The Daily Targum 2009-11-10

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The Rutgers men’s soccer team’s season ended in disappointment with a loss at St. John’s in the Big East quarterfinals. The Scarlet Knights were plagued by inconsistency finishing the season one game under .500.

COMMUNITY HONORS 15-YEAR-OLD BOY KILLED ON LOCAL HIGHWAY

BY GREG FLYNN CORRESPONDENT

Director of Transportation Services Jack Molenaar will tackle complaints, listen to suggestions and discuss public transportation at the Douglass Governing Council’s meeting Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Trayes Hall in the Douglass Student Center.

The DGC planned the event so council members, Molenaar and students could engage in a dialogue, External Vice President Kate Barbour said.

“This event was organized so that our body can pose questions to Mr. Molenaar that pertain to our constituents,” said Barbour, a Douglass College senior. “His speaking appearance is open to the public and will hopefully be attended by people who wish to share their joys and concerns about the transportation system at Rutgers.”

Molenaar said he is attending the council’s meeting to talk about the Depar tment of Transpor tation Ser vices and the DGC’s concerns.

“I do this all the time with any student group that invites me,” Molenaar said, recalling previous forums.

The University bus system exists in order to get students to class, Molenaar said. The

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Family members and friends set up flowers and pictures on the ground at last night’s memorial of George Coleman Jr., who was killed Oct. 19 while crossing Rt. 18.

Family members, friends, supporters and community leaders circled the entrance of Boyd Park with lit candles last night to remember the life of 15-year-old George Coleman Jr., who was struck and killed by a car on Oct. 19 while crossing Rt. 18.

Coleman’s aunt, Lillian Ashie, said her nephew was killed while crossing the intersection of Route 18 North and Commercial Avenue with three of his friends, who were on their way to a youth group program.

She said they walked from Paulus Boulevard to the intersection where they waited at the traffic light for it to turn red. She said according to the boys, they crossed one by one. The first boy crossed without any problem, the second was nearly hit by a car and her nephew was struck by a car and sent flying through the air.

Ashie said according to the police report, Coleman was killed at 6:30 p.m., but his parents did not find out about the status of their son until 11 p.m. that night.

She said police officers never informed the Colemans of their son’s whereabouts or his condition.

“It’s unfair to expect a parent to feel comfortable about sending their child to cross an intersection like this for whatever reason,” said attorney Patricia Bombelyn. “It’s an unacceptable risk to impose upon the families that populate this area and have to use this intersection as pedestrians.”

Attendees held signs reading, “We demand equal rights and justice for George,” “Respect our families,” “Everyone deserves equal treatment” and “Different colors doesn’t mean different treatment.”

Speakers at the vigil included Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey President Martin Perez, President of the NAACP Edison-Metuchen branch Reggie Johnson, President of the NAACP New Brunswick branch Bruce Morgan and LLANJ Civil Rights Committee Chair Rich Rivera.

Reverend John Thompson-Quartey of St. Mary’s Church in Point Pleasant, the Coleman family’s minister, led a prayer and hymns. The crowd sang hymns including “Amazing Grace” and “Jesus Loves Me.” — Heather Brookhart

Christie victory reflects voters’ push for change

BY MARY DIDUCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

ANDREW HOWARD/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Media sources say the democratic gubernatorial losses in New Jersey and Virginia could reflect the drop in popularity of President Barack Obama, shown above at a July rally with Gov. Jon S. Corzine. But experts and voters say it was the economy that led citizens to vote for Republican candidates.

As New Jersey and Virginia voters elected Republican Governors-elect Chris Christie and Bob McDonnell last week, several media sources have said the elections could be a public referendum on President Barack Obama’s popularity.

With the United States entrenched in two wars, the worst economic recession since the Great Depression and a health care overhaul, many voters feel the Obama administration is not upholding its campaign promises, and this may have been reflected in the election of Republican governors in two states Obama had won in 2008.

According to Rasmussen Reports, an independent polling

firm, Obama’s approval index fell this month below 50 percent for the first time since July.

But many New Jersey voters did not think the election of Christie was a sign of waning Obama support.

The New Jersey election was about incumbent Gov. Jon S. Corzine and the state’s poor economy, not Obama, said Eagleton Institute of Politics Associate Director John Weingart.

“I believe there were few — if any — voters who voted for Christie because they didn’t like President Obama,” Weingart said.

“They voted for Christie because they didn’t like the Corzine administration, and they hoped that a change would be an improvement.”

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ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

With a one-vote difference, the University Chapter of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund won the rights to the Rutgers University Student Assembly’s semi-annual Meal Sign-

Away program at last Thursday’s meeting in the Student Activities Center.

RUSA members listened to members of finalist organizations including the International Medical Relief Fund and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, before making a final decision.

Once the winning organization

INDEX UNIVERSITY The women’s rugby club sports team has one more win to settle before they duke it out for the national title.

OPINIONS President Barack Obama gives stimulus funds to Native Americans, a potential political ploy for his 2012 re-election efforts.

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meets with Executive Director of Dining Services Charles Sams, they can set up a table at dining halls and ask students to sign away no more than two meals for the their cause, Assembly Treasurer Yousef Saleh said.

“It was a very tough choice, especially since both groups have such

admirable missions,” said Assembly Chair Werner Born, a School of Engineering senior. “The main difference students saw in the groups [were] the types of medical relief they administer. Both goals are equal-

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Division champs aim for national title

BY MIKE DAVIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For the Rutgers women’s rugby club team, the goal has always been simple: capture the Metropolitan New York Rugby Football Union title and go to the USA Rugby national competition.

With their 29-15 victor y against the University of Vermont, the team will compete in the Northeast Rugby Union finals next weekend at Norwich University in Vermont. A win there will secure a place in the national competition, giving a team ripe with graduating seniors something to remember, fullback Kristen Derewecki said.

“We knew we really had to do something special this season,” Derewecki said.

She understands the nature of the rest of the club’s season.

“Any game from here on out could end your season,” said Derewecki, a School of Engineering senior. “We have to play our own game to the best of our ability, and if our best is better than theirs, we should win.”

The women’s rugby team bounced back from a 2-3 record in 2008 to a campaign that left them Met-N.Y. Division II champions.

They remained a perfect 5-0 in the regular season and swept the Met-N.Y. playoffs, allowing only 12 points throughout all seven regular and postseason games.

Head Coach Michael Ross said he is elated with the way his team has played as the pressure continued to mount. He saw the team rise to the occasion, winning big and small games against strong and weak opponents.

Now a top seed in regional competition, Ross said the team faces the challenge of lowerranked teams’ intent on ending the club’s success.

“If we believe in ourselves and the execution of our defense, everything should turn out in our favor,” Assistant Coach A.G. Lanzano said.

Saturday’s game against the University of Vermont presented such a challenge. A seventh seed in the Northeast Rugby Union quarterfinals, the University team had never played them.

“It’s kind of like a clean slate,” inside center Elizabeth Kelly said. “We don’t go in assuming anything.”

There is a “silent intimidation factor” that comes with facing an unfamiliar opponent, said Kelly, a Rutgers College senior.

She met that “silent intimidation” by scoring three tries for 15 points in the 29-15 win against Vermont.

The strategy against Vermont was the same the coaches employed all season: self-confidence and togetherness. It was these values that propelled the team to dominate most of their games and inspired them to win the close battles like a 17-12 comeback win against New Paltz — a game Kelly said was won by heart alone.

“We really focus on picking each other up on the field,” she said.

“None of us are here for the glory.

It’s all about the team as a whole.”

For wards Coach Matthew Zeigler said the team had enough skill to put together a great season, but it was the bonding that crafted their success against MetN.Y. opponents and Saturday against Vermont.

Prop Megan Cowell, a School of Arts and Sciences junior, and flanker Heather Dauber have been known to bring the team together, calming members down in tough times or organizing preparatory get-togethers before a big game.

“Whenever there’s been a conflict, they’ve been able to step up,” Zeigler said.

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The women’s rugby club team tackles to the top of the Met-N.Y. Division II championship. Next weekend, it will play for a secure spot in nationals.

Team bonding is essential for players of ever y position, Dauber said.

“We always work off of each other’s mistakes and drive off of each other’s hearts,” said Dauber, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

The same held true on Saturday. Though the University team jumped out to an early 14-0 lead, the score at halftime was 1410 after surrendering 10 unanswered points.

The team responded by starting the second half with 10 unanswered points of their own.

“It doesn’t matter if we’re up or down; we have the capability to win,” Zeigler said.

The team isn’t worried about the Northeast finals and neither are the coaches.

“The confidence is there. The awareness of what’s at stake is there,” Ross said. “As a coach, you couldn’t ask for anything more.”

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CONCERNS: Molenaar sees drop in student complaints continued from front sprawling network of routes is the largest bus system for a University in the nation and the secondlargest transit system in the state.

Barbour said students throughout the University community could come out to discuss their concerns.

“Students should come to this event if they’ve expressed grievances that have never been addressed,” Barbour said. “This would be the proper channel of communication for a suggestion or a complaint.”

In the results of the Rutgers University Student Assembly’s “What’s on Your Mind Month” survey, 30 percent of responding students rated campus transportation as an issue of high importance.

Molenaar said the bus system is a consistent source of frustration for students because they sometimes feel they have no control.

“When anyone uses transit, the patience level drops because the user has lost control — they feel — of their time,” Molenaar said. “People feel the same way at a red light when they are in their car.”

Molenaar said the number of complaints the department receives has dipped in recent years.

“To be honest, the number of complaints has dropped by over 70 percent over the last four years,” he said.

But Molenaar said is not paid by the number of complaints he receives.

“No, and I assume that was not a serious question,” Molenaar said.

The department cannot increase the number of buses on a specific route every time there is a request, he said.

“We do add buses when we can, but I also have to be fiscally prudent with the fees I receive from ever y single student on their semester bills. Also, 49 percent of the bus budget is from state funds,” Molenaar said.

“Based on that, we should only be providing what is reasonable and necessary to make sure students can meet their academic goals.”

Barbour said it is important for students to talk with administrators and other University officials in order to have their voices heard.

“If there are other ways to make changes around campus besides communicating with members of the administration, I haven’t heard of them yet,” Barbour said. “That’s why inviting administrative speakers to our meetings is so critical; we want to voice the concerns our constituents present to us and what we ourselves notice that could be better.”

Molenaar said students who cannot attend the forum could learn about the bus system by visiting http://rudots.rutgers.edu.

Students can e-mail concerns or suggestions to info@publicsafety.rutgers.edu.

Postings about bus or parking changes can be found at http://twitter.com/RUDOTS.

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U. HEALTH SERVICES TO ADMINISTER H1N1 NASAL SPRAY VACCINE University health officials will offer the nasal spray vaccine to protect against swine flu Wednesday, from noon to 6 p.m. in the International Lounge at the Busch Campus Center.

The vaccine will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to people between the ages of 2 and 49 who are not pregnant and do not have a serious medical condition such as asthma, diabetes or a weakened immune system.

“Rutgers has not received [the] injectable vaccine and has no information on when it will be available, so we urge you to consider the nasal spray if you are eligible for it,” said Executive Director of Rutgers-New Brunswick Health Services Melodee Lasky in a notice to the University community.

Those with a history of severe, life-threatening allergic reactions to eggs should not receive H1N1 vaccine injection or spray, Lasky said. Instead they should contact their physician to discuss other options for preventing the flu.

The vaccine is offered on a voluntary basis and is free of charge.

University officials ask community members to bring their University ID card to the clinic.

More information about the H1N1 vaccine is available at http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination.

Lasky said members of the community who have any questions or concerns may wish to consult their private physician, who can also administer the vaccine.

“Influenza activity is widespread in New Jersey,” Lasky said.

“According to the Centers for Disease Control, vaccination is the single best way to protect against influenza illness. You can find more about H1N1 and Rutgers-specific information at http://h1n1.rutgers.edu.”

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Hasan, a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

The organization fulfills these to children in Middle East goals by finding volunteer doctors to go to the locations abroad continued from front that need medical support and bringing children abroad to ly important for our University where they can get treatment, to support.” she said.

He said he thinks what caught “The [fund] also brings chilthe attention of students was that dren abroad from the Middle East the Palestine Children’s Relief to Europe or America for specialFund pursues larger medical surized care,” Hasan said. “When geries that heal disabilities, they bring children abroad, they which obstruct children from make all the appointments, find enjoying their youths. doctors [and] find places to stay.

The University chapter’s The hospital and the doctor volunPublic Relations Chair Lauren teer their time for these children.”

Miller found the assembly recepThe fund runs on a small tive to the organization. budget with less than $2 million “They were interested in annually; this year its budget is what we’re about, where the estimated to be $1 million, she funds were going to go and how said. The actual value of services efficiently we were going to be is about $69 biltabling,” said lion.

Miller, a School “We’re a new “More than 800 of Arts and children were Sciences junior. organization ... we brought abroad “We’re a new for care since its organization, and will find as many inception, and in we’re excited donations as we 2008 more than about our cause, 1,000 children last and we will find possibly can. ” year had surgery as many donaLAUREN MILLER or treatment with tions as we possiPublic Relations Chair more than 3,000 bly can.”

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund going through Their group expert medical has 30 members screening and who regularly evaluation,” Hasan said. come to meetings, but they have She said she was excited for a larger base who table regularly the opportunity to raise funds at their bake sales, she said. The through meal sign-aways. group also has a listserv of more “[Winning the meal signthan 100 members. aways] is an amazing opportunity The fund’s University chapand we’re planning to make the ter formed this fall and is the most out of it. We don’t have too first student-run local organizamany members yet — [only tion for the non-political, nonabout] 20 members — but we’re par tisan international fund, asking other organizations to which began in 1991, University help us out,” Hasan said.

Chapter President Ghadeer They asked members from Hasan said. organizations, like University vol“The main objective of the unteer organization Circle K, to Palestinian Children’s Relief help out their cause, she said.

Fund is to give relief to all the “We’re going to raise money, children in the Middle East. but what’s more important is that Initially, it started with we raise awareness of the organiPalestinian youth but expanded zation for their work abroad,” to children in Iraq and all chilHasan said. dren in [the] Middle East,” said

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How would you feel if the FBI knew exactly what librar y books you had taken out? Many librarians have been labeled as radical militants because they have been favoring the First Amendment and not encouraging this section of the Patriot Act. What side of the debate do you agree with: supporting the right to free speech or helping Americans fight terrorism? Jenna Freedman and Valerie Bell will address this issue from 7 to 9 p.m. at the School of Communication and Information building, Room 212 during “Activist Librarianship and the Ethics of Librar y Neutrality.”

The Douglass Governing Council meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Trayes Hall A of the Douglass Campus Center.

The Busch Campus Council meets at 7 p.m. in the Busch Campus Center, Room 120 ABC. They hold meetings every other week.

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Nancy Bentley of the University of Pennsylvania will be coming to the University to discuss her new work on “Kinlessness and African-American Literature.” The seminar will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the Center for Cultural Analysis on the College Avenue campus. After the seminar, an informal reception will be held. Because space is limited, students and faculty must sign up in advance for the Bentley seminar. Please e-mail or phone Curtis Dunn at curtis.dunn@rutgers.edu or (732) 932-8426 to reserve a seat.

Senior Copy Editor from Life and Style Magazine John Delery and News Editor Kim Roots will be coming to talk to students about working in magazine publishing from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the SC&I lounge on the College Avenue campus. Free pizza will be served.

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The Newark Lincoln Bicentennial Conveners Committee and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Foundation will present an important civic conversation entitled “The Humane City: Race, Ethnicity and Freedom in Urban America.” The town hall meeting, moderated by Newark’s own James O. Horton, will bring together a respected panel of educators, historians and journalists to explore what it takes to build a compassionate city where the challenges of diversity and social justice are confronted daily on the streets, in the schools and along the halls of power. Taking place from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Newark Museum, panelists will discuss what it takes to mobilize a city’s great physical, financial and intellectual resources for the good of its people.

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“Emerging Directions in African and African-American Diaspora Studies” will take place from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. in the Assembly Room of Winants Hall on the College Avenue campus. In the 40 years since the birth of Black and Africana Studies, the now expansive interdisciplinary field has transformed the academy. Recognizing this year as a major milestone in African and African-American scholarship, scholars across disciplines from the University and beyond come together to offer insights on today’s challenges and possibilities while also considering the road ahead. To attend the conference, please e-mail the Center for Race and Ethnicity at raceethnicity@sas.rutgers.edu.

The Unplugged Rutgers Board Game Club will be having its weekly meeting at 7 p.m. at the Busch Campus Center, Room 174. Come by to meet new people, chow down on food and try some board games that you have never seen!

They play everything from chess to “Last Night on Earth,” a zombie-survival horror game.

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The Rutgers rugby football club, which recently entered the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union Premier League, faces off at 1 p.m. against Maryland at the Scarlet Knight Sport Club Field. The field is located on the corner of Bartholomew and Brett Roads on Busch campus.

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CHANGE: Fewer voters under 30 hit polls in NJ last week continued from front Meir Goldberg, a rabbi with the Rutgers Jewish Xperience on campus, said he voted for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., in 2008, and last week, he voted for Christie.

“Christie seemed to be more fiscally responsible,” said Goldberg, who typically votes Republican but does not affiliate with the party.

Despite not voting for Obama last year, Goldberg said he thinks Obama’s association with Corzine did not hurt him. The loss was all his own.

“The perception was that people didn’t like what was going on with the economy — they wanted change, the same way they voted in Obama for change,” said Goldberg, who also said it is too early to determine the efficacy of the new president.

The rallies held throughout the state for Corzine with prominent, national Democratic leaders such as Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and former President Bill Clinton did help Corzine, Weingart said.

“I think it probably did boost Corzine somewhat,” he said. “My guess is he would’ve lost by more without the association of those more popular Democrats.”

Elizabeth Matto, director of Eagleton’s Youth Political Participation Program, said the rallies most likely did not have a negative effect.

“These isolated events at which you have high-profile Democrats reaching out to students are important and make an impact, but these are isolated events,” Matto said. “This is a campaign that went on for a long time.”

Corzine had the financial ability to come out on top but did not connect with voters, Weingart said.

He did not participate in the local government or campaign door-todoor, hurting him in the election.

The incumbent also did not have control over the economy, he said.

When Corzine became a senator in 2000 and governor in 2005, his past work at Goldman Sachs gave voters confidence he could understand and address the state’s fiscal situation, Weingart said. This year, it was not considered an asset.

“It’s very hard to run as an incumbent in bad economic times,” he said.

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Several polls before the election and exit polls after show Obama as popular as when he was elected last year, he said.

According to Rasmussen Reports, 37.8 percent of all Americans, not just likely voters, identified in October as Democrats. About 32 percent affiliate with the Republican Party.

If the election was held on a presidential year — when voter turnout is greatest — Corzine may have won, Weingart said.

New Jersey has many Democratic voters, and a presidential election year would have brought out more voters in Corzine’s favor.

Matto said the 2008 election also saw a surge of young voter interest.

This year, she said there was a lot of interest again, but not as much as last year.

“It didn’t seem as energized as last year … [but] I was still really pleased with how interested students were,” Matto said.

She said it was clear that younger voters are leaning toward the Democratic Party, but they did not come to the polls like last year.

T H E DA I LY TA R G U M Last election, 658,000 Americans under age 30 voted in New Jersey, according to Rasmussen Reports exit polls. In November 2009, 212,000 Americans under 30 voted.

Young, New Jersey voters cast 441,000 votes for Obama in 2008, but only 121,000 for Corzine, according to the exit polls.

School of Engineering senior Fahad Quraishi said he voted for Obama in 2008 but did not vote at all last week.

“I just don’t think [the candidates] stood for what I believed. I just felt like it was a waste,” he said.

Obama’s presidency did not have an effect on his decision not to vote, he said.

In the past, candidates also heavily reached out to the youth vote, but not as much in this race, Matto said. While there were many rallies with high-profile politicians, the messages did not necessarily cater to them.

Younger voters — like older ones — care about the economy and jobs, but the candidates did not address how it would affect them, Matto said.

“I’m not so sure the candidates for governor spoke about [issues] in terms that were meaningful for

young people, when they certainly could have,” she said.

Graduating seniors were concerned about finding their first jobs, searching for houses and paying off loans, Matto said.

“The biggest thing that people talked about in New Jersey were property taxes or just taxes in general, which honestly, students don’t really know or don’t care much about,” said President of the Roosevelt Institute Lonnie Affrime.

Affrime — who voted for both Corzine and Obama — said he sees no connection between the Virginia and New Jersey elections and Obama’s presidency.

He said it is mostly the media who created this story.

“It was people reacting to the governor and what’s happening in our state. It has nothing to do with how people feel about Obama [and] it has nothing to do with how people feel about the Democrats,” said Affrime, a School of Arts and Sciences senior.

He said the Virginia result does not reveal a connection to Obama either.

“You can’t turn a historically red state into a blue state because [Democrats] won one election,” Affrime said.

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Author’s ‘obsession’ leads to best-seller

BY MEGAN TORRE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For years, author Benjamin Moser was obsessed with figuring out and understanding the works of renowned Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, commonly described as “that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf.”

Moser pursued his dream of going to Brazil and meeting Lispector, which eventually led him to write a biography on her popular novels and short stories, relating them to her personal life.

He spoke about his book, “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector” on Thursday evening in Art History Hall on Douglass campus.

“Clarice Lispector is one of the major figures of Latin American literature due to her uniquely poetic writing style and her brilliant manner of illuminating the inner workings of our hearts and minds,” said part-time University lecturer Steven Gonzagowski.

Although Lispector is a relatively well-known and respected Brazilian author, many people in the United States are not familiar with her works, Moser said.

He wrote the book to not only raise awareness about Lispector’s writing, but also because he became very interested in her writing style and personality after their meeting.

“I wrote this book about her, because many people in this country haven’t heard of her,” Moser said. “You have to be obsessed with your subject in order to write about it.”

Lispector’s work was very personal and touching because she related it to her own traumatic experiences, Moser said.

“She was lovely, but a little weird, but there’s also this kind of desperation in her and this kind of pain and drama,” he said.

The death of her mother was one of the violent experiences that set the tone for some of her novels and short stories, Moser said.

Though Brazilian and Portuguese media said her mother died from Parkinson’s disease, she was actually gang-raped, he said. The real reason for her death was usually pushed under the rug.

Lispector was born in Ukraine to a Jewish family and grew up during World War II, Moser said.

When she was 2 years old, her family fled to Brazil to avoid the Nazi regime. She passed away in 1977.

University Professor Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui said Lispector has an interesting array of characters in her works.

“What’s important is how she generated characters out of sheer abjection — nothing out of dirt — and the characters are so completely from the margin and something masterful,” Sifuentes-Jauregui said.

Gonzagowski said he enjoyed hearing about Moser’s book and how Lispector’s experiences impacted her writing.

“The talk was interesting because it sounds like Moser did a thorough job of researching Clarice Lispector’s turbulent life and relating how her literary work

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he question of diversity has been raised many times throughout American history. The topics have ranged from desegregation to fair opportunities in the educational spheres. While the University has had a tendency of relying on diversity to uphold a certain reputation, one group has been a minority among minorities, and that is the Native American.

In recent news, the ever-popular President Barack Obama has addressed the issue of Native American underrepresentation. This focus on American Indians was made a priority on Thursday at the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the Department of the Interior in Washington. According to USA Today, this meeting, a first since 1994, aimed to redeem broken promises made to certain tribes.

Along with these broken promises, the meeting attempted to correct the agenda of a very busy man. The president’s compassionate talks of Native American struggle seemed to foolishly make a comparison between his childhood and the lives of people who for years have been maliciously targeted by the new settlers.

While this meeting of seemingly immediate importance might have been for the morality of the matter, there are underlying motives for action. Truly, the Native American matter had to be addressed at some point, considering that many tribes do not have running water or have insufficient educational facilities, but the time was chosen more for its political importance rather than social.

This initiative serves to raise awareness of issues stretching back to the founding of this nation. The reality of things, however, might be much deeper than apportioning $1 billion for Native American tribes.

If one were to look away from the limelight in which Obama stands, he would find that a majority of our president’s actions are carried out in a very public way. In this continuous race for re-election, Obama has traveled more than any other president in American history, visited many countries, spoken with many world leaders and has recently taken it upon his image to face another potentially beneficial situation.

According to the chief executive, his administration has already aided Native Americans through the $787 billion stimulus, of which the funds for Indians were allocated accordingly: $100 million for job creation within tribal communities, $500 million for the Indian Health Service and nearly $500 million for various education, college and school construction programs.

The question that arises from this situation is, why now? In this economically unstable time, how does this benefit the economic system? Those $1.1 billion dollars given to closed communities and nonconsumer tribes do not circulate in the system as they are meant to, thus are not an integral part of the financial reconstruction of the nation. The sad truth is that this money given to the Native Americans serves no purpose other than a medium for the president’s fluctuating rating. This financial help could have come in several months or several years ago, but it has come now as it serves its purpose in presenting Obama in a certain humanitarian way. An aid of these proportions may have been needed, but it was certainly another vehicle for Obama’s re-election.

The president said at this meeting, “I know what it means to feel ignored and forgotten, and what it means to struggle.” He also referred to himself as an “outsider” as he attempted to appeal to these truly overlooked peoples. Obama’s attempt at comparison between himself and an impoverished minority shows the true colors of this meeting. While this grouping of our president and Native Americans make light of Obama’s childhood struggle, it seems to be a bit farfetched. A compassionate talk of struggle and historical underrepresentation brought a certain feeling of amiability between the president and tribe leaders. This underlying sense of humanitarian success puts another merit on Obama’s resume.

The ultimate result of this tribal meeting was an executive order by the president. He signed an order requiring all cabinet members to provide plans for consulting Native American tribes. In addition, he pledged to consider their needs in instances of moving forward on education and health care programs. About a decade ago, former President Bill Clinton issued a similar order, but Indian leaders believe that it has done very little. Their optimism about Obama, however, stays. Perhaps it is their unbreakable will to believe in any executive of the United States who is willing to make any plans of aiding Indian tribes. Why would Obama’s word mean more than the one of Clinton? Do racial segregation and difficulties during his childhood make Obama a trustworthy vessel of much-needed reform when it comes to Native Americans?

Undoubtedly, Obama’s election was of epic proportions and his acts seem to aid the bourgeois population of the United States. The face of diversity and acceptance has done little, however, when it comes to social reform and international affairs. His steps toward benefiting another important group of American history may be methods for future political campaigns. It is doubtful that these talks of education and health improvement of these closed societies will do anything but bring certain people to certain places. Perhaps a Nobel Prize will do just that.

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spend their time writing an arning: This artiextra 900-word essay a week” cle is mostly false and the Targum accepts but would appear “those who are available.” to be mostly true.

This is false. Individuals who Two weeks ago, an associhave any sense of pride or ate news editor for The Daily self-respect do not want themTargum gave a thorough selves associated with The trashing of Targum columBRIAN CANARES Daily Targum. The newspanists. His Oct. 26 column, per finds columnists who “Rules for reading Targum have lower standards than itself, because qualified columns,” presented 12 rules for readers to follow writers actually know what’s best for their future. when reading an article. However, like most Thus, you get shameless students who have no Targum stories, his piece was overly vague and gencareer aspirations in life (probably a future teacher) eral. While many of his points were very accurate, and do not have the intellectual capacity to take on he did not give much analysis on why columnists complex issues. Sometimes it seems that our best behave the way they do. In addition, the author material comes from talking about ourselves. failed to address the real issue at hand: No one ever 2. Columnists are very arrogant, pompous, and — reads the daily columns. So, I thought I should give as one grad student called me — self-aggrandizing. real “insider” information about myself and other This is one correct point the author made in his article. columnists to help remedy this situation.

We look for you to call us names and write about it in I initially launched this column with the sole intenMedium personals. Feedback, even if it’s negative, only tion of reaching Tom Savage status. Sadly, this has re-affirms our own self worth (tactics taken from not happened, as quite the opposite has occurred.

Westboro Baptist Church). In fact, the “columnist culContrary to popular belief, writing for The Daily ture” even has a hierarchy of rankTargum is not sexy — even with a ing feedback. The more time the handsome picture accompanying “I believe the decline reader expends on crafting a each article. It actually decreases response, the more fulfilled we feel your status and popularity. The in readership is due to as columnists. To put this in peronly people who read the editorial the lack of connection spective, here is the hierarchy in section are other columnists, ascending order of importance: bored alumni from the Midwest between the author Student response on The and political/religious factions.

Daily Targum Web site: They For everyone else, this page is and the reader.” may or may not have actually usually folded into a square for the read the article, but even a few purposes of in-class Sudoku and keystrokes adds a false sense of credibility. Not bad. crossword puzzles. So, why doesn’t anyone read the The e-mail response: Length of response, identicolumns on the opinions page? ty of author (90-year-old alumnus is usually a bad I believe the decline in readership is due to the sign) and logic of argument either means the lack of connection between the author and the readrespondent has absolutely no life or the columnist er. Articles are seen as wholly irrelevant, boring or has somehow struck a cord. Either way, each e-mail long-winded (much like this one). This creates an is a pang of pride in the stomach of a narcissistic attitude in which no one bothers to read the opinwriter hungry for responses. ions section in the first place. This article seeks to The letter response in the newspaper: This is the bridge this disconnect with the audience. By giving ultimate accomplishment for the columnist. a little insight about “columnist culture,” I hope to Pejorative remarks about the columnist’s family, variincrease readership by allowing the student body to ous ad hominem attacks and blatantly false stateempathize with Targum columnists. Parsing ments cannot detract from the fact that someone through the opinions section can often be a difficult spent several minutes of their life to combat an article task, especially when there are crossword puzzles that probably had little merit to begin with. Job well urging you to keep it moving. To counter this probdone. The columnist can go back into hibernation for lem, I have outlined below a few things you should two weeks and plot their next offensive assault. know about us: These are just general facts about columnists.

1. Most columnists are either picked up off the Now I will get into specifics: street or write for the Johnsonville Press (some3. Some columns will be dedicated to promoting times both). This is why every article is plagued President Barack Obama and his public health care with grammatical errors and incoherent logic. option. This is nothing but a ploy by the vast right-wing Sometimes, we will resort to numbers and bullet conspiracy. The author will incessantly write about the points, because we cannot express our ideas in a persuasive five-paragraph essay. The author would sugSEE CANARES ON PAGE 9 gest that “the smartest students are too busy to

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What our alma mater has taught us Letter MATT GUNTHER

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n this day and age, appreciation of history and tradition is a quality that has become non-existent in most students. It seems to me that only a handful of students who are not members of the Glee Club know our prestigious University’s alma mater.

Many students do not even stand or remove their hats while the alma mater is being performed.

The alma mater is not just some silly song that people sing simply because they can. The melody is simple, and the lyrics, though not high art, were chosen to embody the University. I believe that every single student should know and learn the lyrics to truly appreciate its impor tance to the University and its history.

CANARES continued from page 8 benefits of “O-care,” until people are completely resentful of the public option. Students get so tired of hearing the same bad arguments that they reject the issue out of spite. Do not let these shameless Fox News tactics of reverse psychology stop you from reading the opinions section.

4. Any updates on student government, on the other hand, are attempts by the left-wing conspiracy to take over the media outlet.

They too cannot be trusted. Don’t

When you look around, it is no wonder why the students do not know the alma mater. During my freshmen orientation I remember learning the University’s chant — “RU rah rah, RU rah rah!” After learning this, it made the most sense to me that we would learn the alma mater. Instead, we practiced the chant until everybody had it memorized and headed to convocation. In this story lies the biggest problem. It is not necessarily the fault of the students that alma mater interest is dying out; it is a matter of not placing enough emphasis on its importance when new students first arrive.

This issue can be found on a large scale at various University sporting events as well. I will never forget last season’s matchup of Notre Dame and Syracuse. It is not the actual game that I remember, but after the game, after Notre Dame had just suffered a demoralizing defeat to one of the worst

teams in the nation. The fans had every right to leave the stadium in disgust, and the players had every right to run to the locker room and bury their hands in their face.

Instead, every single fan and every single player stayed on that field, and every single fan and every single player sang the Notre Dame alma mater. It was a truly emotional moment because it showed me that even in their greatest defeats people who are associated with Notre Dame feel pride toward their school in their tradition.

After a Rutgers football victory, the players come over to the student section and sing the alma mater. After a loss, 90 percent of the fans leave the stadium and the players book it to the locker room; this shows me that people are not necessarily celebrating the pride they feel toward the University and its tradition, but instead are just riding on the emo-

tional high of a victory. This alma mater should be a separate tradition of University pride and not just a means of capping a win.

Of course, the football team at least sings the alma mater after they win. After a victory, the men’s basketball team heads into the locker room without as much as a single tribute to the University that they play for, and because of this indifference toward the alma mater the pep band does not even play it at all. After every single basketball game I wait for the alma mater, and it always turns out to be a waste of time. I am not sure what the different traditions of the various athletic programs are as far as the alma mater is concerned, but if the two major sports at the University aren’t getting it right, I assume that the smaller programs aren’t either.

The alma mater is important not just because it is an important part

of our history, but because it is something that can unite University students as an entire body. I sometimes believe that pride in our University is not an overly prominent characteristic here as it is at a school like Notre Dame. Most people are so concerned with talking about the “RU Screw” and complaining about the buses that they simply do not stop and reflect upon why they are at Rutgers in the first place. Next time you get a chance, sit down and listen to the alma mater. Read about its history and consider the fact that Howard Fuller penned it 135 years ago. The alma mater is a great and important tradition that cannot die, and if we as students allow the alma mater to fade away, then we may as well just say goodbye to true University pride for good.

be fooled by what appears to be an even-handed approach by students who themselves participate in student government; they are out to justify their hidden motive to legalize marijuana, allow limitless immigrants to cross the border and socialize America. Be wary of articles promoting programs such as “What’s on Your Mind Month,” as it is part of their plan for total control.

5. Authors will use ambiguous language to compensate for bad writing (see rule 1), prove their own self-importance (see rule 2) and promote backwards agendas. These few refuse to accept society’s immoral behavior and are consciously fighting this culture via the-

saurus.com (or shift F7).

Sometimes they will give their views on quite personal topics, like “family,” where they are referring to a white Christian family with 2.5 kids, a white picket fence and a Ford in the driveway. Anything else, of course, is blasphemous. The author will try to create an intellectual argument by using GRE prep words, when in reality, they are merely trying to pull the reader back into the 1800s mindset. It’s important to give these columnists a break, as they will eventually accept their place on the University food chain and fall victim to rule No. 4.

6. Yeah, I do not know why there is a column on the Italy

Study Abroad program either. I considered starting one to reflect on my trip to the Phillipines, but realized no one wanted to hear about my escapades into cock fighting and sex trafficking.

7. Columns that critique society usually stem from bad personal experiences. That is why most of them are written in firsthand accounts. Generalizations are made about technology, University life or men. These social commentaries are for venting purposes only; in which, I cannot stress enough the importance of giving us feedback. We all leave our emails at the bottom for a reason.

We use you — the reader — as a personal psychologist to tell us that society is not as backwards as our experiences would suggest.

Hopefully, this has given you a greater understanding of the “columnist culture.” It’s not always about sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll. So, as you approach your next column, keep these considerations in mind. It will make your Daily Targum experience that much more unfulfilled.

Matt Gunther is a School of Arts and Sciences junior.

Brian Canares is a Rutgers College senior majoring in history and political science. He is also a future teacher. He welcomes feedback at bcanares@eden.rutgers.edu.

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Senior defensive end George Johnson is just seven tackles and three tackles-for-loss away from career highs in each category.

TAPE: Healthy Johnson making impact in senior season continued from back “I try to laugh at it and not take too much time to think about it because I know I got hurt. I just wish I was able to celebrate afterward,” Johnson said.

While Johnson is able to laugh at the play now, he also takes note of his health and the impact it has on his performance.

Health and the ability to use his full arsenal in the pass rush are directly responsible for Johnson’s career-high four-and-ahalf sacks this season.

“I’m a lot healthier than in past seasons,” Johnson said. “It helps me a lot because you don’t have to go out there and worry about nagging injuries that are messing with you or thinking, ‘OK, this is hurt, so I can’t do this move.’ You have a full variety of moves when you’re healthy, so you can really just go out there and play.”

And when Johnson plays, he remains fresh, thanks in large

part to the eight-man rotation employed by the Scarlet Knights’ defensive line.

“We do rotate well, which keeps us fresh and playing harder for the plays that we’re in,” Silvestro said. “I think that’s good for us, but from an offensive perspective I guess it means they can’t focus on one guy.”

The defensive ends in the rotation — Johnson, Silvestro, junior Jonathan Freeny and sophomore Justin Francis — combine for 27.5 tackles for a loss and 15.5 sacks.

Both numbers already exceed last year’s totals for the same group.

The rotation takes on added importance Thursday night, when the defense is tasked with stopping South Florida quarterback B.J. Daniels.

“It’s always a good thing, particularly this week against a quarterback that can run,” Johnson said. “If you have a whole d-line that is fresh, you can always run after the quarterback instead of having guys sitting there that are tired and not as quick or fast.”

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almost as far down as the flyers sometimes, so it’s like having a third one out there.”

Schiano also praised his athleticism.

“I think the fact that Drew has been very silent is a great thing,” he said. “I should say that … he has done a very good job in his coverage on his punts.

He is a very good athlete. It is not like you have some guy running down these punts, because he can snap.”

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Before he ever lined up at long snapper, Andrew DePaola was the key player in one of the greatest plays in the Greg Schiano era.

With the Rutgers football team trailing No. 2 South Florida 17-13 on a Thursday night in Piscataway, DePaola bootlegged to the right on a fake field goal and hit former tight end Kevin Brock for a 15-yard touchdown and a lead that the Scarlet Knights would never relinquish.

“That play was two years ago, and it helped us get a win against them then,” the senior quarterback turned special teams weapon said. “It was a great memory, but that’s all it is right now — a memory. I have a different role as a snapper so I just have to worry about that.”

Now two years later, the Bulls return for a Thursday night clash with RU and DePaola’s role, though different, still carries significant weight in Schiano’s mind.

“He is the guy who touches it first on the punts and the [point after touchdown] field goals,” Schiano said. “It is critical because without that, the rest doesn’t have a chance to work. It is one of those deals where you don’t get talked about till something goes wrong.”

DePaola, from Parkton, Md., came to RU five years ago as a quarterback before establishing his value as a holder. Schiano moved him to wide receiver from quarterback to try and use his hands and speed, but he became too valuable on special teams to ever see the field on offense.

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a-half of rest, senior safety Zaire Kitchen returned to practice at the start of the week, Schiano said.

Kitchen left the Connecticut game early, but it turned out to not be serious.

“Nothing was torn or fractured or anything, but it was scary because I definitely wanted to go in the game because there was another half,” Kitchen said. “I ended up watching from the sidelines wishing I could be on the field with ever ybody else. I took it day-by-day and now I’m back.”

When long snapper Jeremy Branch went down late last season, DePaola stepped in to snap and has been there ever since.

“I feel that I’m more comfortable than I was last year or at any point this year,” DePaola said. “I’m still not as comfortable as I want to be, but I’m starting to figure out the little ins and outs of it.”

Unlike other snappers that may just get the ball to the holder or punter and end the play, he

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brings speed to the position that often puts him in position to make a tackle. Through eight games this season, he has two special teams tackles.

“I feel like that’s an advantage I have over other snappers is my speed, so I try to utilize that as much as I can,” DePaola said. “It obviously disrupts the flow of their return. If they account for our two fast-flyers and then they’re looking to the second-level guys, but I’m

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“It’s scary. We got it contained right now; there’s a couple guys, but tomorrow it could be a whole different stor y,” Schiano said. “That thing goes through, I mean, when guys are as close as these guys are and do everything together. We’re trying to take every precaution, but it’s hard.”

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Senior Andrew DePaola (16) began long-snapping last season when incumbent Jeremy Branch went down with an injury.

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released troubled running back Larry Johnson yesterday, less than a week after Johnson posted a gay slur on his Twitter account. The prolific runner was only 75 yards away from breaking the Chiefs’ all-time rushing record held by former back Priest Holmes. Johnson tallied 2,199 yards from scrimmage in 2006.

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major league pitcher Victor Zambrano has been kidnapped in Zambrano’s native country of Venezuela. The right-hander last appeared in a big league uniform in 2007.

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Rutgers navigated an out-of-conference schedule against teams with a combined 13-31 record. RU beat Big East foe UConn 28-24 last game.

SCREW: Connecticut celebrations show no class continued from back East teams and two non-BCS teams? For as much flak as the conference got about being weak and potentially being replaced by the Mountain West, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh are a combined 17-1 — undefeated in the Big East — and are legitimate contenders for the top Bowl games.

Seeing clearly — The latest weather forecast for Thursday night: 48 degrees and partly cloudy. Will Rutgers be able to pull off a filled stadium against South Florida? There is no reason not to.

THE BAD End of the road — St. John’s handed the Rutgers men’s soccer team a 3-0 loss Saturday night and the Scarlet Knights were subsequently eliminated from both the Big East Tournament and NCAA contention.

After losing Dilly Duka to the U20 National Team in the offseason, expectations were unclear for this season. While it is a positive that they competed and hovered around the .500 mark in the Big East, not qualifying for the NCAA Tournament after coming this close is a downer to close the season.

Non-quality opponents — After Mar yland’s embarrassing defeat to North Carolina State this weekend that dropped the Terrapins to 2-7 on the season,

the combined record of the Scarlet Knights’ out-of-conference foes this season is 13-31.

For those wondering why a 6-2 BCS team is hovering outside the top 25, this is a major reason why.

THE UGLY Down with the sickness — The Rutgers football team has not been hit overly hard with injuries this year as compared to years past, but that does not mean they completely avoided some sort of sick bug.

Schiano said it is contained and limited to just a few players, but the scar y nature of any sort of sickness is something to be concerned about. With recent outbreaks of confirmed H1N1 virus cases hitting football teams across the countr y, this is certainly something to keep an eye on.

Hungr y like the wolf — Connecticut’s celebrator y tactics were more reminiscent of a gorilla’s mating dance than that of a women’s volleyball team.

After defeating the Scarlet Knights in a closely fought fiveset match, a completely unnecessar y celebration followed — considering they barely staved of f the then-third-lowest ranked team in the Big East.

Being happy is one thing.

Shoving a victor y down your opponents’ throats is a completely different story. Men or women, volleyball or football, there is something to be said for being gracious and classy winners.

As if the fact that he is double majoring in astrophysics and mathematics is not enough of a challenge, MEN’S XC sophomore Ben Forrest also finds a way to represent the wants and concerns of the Rutgers men’s cross country team.

Forrest is one of the two representatives on the team for the Student Athletic Advisory Committee, with the other being senior Michael Crum.

The Jackson, N.J., native jumped on the opportunity that head coach Mike Mulqueen threw out to the team as soon as the position of student representative opened up.

“I felt like I wanted to do something for the team to help them out, and that was just a good way to get involved,” Forrest said.

Since he has stepped into the role, he has helped the team in more ways than one.

As a SAAC rep, Forrest attends a meeting every month with administration and student reps from other sports. They speak about issues such as new policies, academic standards or anything that the teams feel must be addressed and fixed.

INSTABILITY: RU finishes under .500 again continued from back Villanova again the way we played down the stretch, it would be a much different result.”

Reasso did collect his 350th career win at Rutgers in the regular season finale, a 2-1 double overtime victory against USF. Despite the poor results, the Knights qualified for the Big East

If any of his teammates are unhappy with something or feel that an issue needs to be brought up in the meeting, Forrest is their go-to guy.

“I’m very open about if anybody on the team has anything they want to address, they can bring it up to me either in person or send me an e-mail and I can bring it up at the next meeting,” he said.

Being SAAC rep does not only prov i d e Forrest with a way to help the team, but also to BEN extend FORREST that help to the community.

“We run several events such as a toy drive, and we’re part of the Big Chill in the summer,” he said.

Forrest and the other SAAC reps try to get as many student athletes as they can to participate in those community events.

Whether it involves relaying messages from the meetings to his teammates or being actively involved in the community in and around the University, Crum

believes that Forrest fits the role perfectly.

“He tells everybody the information, and he’s very vocal at meetings and lets the opinions of the team be known to ever ybody,” Crum said.

Although it may seem like cross country, schoolwork and being SAAC rep is a lot to handle, Forrest is not fazed by the challenge.

“It’s a lot but it’s do-able,” he said. “It’s not too bad.”

Being able to take on such a challenge on top of the other experiences he has had with the team is something that Forrest thinks will be beneficial to his future.

Soon after graduating, he plans to do some sort of research and eventually go into graduate school.

“I think being part of a team is ver y helpful in a lab situation because you have to know people and trust people and how they think and work,” Forrest said.

But as for his immediate future here at RU, if there were any advice Crum could give Forrest, it would simply be to keep the team first.

“Just always think about what’s best for the team because that’s all that matters,” Crum said. “I think he knows that though.”

Tournament and made some noise with a 2-0 win at West Virginia before falling short at St. John’s.

Sophomore forward Ibrahim Kamara led the team with seven goals. Salmon finished right behind him with six.

RU battled fitness issues as well this season, losing starting goalkeeper Jake Grinkevich for the year six games in. Juniors Aly Mazhar and Chris Edwards and sophomores David MacVane, Gaetano Panuccio and Robbie McLarney all missed some time at one point this

season with injuries, leaving the Knights with a thin bench.

Mazhar and Edwards missed the quarterfinal loss at St. John’s.

“I think that we’re still growing, but we took a step forward [this season],” Reasso said. “We started sophomores and juniors but I still felt like we were very young, and next year we’ll start five seniors and 10 juniors. It’s been a building process and we knew that all along and even though we didn’t take a step forward [against St. John’s], we took a step forward this year.”

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If anyone was looking for a way to sum up the Rutgers men’s soccer team’s season, they MEN’S SOCCER do not need to look any further than the final game of the season.

The Scarlet Knights were what they’ve been all year — inconsistent. A good 45 minutes followed by a poor 45 minutes led to a 30 defeat at St. John’s in the Big East quarterfinals and an end to their season.

“I’d say critical moments,” said junior captain Yannick Salmon when asked what defined the season. “There were a couple moments that turned our season around both up and down. We started out good, but then a moment or two and it started going downhill, and we tried to get it back up but it was too late. I think it caught up with us a little bit.”

RU’s record backs up what Salmon said.

The overall mark of 9-10-0 (5-6-0 Big East) includes quality wins over ranked teams Connecticut and South Florida, yet also consists of bad losses and a long goal-less drought, the worst of those defeats coming in a pair of conference home games to Syracuse and Villanova.

The Knights went into a five-game tailspin where it scored just one goal catalyzed by a dreadful 3-0 defeat to the Orange. The result was one of Syracuse’s two Big East wins this season.

To make matters worse, RU was 5-3-0 and 3-1-0 in the Big East at the time of the loss. By the time they won another game two-and-ahalf weeks later, the Knights fell from first place to seventh in the Red Division.

The Villanova loss, another 3-0 defeat, came in the final week of the regular season with the Knights trying to clinch a Big East Tournament berth.

“If you think about [it,] without those two losses, we’d probably be 11-9 or 11-8 and looking for an NCAA bid right now,” Salmon said. “Instead we were in a position where the only thing going for us was we had to win [the Big East] Tournament and beat teams like St. John’s [on the road].”

Head coach Bob Reasso, who just completed his 29th season in charge of the program, said after the loss to Villanova that it was one of the worst games his team played in his tenure.

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way kids can learn is by letting them play. I think if you let them run it back and play Syracuse and

It may go unnoticed, but it is the reason for George Johnson’s career year: The senior defensive end on the FOOTBALL Rutgers football team watches more film.

It came at the suggestion of the coaching staff, but the increased film study is something that Johnson embraces and directly impacts his play.

“It’s been a long three or four years, but I feel like I’m getting better because I took the initiative to look at more film this year,” Johnson said. “That’s something that the coaches asked us to do. He asked us to look at more film and said it could help us out.

When I do look at film it actually makes a big difference in my play.”

Johnson started all 13 games last season, but through eight games this year, he is already seven tackles and three tackles for loss away from reaching career-highs in every major statistical category.

Junior Alex Silvestro, Johnson’s bookend partner, notices the production and the film work and that it is no coincidence the two increased.

“The kid’s always been a good player, even in high school I remember playing against him,” Silvestro said. “But definitely, I can see this year he’s a little bit more focused, more into it and watching more film, and it shows in his play.”

The other aspect benefiting Johnson’s play this season is his health.

After playing through nagging injuries in his junior campaign, the Glassboro, N.J., native is playing a healthy season — for the most part.

Johnson injured his leg after recovering a fumble in the end zone against Maryland.

It was Johnson’s first career touchdown, but the defensive end does have two interceptions to his name.

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Junior captain Yannick Salmon was second on the Scarlet Knights with six goals of the season. St. John’s eliminated Rutgers in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament.

“They destroyed us,” Reasso said of the losses to both Syracuse and Villanova. “You can’t lose to teams like that, particularly at home. We were playing with just one senior and the only

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T HE GOOD, T HE B AD Most are aware by now that the football team hosts South Florida Thursday night under the lights on national television, but the women’s soccer team is set to embark on what they hope will be an improved navigation through the NCAA Tournament.

Frankly, it’s a joke that the Scarlet Knights got shafted and have to play on the road this coming weekend in South Carolina. Not only was Rutgers — ranked No. 12 in the country to close the season — not given a top-four seed, but it has to play every game away from Yurcak Field against difficult competition.

An opener against Duke, to be played in Columbia, S.C., on the field of RU’s likely second round opponent (South Carolina) only starts the tribulations for this group.

After dealing with injuries to key players throughout the season, Big East Goalkeeper of the Year Erin Guthrie, All-Big East First Team defender Jenifer Anzivino, and a slew of veterans and young talent have a long road ahead of them trying to improve upon last season’s Sweet 16 appearance.

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team pounced all over Sacred Heart and won its season opener 43-0, not dropping a single bout and earning four wins via pinfall.

Last year’s The Daily Targum Coach of the Year Scott Goodale made some interesting moves this offseason — choosing to redshirt talented sophomore Scott Winston among them — but he has the ability and the roster to pull off an unbelievable season.

First place, for now — Basketball season is set to begin, and for the six people that make up the RAC PAC, there is a lot to talk about.

The men’s team is young, athletic, should be able to run up and down the court with ease and finally be competitive in the Big East under fourth-year head coach Fred Hill Jr. Above all else, RU can take solace in the fact that, for at least the first few days, the Scarlet Knights will be atop the conference without suffering a loss.

Big East comes up big — Raise your hand if at the beginning of the season you thought two Big East football teams would be ranked in the top 10 nationally. How about two Big

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The Big East honored senior Erin Guthrie as the Goalkeeper of the Year for her 0.46 goalsagainst average this season. Rutgers opens the NCAA Tournament against Duke.