator Bowl as most famous for getting the committee would into a brawl with Miami a take RU over West “The Scarlet Knights only couple years ago, came Virginia if the Knights down to an onside kick at were the favorites in were clearly the more the end. The team barely deser ving team. Well, the watered-down Big that wasn’t going to looked better than Louisville and Syracuse. now.

East, even picked by happen The team needed a Rutgers easily rolled miracle to get by over Louisville the next ESPN.com’s Brian Connecticut on week — like it should Bennett ... ” Halloween following a have done to Syracuse hear tbreaking loss — with the Mohamed against the Fighting Sanu wildcat finally provWannstaches and a win in a game that ing he had some worth. At least Sanu’s never should have been that close 148 yards was better than the previous against Army. owner of the Rutgers wildcat offense But then, out of nowhere, they waxed ever had.

South Florida by 31 points. Savage seemed Then against West Virginia, the to be arriving and ready to take on Knights at least had a chance to go to Southern California’s Matt Barkley as the the Meineke Car Care Bowl, and the best true freshman quarterback in the defense did its par t as Rutgers torcountry. The defense was unstoppable, and menter Jarrett Brown was held in check the team just looked flat-out dominant. as was the most electrifying player in the Then our triumphant team went to Big East, Noel Devine. But unfortunateSyracuse’s Carrier Dome. It got obliter- ly, Savage did his best Jamarcus Russell

the U.S. Senate, Obama derided the act, claiming it granted too much power with too little oversight. He now sees fit to allow the government to collect private information about individuals through warrantless wiretaps of telephone and e-mail accounts, to seize citizens records from banks, libraries and Internet ser vice providers, and to expand the conditions under which one may be accused of providing terrorists with “material suppor t.” It would seem that those who have contended since his inauguration that Obama is shepherding our countr y in the wrong direction are indeed correct. I would only add that the president’s moral and political failures owe his similarities to — rather than his dif ferences from — Bush.

Josh Baker is a Rutgers College senior majoring in sociology. He welcomes feedback at jbake74@eden.rutgers.edu. His column, “Zeitgeist,” runs on alternate Wednesdays.

From the Sidelines

impression out there: completing only 9of-27 passes for one touchdown and two interceptions. Watching the game from the student section, I wondered whether we even broke double digits in first downs. Somehow we ended up with 11, but the number seemed closer to half of that. The of fense would just r un Martinek up the middle for one or two yards on first down, run Sanu for anywhere from negative to positive three yards on second down, and most likely, leave Savage to throw an incompletion on third and long. The offense was doing things not seen outside of the Oakland Raiders. Ever yone took a beating, from the mediocre receivers to the freshman quarterback, to the overrated offensive line.

For next year, hopefully the offensive training wheels come off. Offensive coordinator Kirk Ciarrocca did mentor a bigtime offense at Delaware that featured current NFL starter Joe Flacco, so at least there’s potential for a high-octane offense that most Rutgers fans have been waiting for. The defense loses two of its best players in Ryan D’Imperio and Devin McCourty, but young players like David Rowe and Steve Beauharnis will have matured and will hopefully be able to take their place. As long as Savage continues to mature and doesn’t regress like Barkley at USC, the team should progress but please Greg Schiano — somehow, someway — don’t let them get off to their third horrendous start in a row.

Matthew Torino is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science. His column, “From the Sidelines” runs on alternate Thursdays.

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SURGE: N’Diaye stars in first start for Echenique continued from back modest crowd of 4,054 to its feet.

“I don’t think I could have got up [for the fourth one],” N’Diaye said. “But I definitely would have went up for it. I was tired after those three and was surprised I got the third one. I got it with the tip of my hand, but I’m just glad I had them.”

The 29 minutes were also a season-high for N’Diaye and, with Echenique on the shelf, he’s going to have to play big minutes. “[N’Diaye] never paces himself and that’s what I love about him — his passion, his energy and his enthusiasm for the game,” said Rutgers head coach Fred Hill Jr. “He gets tired so you may see him go up and down the cour t and not look like the same guy; he just tired. Some of that energy he brings gets him tired quick.

He’s like the Energizer Bunny.”

Monmouth was led by Travis Taylor, who scored 12 first-half points on six-of-nine shooting. Taylor finished with a team-high 20 points.

Junior for ward Jonathan Mitchell chipped in nine points for the Scarlet Knights on 4-of10 shooting, helping lead Rutgers to 18 points of f 22 Monmouth turnovers.

Rutgers continued to get to the charity stripe at a solid pace but sank just 20 of its 33 attempts — a 60.6 percent rate.

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North Carolina, Big East play loom over break on South Florida — one of the two Big East teams the Knights beat last season.

BY STEVEN MILLER CORRESPONDENT

Try replacing 12.6 points and 7.7 rebounds every game.

That is what the Rutgers m e n ’ s basketball team has KNIGHT to do in NOTEBOOK t h e absence of sophomore forward Gregory Echenique for the next month.

Over a nine-game winter break slate that features four ranked opponents and five Big East teams, the Scarlet Knights have to find a new source of production in the middle. Senior center Hamady N’Diaye staked his claim against Monmouth last night, but he is still a source of concern.

“Gregory is a little bit of a better back-to-the-basket player,” said Rutgers head coach Fred Hill Jr. “They’re totally two different type of players and that’s a great luxury to have, so that’s a big concern. Together they’ve been unbelievably productive.”

The team has two more New Jersey non-conference games to test the waters before getting into the brunt of the schedule.

The Knights then travel to Chapel Hill, N.C., for a meeting with No. 11 North Carolina.

The last UNC matchup of the three-year series with the perennial powers sets off a string of three straight games against ranked opponents after the New Year.

“You don’t want to look to far ahead, because we’ve got a great team in Rider coming up, which coach Hill said has a few NBA

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Monmouth’s Justin Sofman transferred from RU to the Hawks two years ago. He scored eight points last night and pulled in six boards. prospects,” said junior forward Devin Ebanks, who combine to Jonathan Mitchell. “The Big East average 32 points per game. But is there, but you don’t want to Keno Davis’ Providence squad look too far ahead and lose a lost four starters from last seagame that we shouldn’t lose.” son’s senior-laden team.

The Knights first host No. 19 No. 7 Syracuse also lost their Cincinnati, featuring Lance stars, but finds itself in the top-10 Stephenson, one of the best fresh- after beating UNC at Madison men in the nation. The next pair Square Garden earlier in the seaof games are on the road against son. The game will be played at the two very different teams — No. 6 Louis Brown Athletic Center, which West Virginia and Providence. the Orange faithfully filled last seaThe Mountaineers return all son in the Jonny Flynn show. of their key players, including The winter break campaign for wards Da’Sean Butler and ends with a trip to Tampa to take

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yet again for the Knights, but failed to produce.

The sophomore for ward made a surprising splash in the season opener with 15 points, but has not replicated the success since, something Hill attributed to inexperience.

Jackson played just 10 minutes and went 0-for-6 from the field, while freshman Dane Miller played a majority of the game in his position.

The Henrietta, N.Y., native earned a standing ovation after diving into the scorer’s table for a loose ball and sparking a 6-0 run to extend the RU lead to 13 in the second half.

“Coach has been harping on us about something called ‘winning plays’ … little things that don’t fill up a stat sheet, but help win the game,” Mitchell said.

“When Dane did that, it just clicked — we were excited and tried to get the crowd involved in the game.”

Miller scored just six points, but grabbed six rebounds.

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return to the RAC last night.

The junior guard transferred to Monmouth after playing his freshman season at Rutgers and started for the Hawks.

Sofman played 28 minutes and scored eight points including a pair of three-pointers to quadruple his average scoring output from his lone season with the Knights.

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WERNEKE ADDS QUARTET OF RECRUITS The Rutgers volleyball team signed four high school standVOLLEYBALL outs, head coach CJ Werneke announced Tuesday in a press release.

The Scarlet Knights welcome Brittany Bozzini, Sheridan Taylor, Mariah Hor vath and Tif fany Regmund to Werneke’s third recruiting class.

Bozzini, a right-side middle blocker, played with Archbishop Mitty High School — the No. 1 ranked team in the countr y according to PrepVolleyball.com.

Taylor won back-to-back state and national championships her freshman and sophomore years. She was also a 2007 Junior Olympic gold medalist.

Hor vath earned first team Palomar All-League Honors this year. She was also a member of the Epic Volleyball club.

Regmund led her team to a 25th place finish in the 2009 Junior Olympic National Championships.

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LEVEL: Dellefave making strides at 125-pound class continued from back “We brought him in the same way as everyone else, including myself last year,” Langel said.

“He practiced with us over the summer and he picked up things pretty quick. He is already a high caliber wrestler, there were just a few kinks he needed to smooth over and he’s been fixing them.”

Having two or more quality wrestlers at one weight class rais-

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New Years Invitational kicks off winter seasons

BY MELISSA FALICA STAFF WRITER

JEFF LAZARO/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Rutgers head coach CJ Werneke welcomes four new talents to the Banks next season in his third recruiting class. es competition in the practice room and, according to Goodale, it’s a necessity to have both quality and quantity at all levels.

“One thing that I have learned in my first three years here at Rutgers is that you are going to need two good guys in each weight class,” he said. “It’s something that we have been hoping to work toward and at the moment we are strongest at 125-pounds.”

Looking to the future, there is a possibility that Dellefave will move up to the 133-pound weight class when junior Bill Ashnault graduates, allowing

both him and Langel to crack the starting lineup.

“We are thinking about moving him up, but a year at 125 was something that he needed,” Goodale said. “The tentative plan is to have him redshirt next year and then bumping him up a weight class.”

Dellefave is open to the idea of moving up.

“I’m one of the bigger guys at 125 so I’ll probably move up in a couple of years,” he said. “I’ll do whatever the team needs me to do. My goal is to not only win a championship for myself, but for the team to win one too.”

With the end of every fall semester comes the beginning of the winter track and field season.

For the TRACK & FIELD Rutgers men’s track and field team, its season begins Friday at the New Years Invitational.

On the other hand, the women’s track and field team doesn’t face its first competition of the winter season until Jan. 9 at the Penn State Relays.

Regardless of when they first hit the track, both look to continue the successful winter and spring seasons they had last year.

The men’s team started last winter’s season with a bang at the New Years Invitational compiling seven Big East qualifying marks in field events, in addition to those the team locked down on the track, and continued with an impressive first place victory as a team overall at the Metropolitan Invitational.

Their accomplishments were far from over as six Knights received All-Big East honors at the Big East Outdoor Championships in May and sent seven to the NCAA East Regionals.

The women’s team also started off last winter strong and had nine top-10 finishes in the Valentine’s Day Invitational and 16 athletes qualify for the Big East Indoor Championships, four of whom were seeded in the event.

Similar to their male counterparts, they continued full speed into the spring season where seniors Pavielli Vega and Michelle Gomes, junior Jamie Walker and sophomore Brittini Rodriguez set

the school record for the 4x200 relay with a time of 1:37.82.

Though happy with last season’s results, head coach James Robinson said there is room to improve on that season.

“We’re looking to be in the middle of the conference right now,” he said. “That’s what we’re looking for with both indoor and outdoor, so that’s the goal going in.”

To meet that goal, the Knights prepared — and continue to prepare — with high training and conditioning levels.

“The jumpers are jumping, the hurdlers are hurdling, the throwers are doing all of the throwing training so that’s the phase we’re in right now,” Robinson said.

He expects this year’s team to be even better than last year’s, not only in terms of performance but also in terms of talent.

Despite the loss of last year’s seniors, Robinson said that the core of the team is still there and the incoming freshmen class adds to that core’s abilities.

“Our team is very young and the core of it that scored points last year is here so we’re in pretty good shape, and we’ve added a pretty good freshman class that will help us score more points this year, so this will be a better all around team,” he said.

That said, Robinson is expecting nothing less than a stellar performance at the Penn State Relays.

“Even though it’s our first meet, at that point we will have about five months of training,” Robinson said. “I’d like to think that we can come out aggressive and have high expectations for the first meet.”

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enior cornerback Devin McCourty and junior left tackle Anthony Davis both earned All-Big East first team honors for their play this season.

McCourty led the Rutgers football team with 78 tackles on the year and excelled on special teams, blocking three kicks and returning a kickoff for a touchdown.

Senior wide receiver Tim Brown made the second team, pulling in career highs in yards (1,051) and touchdowns (eight).

THE NATIONAL SOCCER Coaches Association of America named Rutgers senior center back Jenifer Anzivino a second team All-American.

“Jenifer is perhaps the most talented player in our program,” said head coach Glen Crooks in a statement.

“She was the best back I saw in any match this season. She is that good.”

THE ST. PETERSBURG Bowl is now called the Beef O’Brady’s Bowl.

Rutgers and Central Florida square off Dec. 19 on the first day of postseason play. The national restaurant chain inked a two-year deal yesterday, according to Bowl officials.

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To the outsider, the 36-day layoff the Rutgers swimming and diving team takes from competition could SWIMMING & DIVING be seen as a time to take a deep breath. But that is hardly the case, head coach Chuck Warner said.

Although the Scarlet Knights enjoy some time away from the pool, the period offers a prime opportunity for improvement.

“It’s a very important training time and one of the keys to a successful season is what’s going to happen here over the next … six weeks until we start the second semester,” Warner said. “It’s a good time to be a little more relaxed without the pressure of school and be able to train a little bit more intensely but primarily we’re trying to keep on a very even, consistent basis.”

Consistency has been RU’s calling card to date. Seniors Cat Whetstone, Shayna Longacre, Jacquie Ward and Erin Saunders have led the club to a perfect 3-0 mark in dual meets.

The Knights finished second to defending Ivy League-champion Harvard in the Harvard Invitational.

RU’s underclassmen also chipped in. Freshmen Brittney Kuras and Melanie Gaffey have posted multiple victories and the return of sophomore Michaela Nilsson should only add to the team’s depth in relay events.

Nilsson took first in the 100-yard backstroke and swam as part of the

RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Freshman Brittney Kuras, above, posted multiple victories for the Rutgers swimming team in the first leg of the season. The Scarlet Knights take a 36-day break before resuming in January. winning 200-yard freestyle relay team in her season debut Friday against Wagner.

“Even when people are in an off race, they’re still turning in pretty good times,” Longacre said. “It’s good that no pressure’s going on one swimmer.”

Despite its success, the Knights continue to eye February’s Big East Championships — the event

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team got another verbal commitment in the form of Fort Pierce, Fla., native Tim Smith, the 14th of the Class of 2010.

Smith, a 6-foot, 180-pound athlete, verballed for Rutgers over offers from South Florida, Purdue, Iowa, Tennessee and Central Florida.

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athletes.

Senior Prishani Seebadri sees the talent and improved preparation of the team as well.

“We have a couple of very good incoming freshman and we aren’t having trouble with injuries,” Seebadri said. “We have the potential and experience to make this season a great one.”

This season may prove to have far reaching implications for the future of the program. A constant struggle for the gymnastics program has been competing with programs that are fully funded. Recently, the monetar y support for the gymnastics team has improved, but Chollet-Nor ton is thinking of the future.

“In the past, we just didn’t have the scholarship dollars allocated,” she said. “Tim [Pernetti] is beginning to help the sport and it’s starting to get better.”

As the support for the program improves, Chollet-Norton believes that the sky is the limit, beginning with this year.

“This year we were able to sign [athletes] early because we were able to offer a full ride,” Chollet-Norton said. “It’s getting very exciting.”

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reports, Notre Dame has interest in both Connecticut head coach Randy Edsall and Cincinnati head coach Brian Kelly for its head football coach position, vacated by Charlie Weis.

Kelly, back-to-back-to-back Big East Coach of the Year and this year’s Home Depot National Coach of the Year, led the Bearcats to an undefeated regular season.

looking at them [Saturday]. They have a very good team. If we can win that dual meet that will make for an undefeated season, but they’re going to be very difficult to beat.”

Following their final dual meet, the Knights host the Swim World Conference Carnival before the divers take part in the Drexel Diving Invitational.

for Chollet-Norton’s program

basketball team hosts Prairie View A&M tonight at the Louis Brown Athletic Center in the final game before the fateful Sunday matchup with Tennessee at Madison Square Garden.

The Scarlet Knights got away safely 58-56 last season.

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to which they have built toward all fall. Four swimmers have yet to qualify for the event and their chances to do so will be limited.

Only three tune-ups remain before the conference championship, starting with a trip to College Park, Md., Jan. 9 to square off versus ACC opponent Maryland.

“It’s not a long ways off,” Warner said. “I spent a lot of time

THE DAILY TARGUM

Rutgers head coach Chrystal Chollet-Norton, equipped with a healthy roster and new freshmen, is expecting improvement upon last season.

Another impact athlete returning from injury is senior Laura Sevarino, who Chollet-Norton believes is a boost for the team because of her versatile abilities.

“Having Laura back in the lineup will be huge because she is a major all-arounder,” the coach said.

In addition to having athletes returning from injuries, the Scarlet Knights boast a strong freshmen class. Chollet-Norton expects big performances from Jenna Zito, Jayne Jeffreys, Nicole Romano and Emma-Rose Trentacosti.

“They are all New Jersey girls who are outstanding allarounders,” Chollet-Norton said.

With the talent that the team possesses, she believes that they can start to both improve on last season and as a program moving forward.

“We are hoping to get close to making regionals this year and we want to go to nationals as a team,” Chollet-Norton said.

The excitement that CholletNorton feels has spread to her

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Minus Echenique, N’Diaye’s surge gives Knights win Sophomore out for month after eye surgery; senior center dominates paint vs. Hawks

BY KYLE FRANKO ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

After 20 minutes, the script looked all too familiar.

This time, the Rutgers men’s basketball team didn’t have MEN’S BASKETBALL i t s MONMOUTH 52 b i g man RUTGERS 66 t o bail it out. Sophomore for ward Gregor y Echenique missed last night’s game against Monmouth and is expected to miss at least a month after undergoing eye surgery yesterday for what was called a preexisting condition.

But the Scarlet Knights did have Hamady N’Diaye in his stead. The senior center stepped into the star ting lineup for the first time this year and had his best game of the young season, scoring a season-high 22 points to help rally RU to a 66-52 victor y at the Louis Brown Athletic Center.

“I promised [Echenique] that I was going to step up,” N’Diaye said. “We have this relationship … I felt bad that he has to sit out and his injur y is hurting me. I had to step up and I had to get back on track.”

N’Diaye combined with sophomore guard Mike Rosario to spark a 27-9 run over the opening 11:09 of the second half. Rosario scored 13

of his season-high 23 points during the stretch.

The sophomore guard’s final basket, a three-pointer with 8:58 to play, gave the Knights a 15-point lead; when N’Diaye followed with a dunk, RU had its largest lead at 58-40.

“I think we showed a lot of passion in the second half,” Rosario said. “We came out with the attitude that we have to be assassins and I just kept telling ever yone that we need to come out with that type of attitude ever y game. I was telling our guys that these guys really think they’re coming in here to beat us in our house and we need to pick it up.”

After a dismal first half where Rutgers (6-2) allowed Monmouth (2-7) to build a 3331 halftime advantage on 50 percent shooting, the Knights ratcheted up the defense.

They forced nine secondhalf turnovers and held the Hawks to 25 percent shooting after intermission.

N’Diaye was the main cog in the effort. The Senegalese seven-footer picked up two fouls in the game’s opening two minutes — one a technical — was spectacular from that point on. He finished with 10 rebounds and eight blocks to go along with his 22 points.

His three blocks inside the final minute brought the

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Sophomore Gregory Echenique will miss at least a month after undergoing eye surgery yesterday. Senior Hamady N’Diaye, above, got the start in his stead and posted 22 points, 10 rebounds and eight blocks.

High school star shines at next level Healthy squad

BY ALEX JANKOWSKI

looks forward to strong start

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A two-time high school state champion, freshman Vincent Dellefave got scholarship offers from premier wrestling programs all over the east coast, WRESTLING including powerhouse Penn State.

But for the Toms River, N.J., native, the decision to stay in the Garden State and compete for the Rutgers wrestling team was as easy as reaching a state final in high school, a feat he accomplished three times.

“I chose Rutgers in the end because I feel they have the best coaching staff in the country,” Dellefave said. “Also, I wanted to be close to home so people could come watch me wrestle.”

He responded with a 3-1 record in dual meets thus far and leads a 125-pound weight class that is the Scarlet Knights’ strongest in terms of depth.

Head coach Scott Goodale said he is not surprised by the impact Dellefave has had on the Knights’ starting roster as they head toward the midway point of their season.

“He won the state title twice and finished second and third the other years, so having him on our roster is huge,” Goodale said. “He’s the type of kid we recruited because we felt that he could win right away and he has proven that.”

While coaching at Jackson High School, Goodale had the opportunity to see Dellefave wrestle in his first two years of high school, but the coach said he knew that a successful wrestler was in the making far before that.

“We are actually family friends and he grew up in Toms River, which is a rival of Jackson where I coached,” Goodale said.

“I’ve been watching him wrestle since he was about 7. But it still wasn’t easy to

BY JOSH GLATT STAFF WRITER

Once he ar rived on the Banks, Dellefave joined a weight class that already included three wrestlers, including redshir t freshman Joseph Langel.

Coming of f a season plagued by injuries, head gymnastics coach Chr ystal Chollet-Nor ton is encouraged by her team’s conditioning GYMNASTICS and health heading into the season.

“We are looking forward to a much better season than last year,” Chollet-Norton said.

“We didn’t start like we did last year; we had so many injuries.”

She credits her team’s health to a new approach to conditioning this year. While always cognizant of her team’s wellbeing, Chollet-Norton recognized that a change in the conditioning program would be beneficial.

“In the past, we might have pushed them a little too far,” she said. “We are being a little smarter this year about the girls taking care of their bodies.”

One athlete returning from injury that should make an impact is junior Leigh Heinbaugh. After an injury-plagued sophomore year and a minor setback in preparation for the season, Heinbaugh worked herself back into shape.

“Leigh is back up and has all her beam skills back,” Chollet-Norton said. “She’s going to be a huge person for us on beam.”

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RAMON DOMPOR/ ASSOCIATE PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

A two-time state champion in high school, Rutgers freshman wrestler Vincent Dellefave, top, leads a 125-pound weight class this season with a 3-1 record in dual meets. bring him over because he was getting recruited by a lot of major Division I programs. He is going to help our recruiting down the road because kids will want to come to Rutgers now that we have arguably one of the best lightweights ever to wrestle in New Jersey.”